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June 13, 2008  1:45 PM

What is Unity? Lockheed-Martin’s implementation of a social computing platform wows Enterprise 2.0 conferees.



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, blogging, business, buzzword, CMS, collaboration, communications, community, conference, enterprise, enterprise 2.0, feeds, Google, howto, information, innovation, interesting, invention, Microsoft, Networking, portal, search, search engine, social bookmarking, social networking, social publishing, software, software development, Technology, tool, trend, Web 2.0, Web applications, wiki

One of the unexpected hits of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this past week was a presentation by Lockheed-Martin on Unity, its social computing platform. One of the world's largest...

June 11, 2008  3:56 PM

Video: What is Intellipedia? Burke and Dennehy explain how wikis are being used at the CIA



Posted by: GuyPardon
collaboration, community, culture, enterprise 2.0, geek, government, information, innovation, invention, learning, tool, trend

Download Title Sometimes celebrity is all about context. Stars of film, sport...


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
academics, applications, collaboration, commentary, communications, community, conference, cool, creativity, Development, education, enterprise, enterprise 2.0, event, freeware, history, information, innovation, interesting, interface, Internet, interoperability, invention, learning, open source, productivity, social publishing, software development, spreadsheet

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...


May 19, 2008  10:29 AM

What is the future of the Internet?



Posted by: GuyPardon
academics, Berkmanat10, blogging, books, collaboration, college, commentary, communications, community, conference, conversation, copyright, courses, data, education, election, event, forum, futurism, government, information, Internet, law, learning, Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, wiki

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


April 24, 2008  8:33 AM

Video: Sergey Brin speaks about search, Google, and life at UC Berkeley



Posted by: GuyPardon
academics, advertising, business, entrepeneurship, forum, Google, information, Internet, learning, search, search engine, SEM, video, YouTube

Google's distributed search model is at the foundation of the Internet giant's current dominance in search. In the video below, one of Google's founders, Sergey Brin, speaks at length about his company. You'll need to...


April 7, 2008  4:14 PM

Handy tool: online Binary to Text converter



Posted by: GuyPardon
communications, cool, data, free, fun, fundamentals, geek, humor, information, natural language, tool, useful, Web applications

There are certainly programmers, mathematicians and assorted savants out there who can write and translate directly to and from binary code. I am not one of...


March 13, 2008  10:08 AM

Video: New Features in the Next C++ Standard



Posted by: GuyPardon
code, courses, Development, downloads, free, fundamentals, Google, information, languages, learning, programming, software development, Technology, useful

This Google Tech Talk addresses each of the new features in the upcoming standard for C++. You can read more about them in depth at the Wikipedia entry for the new standard,


March 10, 2008  9:13 AM

Video: FBI can listen even when a cellphone is turned off



Posted by: GuyPardon
applications, Audio, communications, email, government, hacking, information, Mobile, politics, Security, Technology, tool, tracking, traffic, video, YouTube

Fox News aired a report in 2006 that described how the FBI can turn on the mic on a cellphone and eavesdrop -- even if the phone is turned off. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/O61YfvPZGJs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Today's Word of the Day,


February 8, 2008  2:31 PM

Keeping time, from sticks in the ground to Stonehenge to the atomic clock



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
history, information, interesting, science, Technology, time, Uncategorized

I was thinking about time today. Just the usual stuff: how to have more of it, why must it be so ... precise. This all seemed to stem from looking at our definition of atomic clock, as I browsed the database for...


October 4, 2007  10:05 AM

IPTV update: Free classes from UCBerkeley on YouTube; BoingBoing goes to online video



Posted by: GuyPardon
academics, blog, college, cool, courses, culture, free, fun, gadgets, humor, information, Internet, IPTV, multimedia, new media, podcasting, public domain, resource, video

As reported by the AFP, the University of California at Berkeley has created a dedicated channel on YouTube for more than 300 hours of classes and events. Videos include peace and conflicts studies,...