Video: Jimmy Wales on Google’s Knol
Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, talked to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about Google Knol, a new competitor to the world’s largest online encyclopedia. [kml_flashembed...
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How you can watch the Olympics live online (and what sysadmins can do about it)
After years of buildup, the Olympics are about to kick off tomorrow in Beijing. As Shamus McGillicuddy reports, streaming Olympics video will drain corporate bandwidth. This year’s games are going to...
View ArticleGoogle helps you keep up with the Olympics
These days, Google isn’t just a search engine, though of course google.com is the starting point for most online searches. As Dylan Casey points out on the Official Google Blog, Google has now made it...
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Bizzwords: Business lingo describes the state and style of the information age
Isn’t it amazing how the business lingo of the times reflects the technologies, anxieties and energies of a period? My local NPR station, WBUR, featured a terrific episode of On Point this past June,...
View ArticleVideo: MIT’s OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Algorithms (Lesson 1 and 2)
Thanks to a friendly Creative Commons license, these introductory lectures could be uploaded to Google Video by Peteris Krumins from the host on MIT’s OpenCourseWare website. In his post about them on...
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Chrome: A shiny Web browser from Google may just be the next global platform...
Techies and geeks returned from one last weekend of sun, sand and summer to find news of a disruptive change sweeping the online business world. Meet Chrome, Google’s new Web browser. News of the...
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Joel Maloff on SIP trunking
“For a service that was forecast by Gartner last year to be part of a more than $2 billion market segment by 2011, SIP trunking remains one of those technical phrases used in vendor circles that is...
View Articleg-speak: Oblong brings the “Minority Report” operating system to science reality
William Gibson noted recently that the cyberpunk fiction he’d been writing over the past quarter century has now become science fact. Pattern Recognition and Spook Country are both set in near-futures...
View ArticleWindows Azure video demo
Here’s Manuvir Das’ presentation about Windows Azure, from Microsoft’s 2008 Professional Developers’ Conference: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/AlF4V35U7as" width="425" height="350"...
View ArticleFor Auld Lang Syne — Alex Howard weighs in on tech stories of the decade
Former WhatIs Associate Editor and top-ranked technophile Alex Howard sent us his list of the top tech stories of the decade, bless him! Here’s what Alex had to say: As the year ended, many tech...
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