I am pleased to announce that today we are welcoming the Pownce team and technology to Six Apart. Pownce launched in June of 2007 and opened to the public earlier this year, but, as mentioned on the Pownce blog Pownce.com will be closing in the next few weeks.
Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October ...
I think when you read it, it will turn your hair white. It did me. In fact, I don't think it's overstating it a bit to say that unless this case is overturned, it is time to get off the Internet completely, because it will have become too risky to use a computer.
Searching the Internet exercises the brains of older people by activating their neural circuitry. Internet searches activate regions in the brain that control complex reasoning and decision making, the Center found in a nine-month study of 24 neurologically normal volunteers, with similar education levels, ages 55 to 76.
The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn't mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past
Facebook's new web sign-in platform has officially launched today. Facebook users will now be able to log in to a number of sites (including Digg) via their Facebook identity. Data will be swapped between Facebook and other services.
Yahoo is hoping to steal a lead on rival Google in the nascent mobile search and advertising markets, having lost the battle for dominance in the desktop computer search market, and is spearheading its European efforts in Britain.
The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms. The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.
How to conduct 'guerilla testing' to perfect usability.
With founder Jerry Yang out at Yahoo, a Microsoft-Yahoo partnership is set to happen, sources say. The deal will bring Yahoo much needed capital and income, while providing Microsoft the Web property it needs to better compete with Google.
A human flesh search engine is where thousands of volunteer cybervigilantes unite to expose the personal details of perceived evildoers and publish them on the Web. The consequences for those on the receiving end often transcend the virtual world and can include loss of employment, public shaming, even imprisonment.
Basement hackers and amateur mathematicians are competing to improve the program that Netflix uses to recommend DVDs — and to win $1 million in the process.
The terrorists in Mumbai might have committed inhuman acts, but in at least one way, they are just like you and me. When authorities cut the cable feeds to the hotels where the terrorists held over 200 hostages, they relied on another piece technology to monitor the police response and the world's reaction to the attacks: BlackBerrys. Commandos wer
In today's technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers trying to explain and influence human behaviour, as Stephen Baker explains in his new book The Numerati.
Nicole Wong and her colleagues decide what the world can see on YouTube. Are they also determining the limits of free speech?
Nokia's smart technology will allow to run a bath using your mobile phone.It is the stuff of science fiction: house lights, ovens, televisions and even security systems that can all be remotely operated and controlled at the touch of a button. A new type of smart technology from mobile phone maker Nokia looks set to turn that fantasy into reality.
Many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread botnets.