Back in 2004, we started hearing the words “Living Room Convergence.” This was a marvelous idea that one day all of our data would be easily accessible through a computer,…
The New Face of Employment: Freelancers
Since the 2008, market failure and the subsequent problems following it, the face of employment has changed drastically. Employers are trying to develop new ways to lower the cost of…
Trends in Gaming: Steam and Free to Play Games
In light of the recent issues in the economy, many game companies have paired up with the online game distributor, Steam, in order to get their games to a wider…
Clickjacking: What is it and How You Can Protect Yourself?
Lately, there has been a lot on the news about this type of computer attack called “click-jacking” where, through the use of web pages, hackers are cheating people out of…
Evolution occurs at such a lightning-fast pace on the World Wide Web that almost nothing maintains dominance for very long. Things like Google as a search engine and Flash as…
Usenet: The Outsiders Guide to the Internet’s Oldest Community
Anyone who has used the internet for more than five years has heard at least once of this thing spoken of in reverent tones called “UseNet.” The problem is, once…
Distributed Computing: What is it and What is it Used For?
A trend we hear about now and again, mainly in relation to some rather large mathematical projects is ‘distributed computing’. Distributed computing is when you take a large task and…
In the late 1980’s, early 1990’s, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) of the US began to see how the Internet could become a significant player in the nation’s defense….
A Race to the Top: Streaming Video Services Battle for Top Place
Recently, it appears that the entire race has been with streaming video as an entertainment choice for most tech-savvy people on the planet. Netflix has been the trusty old friend…
Standing Triumphant: What we can Learn From the Fall of Citizendium
Wikipedia is more than just one of the largest and most popular web sites in existence. It is also a major source of evolution of our understanding of many important…
Autism and the iPad: A New Route to Communication?
Over the last year or so, a “quiet revolution” as the parents of autistic children are calling it, has emerged. iPads and their applications are starting to offer new routes…
SOPA – The IP Hammer Has Swung
The rise of the Internet as an intractable piece of the global social engine has brought with it a number of large scale societal problems. One of the ones that…