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Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

Living and Creating Online: Part 1

May 18th, 2008 Comments

An interesting phenomenon has been happening with my life recently. I’m moving a ridiculous amount of data online. Just look at the sidebar of this blog to see all the data I have online that is publicly available to anyone. You have what products I am interested in buying, what I am reading online, photos [...]

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The Chasm Will Never Be Crossed

May 18th, 2008 Comments

A recent blog post on technology adoption made it’s way to me. The premise of the post is the idea that technology is starting to become so ubiquitous that youth are accepting technology without any hesitation or any great caution.
Ummm, no. This is the same sort of theory that has been passed around from generation [...]

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The Rise of the Generalist

May 13th, 2008 Comments

Recently Steve Rubel posted about What’s the Future Like for a “Renaissance Man” in a Connected World?. In this post he discuses how even though we would think that with the internet an individual could have broad knowledge about the world, instead people specialize in their particular area of expertise. He then says that he [...]

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Soon We Will All Be Stalkable

May 13th, 2008 Comments

Sorry for the lack of posting over the last few weeks. I had finals and yeah that is ’nuff’ said. Something interesting has been occurring over the last several weeks though with regards to Facebook. I now have just about the entirety of my family whom I communicate with me on Facebook, even my mom [...]

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Daily Links April 9th, 2008

April 10th, 2008 Comments

Lots of news from Yahoo in it’s efforts to fight off the takeover offer from Microsoft.

Yahoo announced they will go through a two week trial period outsourcing their search ads to Google
News Corp is in talks to join with Microsoft in it’s takeover offer for Yahoo
AOL and Yahoo are looking at joining their internet operations

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