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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Google launched its version of integrated real-time search, one of a number of impressive product demos given, at a press event this morning. It’s much better than what Bing and Yahoo! have done, but it’s still just the beginning of a full-scale engagement with the real-time web.
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Internet Inventor Tim Berners-Lee: Unlocking Our Data and Reframing the Way We Use It Together
Tuesday, February 9th, 201020 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Kevin Kelly on the Next 5,000 Days of the Web
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The Internet, the web as we know it, the kind of web — the things we’re all talking about — is already less than 5,000 days old. So all of the things that we’ve seen come about, starting, say, with satellite images of the whole earth, which we couldn’t even imagine happening before — all [...]
Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet Enables Intimacy
Thursday, February 4th, 2010We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules.
How Has Web Design Evolved During the Past 17 Years?
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Since the first websites in the early 1990’s, designers have been experimenting with the way websites look.
Early sites were entirely text-based, with minimal images and no real layout to speak of other than headings and paragraphs. However, the industry progressed, eventually bringing us table-based designs, then Flash, and finally CSS-based designs.
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Ten Revealing Infographics about the World Wide Web
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume and fascinating way.
In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or [...]
Seven Tools to Map Your Company or Your Life History
Thursday, January 7th, 2010f you’ve ever had the urge to write your name in wet cement, then you understand what it’s like to want to leave your mark on the places that define you.
Rather than vandalizing construction sites or tagging your old high school, one positive way to commemorate your life’s path is to map it. Instead [...]
Ten Web Trends to Watch in 2010
Monday, January 4th, 2010While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web next year:
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This Article Will Self-Destruct: Tool to Make Online Personal Data Vanish
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind. College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview. A lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. A legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating, inconvenient or just embarrassing details from [...]
Google Stats
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behavior and technology are changing over time.
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