Black Ops at the Grocery Counter

01.12.04 @05:42

Wired has an interesting article about the Grocery Manufacturers of America looking for dirt on Katherine Albrecht, founder of consumer activist group CASPIAN.

Its good to see the spirit of J Edgar Hoover lives on, I am just waiting for ...

A Fountain of Knowledge

01.04.04 @00:10

From IEEE Spectrum: The great strength of computers is that they can reliably manipulate vast amounts of data very quickly. Their great weakness is that they don't have a clue as to what any of that data actually means. Computer ...

Revolutionary SmartPaper Electronic Media

12.11.03 @23:06

From a recent (Dec. 10, 2003) Gyricon press release: Gyricon LLC has announced release of its first commercial application of SmartPaper technology: SyncroSign Message Board. The product launch took place at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a subsidiary of ...

More room to wax Google

11.05.03 @11:34

I don't think the AO Poll could give us enough choices to choose from, so here is the forum to say what you think the title of Tony's new book should be. I'll start:

• Googlemania
  
• When Google Hits the Fan
  
• You Google ...
  
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  Googling Google

  11.05.03 @00:01

  Tony Perkins is writing a book about Google and he wants you to be a contributing editor.

  I have just decided to write a book about Google. When I finished my last book, The Internet Bubble, with my brother Michael, I can remember thinking, "Damn! I’ll never do that again!"
  
  Writing a book is a very painful ...

  
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  Does network-centric mean thin-client?

  10.17.03 @16:23

  There is a certain deal of positive aura that surrounds the current models for network-based software. Suddenly the appeal of 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE guys increases with the current concern about the application security and persistent concerns about the application stability. Some even ...

  
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  The Future of Search

  10.15.03 @16:14

  As the haystack gets bigger, we need better ways to find the needle.

  It's interesting how search suddenly got to be one of the hottest Internet businesses. David Krane from Google likes to tell a story of Larry and Sergey's visit to some major Internet players before settling on their own project. Back ...

  
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  AOL's Broadband Play

  09.18.03 @20:20

  Now that the real AOL has its name back, what is their plan? Jonathan Miller, Chairman and CEO of America Online, explains how consumer behavior is driving his broadband business model.

  Recently I was walking on the streets of New York City when I overheard a moment of conversation between a woman and her preschool child. The mother said to the child, "What would you like to eat?" The child said, ...

  
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  Social Networking

  09.15.03 @12:55

  Now that we are all on the network, it is time to figure out how to best leverage this incredible set of connections.

  Mark Granovetter's seminal paper, The Strength of Weak Ties (summary), revealed the difference between friends and acquaintances and how useful acquaintances can be for certain tasks like finding a job. The difference between a strong tie and weak ...

  
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  How big can your social network be?

  09.09.03 @10:35

  The stronger the tie, the greater the latent potential to information to flow through it, the greater the trust between two nodes and the greater the social capital.

  Much ado has been made about the phenomenon of fake characters on Friendster (Fakesters). Some users complain that it is an essential earmark of Friendster's emerging culture. But these icons are more than artistic expression they serve as ...

  
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