Archive of 'November, 2010'
I don’t want to poop on anyone’s parade. I’m not the anti-Techrist or the diginazi- but I do have concerns about how much humankind depends on technology. From making friends, finding love to parallel parking the tech boom we’ve blasted through over the last decade has moved much faster than we’ve had time to get used to. This has undoubtedly affected our brains. We are exposing our grey matter to a highly-evolved environment and asking it to do things for which it hasn’t had the chance to adapt.
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Thanks to Apple not allowing Flash on its iPhones, iPods and iPads, Adobe has made way for Silverlight, which is now installed on nearly 60 percent of all connected devices around the world, offering access to .Net, COM, WCF and able to run on the Mac OS, Linux as well Moonlight. Microsoft developed Silverlight to create its own RIA market and as blogger Robert Scoble claimed upon its initial release: “Microsoft rebooted the Web”.
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The search engine wars continue and now we have Blekko.com at the frontline. In a digital world dominated by Google users, Blekko.com may become a force to be reckoned with, namely with its unique “slashtags” feature which promises the most relevant of searches yet. For instance, if you type in global warming/liberal you will get a list of all the most relevant liberal sites which talk about global warming. As a blogger, I think this will help a lot in research, narrowing results, and eliminating all the spam sites that rank based only on keywords. But like other search engines before it, Blekko doesn’t aim to kill Google.
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