Archive for the 'Shaping' Category
Yesterday, the Google News team announced the beta launch of Living Stories, a platform that aims to provide a new way for users to consume news. The prototype blends Google technology with content from the Washington Post and New York Times.
According to Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager at Google News, “The idea behind Living [...]
Brian Solis has authored an op/ed aimed at redefining “how startups (not solely tech companies) view and define early adopters and the ‘echo chamber’ in order to gain momentum in order to ‘cross the chasm’ to the next tier of evolution, adoption, and monetization.”
Reading through the article I couldn’t help but reflect on the value [...]
Everyone Makes Mistakes
I have been using Yahoo! mail for about 8 years or so and was a little surprised to see an error message when I attempted to log-in this afternoon.
Personally, I like the informal tone of the message and I have absolutely no doubt that the alarms are literally “blaring in the basement” right now. Also, [...]
Here is a brief history of the Internet in bullet list format:
DoD develops ARPANET, the first operational packet switching network.
Several networks merge and TCP/IP become the approved protocol of ARPANET.
ISPs start springing up along with Usenet, e-mail, other peer-to-peer and peer-to-many apps.
Hypertext springs up and we see the World Wide Web emerging along with Web [...]
Shaping of Technologies
Driving in to work this morning, I was suddenly struck by the complexity of communication technologies when an NPR host began reading through a set of e-mails she had received as part of the show’s programming.
NPR has what I feel to be, one of the premiere Web sites fueled by audio programming. They stream [...]

