We know, posting rules of etiquette on the Internet does no good. It is, after all, one big anarchy, and most of you will go off and do whatever you very well please, and thumb your nose at the nannies who don’t like it. But, well, we have this expression we call the “social web”, [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
In case you webmasters out there haven’t noticed, more and more of your web audience is using a small-screen, hand-held device to visit your websites. Now, if we know anything about web designers (and we know several), we know that they tend to curl up, moan, and rock in their Aeron chairs whenever you tell [...]
With Australian Internet users up in arms about the prospect of mandatory Internet filtering by the government, we thought this would be a timely subject. The purpose of this article is to show what Internet filtering is, and also why it isn’t the best solution to the problem of illegal content online. It is [...]
All this fussing around about typing on keypads or using a stylus or frobbing buttons… why can’t we just use our voices? Can’t we carry on a conversation with the computer? In the words of the HAL 9000 from the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey: “I’m sorry, Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t do that.” [...]
It’s only been in the past five years or so that we’ve seen the social web revolution roll out. And sociologists and psychiatrists should be watching with interest, because there’s a gold mine of research just lying around waiting to be scooped up. One effect we’ve noticed is the herd mentality. Sites like Digg, [...]
In March of this year, according to the official Mozilla blog, Mozilla has celebrated its tenth birthday. But the story of Mozilla’s most successful product, the Firefox web browser, goes even further back into the history of the web itself. And brings it surprisingly close to other web browsers that it competes with – not [...]
Despite the best anti-virus software, despite having firewalls and IT professionals to guard your workplace, and despite all the updates to browser software, the number one path of infection for malware continues to be the web browser. People who use the Internet at work especially need to be aware, because they are ricking their [...]
Hello, and welcome to your first day on the social web! Do you want to be popular, make lots of useful contacts, have a good time, and be the toast of the social web? then don’t do any of these: 1. Ask a question before searching. We swear there’s going to be a brain scientist [...]
Handling images on mobile devices is almost the first thing you think of as soon as you get a phone or a camera. You’ll want to take pictures of the kids and send them to grandma, and pictures of yourself to post to your online profile. You’ll want an avatar for your online forums, perhaps [...]
