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August 19, 2008  12:42 AM

Bizzwords: Business lingo describes the state and style of the information age



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Isn't it amazing how the business lingo of the times reflects the technologies, anxieties and energies of a period? My local NPR station, WBUR, featured a...

August 1, 2008  10:29 AM

Video: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC's Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor...


June 18, 2008  12:21 PM

What is social computing?



Posted by: GuyPardon
buzzword, commentary, enterprise 2.0, social, social bookmarking, social networking, social publishing, video, Web 2.0, Web applications, word meanings, YouTube

Brian Kellner, NewsGator's Vice President of Products, offers his take on "social computing."  [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/GdFs9UJMxm4" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]


June 10, 2008  11:26 AM

What is a social spreadsheet? Dan Bricklin and SocialText combine wikis with workspaces at Enterprise 2.0.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, a maker of enterprise wiki software, announced the launch of a new social spreadsheet at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. In his presentation to a packed hall of technology...


June 5, 2008  10:12 AM

Video: What is cloud computing?



Posted by: GuyPardon
business, buzzword, cloud computing, commentary, conversation, event, forum, Google, the cloud, trend, video, Web 2.0, word meanings, YouTube

Sure, WhatIs.com has a definition for cloud computing. And our director has posted one of the best...

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May 21, 2008  11:26 AM

What is the origin of Linux?



Posted by: GuyPardon
commentary, Development, fundamentals, history, invention, learning, Linux, open source, operating systems, programming, Technology, video, YouTube

In the embed below, Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, "tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open...


May 19, 2008  10:29 AM

What is the future of the Internet?



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Do you think much about the future of the Internet? Last week, the academics and technologists...


May 12, 2008  9:46 AM

Video: Richard Stallman talks about the importance of free software, GNU, copyleft and open sourcing



Posted by: GuyPardon
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In these videos, Robin Good interviews Richard Stallman about free software and the


April 18, 2008  9:46 AM

Wireshark helps you to determine if your ISP is throttling traffic



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Download Squad to the rescue! The popular and useful downloads blog from Weblogs Inc. posted about a utility that can help you monitor your own network.


April 18, 2008  9:16 AM

Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Net neutrality



Posted by: GuyPardon
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You might remember this fellow -- he invented the Web, after all. Sir Tim Berners-Lee offers some thoughts on the issue of Net neutrality in this video. [kml_flashembed...