The huge amount of public anticipation and scrutiny of their activities is not going to be particularly helpful.
Fragments, factions, and turf warfare may force Digg to accomodate greater personalization of content.
The conflation of advertising and augmented reality.
Five percent of malformed data packets on the internet cannot be explained - they cannot be traced to tampering or software and hardware glitches. Is this evidence that the internet is evolving…
Interesting research is emerging that explores new programming models for mesh connected mobile devices. The experimental language called AmbientTalk is a prototype based object oriented language…
Tantek is fighting an uphill battle in his quest to rid the world of email. Email is ingrained, ubiquitous, and everywhere. Every person that regularly logs on to Hotmail or Gmail contributes to this…
Antisocial Networking couldn't have popped up at a better time for me, as I was actually sitting here, struggling with nascent suspicions about the nature of the XFN microformat. I've been designing…
There's a lot that could be said about emerging products like RedTacton: Using a new super-sensitive photonic electric field sensor, RedTacton can achieve duplex communication over the human…
Concerns about privacy are a subset of what we should be concerned about.
"Copyright law is fundamentally inconsistent with the nature of networks, which seek to replicate any information presented to them."
Surprisingly, the global shipping network has never been mapped, despite estimates that 90% of the world's trade travels across the oceans.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. - John Gilmore Interesting recent developments in the ongoing war of perception. Now, Australian ISP's are refusing to take part…
Personal branding - building online equity through ones own internet identity - has become a prime movement in the recent trend towards renegotiating the conventional relations between employer…
The carpet has been pulled out from under our feet and the new web is a very different place to what we were used to. On Friday morning at Webstock, eager conference goers were subjected to several…
Sometime in the next 30 days, the telecoms firms of the world will have reached a new milestone - three billion subscribers. About ten percent of that number are customers who have multiple accounts,…
People are starting to wise up to the distortions of bubble math surrounding the recent rush of interest in socially oriented websites steaming ahead under the banner of Web 2.0, but it is interesting…
Are Google and Facebook obliterating the web?
New research finds that the historical background of Google’s PageRank algorithm is richer than previously suspected.
“We decided what MySpace would become. They set up a social networking platform, but we as users decided to use it as a music platform.”
Several friends recently introduced me to a game (which we later found out wasn't new as we thought). It's very simple to play: pick two Wikipedia articles, and try to jump from the first to the…
Recently, I've been talking a lot about freeing the internet in Wellington by spreading excess bandwidth from various 'net connections across a city-wide mesh. But this is a best case scenario compared…
The future lies in making networks happen. Last month, respected security technologist Bruce Schneier explained why you would want to share your Wi-Fi bandwidth. It's not nearly as wrong as it sounds. To…
This week I've got an interesting side project, working as a mentor with a group of MCS students who are learning agile methods the useful way - by actually working on a real project. Our team…
I can't believe they're still arguing about this... it's the year 2005, can we really take the idea of investment and competition in copper wires that seriously? As if theres going to be incentive…