October 20, 2008 – 5:23 pm
Google’s reliable presence is woven so tightly into our daily experience of the Web that its infrequent failures feel like seismic events. What? Some Google service doesn’t respond? Has there been a rupture in the space-time continuum?
- Salon.com’s review Google’s Vulcan death grip of Randall Stross’ new book Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan […]
September 18, 2008 – 2:03 pm
Kids these days are preferring to spend their time on social networking sites instead of surfing for naughty pictures on the internets. The research of author Bill Tancer who is the General Manager of global research at internet data and statistics company Hitwise has shown that:
Social networking sites are increasingly eclipsing pornography consumption over […]
September 4, 2008 – 3:42 pm
Remember though, it’s all LOL until Google reveals itself as a worker for the spawn of Satan.
(via Rocketboom)
Stalking
What used to be stalking is now called social networking. Welcome to the Internet.
- Zack Shapiro
I’ve taken a couple of days to process Telstra’s presentation the other day of a working example of a hologram.
On one hand I love it because it is Star Wars cool.
But on the other - I can’t help but think about the current situation of mobile phone black spots and broadband uncompetition as well […]
Forget the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon now we have a game that puts te internets graetest resource to work: Six Degrees of Wikipedia.
All you have to do is choose two topics that you want to calculate the degrees of separation of links between the topics on Wikipedia and the algorithm does the rest.
We’ve […]
Photo Credit: RoboBoogie
Apple fans who have been patiently waiting since February last year yesterday got a glimpse of their future second home when this giant banner went up on Apple’s flagship Sydney store at 77 King Street which according to SMH is expected to open at 6pm on Thursday, June 19 and is rumoured to […]
A UK shopping centre is using the signal from its customer’s mobile phones to monitor people in the building.
The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around.
- via Times Online
This uber level of customer surveillance will […]
Mr. Bush stopped e-mailing when he entered the White House, citing security worries, and the Oval Office does not have a computer in it. via NY Times
It seems unimaginable that anyone could exist in a level of power like the US Presidency without at least some information flow coming from the web and its tools […]
Here is something for the buyers of the upcoming Australian release of the iPhone. You can go back to the ye olden times of a rotary dial when making a call.
Ummm…it looks kind of cool but would have to be freaking annoying as it would be much slower than just pressing the numbers on the […]
Parody of the Macbook Air advertisement
Remember when Tom Cruise was using his hands to control the the user interface of his computer in the Minority Report? ‘Twas fan-freaking-fantastic!
Well, now you can have something similar at home:
Microsoft has an enticing alternative to the Surface called the TouchWall—a rear-projection system constructed from just a few hundred dollars worth of readily available hardware. […]
Users of the Firefox web browser can now install a filter which eliminates Youtube comments that contain Excessive punctuation!!!????, spelling mistakes, lack of capital letters to begin a sentence and ALL CAPS. Nice.
Now, can we get a filter for every www irritation? Kthxbye.
(found via The Stumblng Tumblr)
It seemed like it would never happen. But the unimaginable has occurred, the “Jesus Phone”, Apple’s iPhone is finally coming to Australia. Yay!
Vodafone has announced that they’ll be selling the iPhone in Australia later this year. Thankfully Apple will be adopting a more open strategy for selling the iPhone than they did when it launched […]
This is pretty Get Smart if you ask us which is why we like it. A military grade encrypted thumb drive that will self destruct if an incorrect password is entered 10 times.
Full details at the IronKey site https://www.ironkey.com
(found via Think Geek)