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August 7, 2008  4:31 PM

How you can watch the Olympics live online (and what sysadmins can do about it)



Posted by: GuyPardon
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After years of buildup, the Olympics are about to kick off tomorrow in Beijing. As Shamus McGillicuddy reports,

June 27, 2008  8:42 AM

Have you got your avatar yet? Gartner says you will.



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
business, culture, futurism, gaming, immersive 3D worlds, interactive media, multimedia, new media, participation, predictions, social networking, virtual reality, virtual worlds, Web 2.0

lara-croft.jpgIt's 2008. Do you know where your avatar...

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June 10, 2008  12:16 PM

What is enterprise 2.0? Cloud computing proponents mix with social software vendors in Boston.



Posted by: GuyPardon
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The question of creating an agreed upon definition for enterprise 2.0 continues to come up here on the Boston waterfront, as hundreds of software executives, CIOs, software vendors, media and curious technologists mix and...


April 23, 2008  8:46 AM

Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Often the title of a video alone raises an eyebrow. Today's video selection certainly does -- it's a presentation from two tele-immersion labs, one at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the...


March 6, 2008  2:35 PM

Video: Twitter in Plain English



Posted by: GuyPardon
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CommonCraft.com is already well known in the blogosphere and social media world for creating brilliant, lucid short videos that explain tricky concepts. The two-person team that make up CommonCraft (

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September 12, 2007  10:21 AM

A-Space and Intellipedia: Spy agencies go all Web 2.0



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
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Birds do it, bees do it... Well, ok -- that wasn't true. Birds and bees aren't getting into wikis and social networking yet but almost everyone else is. Even spies are all over it. Last year the feds launched a wiki for the 16 US intelligence agencies (Did you know there were that many? I didn't.)...


August 15, 2007  2:13 PM

Got a minute? Create (or edit) a solar system at Galaxiki.



Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~ Carl Sagan

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May 10, 2007  10:29 AM

The Encyclopedia Of Life: An individual Web page for every species of life on Earth



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Can you imagine a comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia that documented and described every living species known to humankind? If scientists succeed in a new, boldly conceived project, such a dream might become reality. Meet the Encyclopedia of Life (


April 23, 2007  4:13 PM

AssignmentZero: Wired applies crowdsourcing to journalism



Posted by: GuyPardon
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Welcome to "pro-am journalism," "an attempt to bring together professional writers and editors with citizen journalists to collaborate on reporting and writing about the rise of crowdsourcing on the Web. Inspired by the open source movement, the goal of


April 23, 2007  3:45 PM

Twitter: Microblogging mashed-up with moblogging and presence technology



Posted by: GuyPardon
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A new messaging service has gained some real traction in the blogosphere and offline among the "digerati," though to be fair most of those coders, writers and futurists are rarely truly offline anymore. Just look at how often they are creating...