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« Previous EntriesLifting Corporate Fingerprints from the Editing of Wikipedia
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Last year a Wikipedia visitor edited the entry for the SeaWorld theme parks to change all mentions of “orcas” to “killer whales,” insisting that this was a more accurate name for the species.
There was another, unexplained edit: a paragraph about criticism of SeaWorld’s “lack of respect toward its orcas” disappeared. Both changes, it turns […]
Understanding Zipping and Unzipping Files
Friday, August 8th, 2008So you’ve just finished a download, and now you have a cryptic ".zip" file sitting on your hard drive. You’ve heard of Zip and WinZip, but no one has ever explained it to you. What do you do now?
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Online Collaboration Technologies–New Tools and Web Services
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Tokbox: Web-based application lets you have video conferences with your friends
SeeToo: Select a video on your PC, and watch it simultaneously with your friends
SnapYap: One-to-one free video conferencing room allows you to have free video-audio calls with your friends
TeamViewer: Free downloadable application allows you to share your screen and control anyone else’s PC
FlickIM: Web-based instant […]
Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 96
Friday, July 18th, 2008Vawker: Create your own room and have video conferences with your team
FileCrunch: Upload and share any file up to 250 MB via a sharing link
Soashable: Meebo open-souce clone lets you connect to major instant messaging networks
EasyVoipRecorder: Record and export in multiple formats any VoIP conversation
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IBM Gives Five Predictions for the Future
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Drained by your commute? Blood-sucking utility bills got you down? Wondering if that tomato in your dinner salad was really organic?
The cures to those ills and more may arrive within five years, according to IBM.
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Wikis: Inciting Collaboration
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Think of a wiki as a natural extension to the blogging concept, a classification-centric medium which allows for a freedom of content manipulation across a community of users that can’t be found in any other comparable technology. By engendering enthusiasm and commitment from every user, the wiki can become the perfect tool for the […]
Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 79
Monday, July 14th, 2008ADrive: File hosting service gives you 50 GB for your files, and lets you share them with anyone
SnapYap: One-to-one free video conferencing room allows you to have free video-audio calls with your friends
MyMapChat: Google-maps based web-site lets you chat with people and groups on a world map
Palringo: Multi-client mobile chat application enables you to chat, […]
Online Collaboration Tools and Resources: Kolabora Picks No. 83
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Beam It Up: Compress your music, pictures or videos, and share them with a text message
ScreenStream: Free downloadable software allows you to show your screen to other people
Ulteo: Run OpenOffice online, and share your editing sessions in real time with anyone
Centericq: Text mode multi-protocol instant messenger connects you to major IM services through a simple […]
Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine
Monday, June 16th, 2008At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Donald Norman was previewing a scene about to be re-enacted in living rooms around the world.
He was playing with one of this year’s hot Christmas gifts, a digital photo frame from Kodak. It had a wondrous list of features — it could display your pictures, send them […]
No Guarantees When It Comes to Web Privacy
Friday, June 13th, 2008"Can people really tell what I search for over the Internet? You may be searching from the privacy of your home, but when it comes to just about anything online, there’s no guarantee of privacy.
Your Internet service provider may know about the controversial group you just researched. Your search engine may know about the divorce […]
