Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004. See also: Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks – McKinsey …
Crypto conference reveals MD5 flaw
An interesting article in MIT Technology Review which comments on how researchers in France, Israel and China have found flaws in the MD5 encryption. An algorithm and encryption that up …
Computer virus Rbot-GR uses webcams
A new computer virus called, Rbot-GR uses webcams to literally spy and snoop at victims. It appears to be capable of turning on webcams and sending images and video via …
Bill Gates challenges Researchers to define the future of software computing
A copy of the Bill Gates speech from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2004 in Redmond, Washington on August 2, 2004. His speech challenged academic researchers from around the world …
W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Edge.org has published an interesting article on the 2000 prescient paper by W. Daniel Hillis titled, “Aristotle”, in which he proposes “The Knowledge Web”. The 2000 paper, covers a similar …
The licensing of code, copy and paste and attribution
Chris Adamson has written a really interesting blog post at O’Reilly (and at Java.net) about the licensing of code in books and also online web articles. Eric Meyer has also …
Dynabook Revisited – a conversation with Alan Kay
Peter J. Bogaards from BogieLand has posted an interesting link to a series of essays by Alan Kay from Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). One of the essays is …
The end of Moore’s Law?
CNet comments on a recent paper titled, Limits to Binary Logic Switch Scaling–A Gedanken Model – by Intel scientists, which suggests that by 2018 it will become extremely difficult for …
Garry Kasparov Vs. X3D Fritz results in tie
The 4th Chess match, where Garry Kasparov takes on the world’s best chess-playing 3D computer program – ChessBase’s Fritz, in a 3D battle has resulted in a 2-all draw.
Go Digital on the BBC World Service
I was up late listening to ABC News Radio and I came across the BBC World Service programme Go Digital with presenter Tracey Logan. The programme is quite interesting, covering …
MIT’s OpenCourseWare lectures notes in Cognitive Science
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures/courses on Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Death of the Book exhibit
The National Scholarly Communications Forum invites you to attend DEATH OF THE BOOK: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING MARCH 7 & 8 (AM), 2003, NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, SYDNEY SPONSORS: …
A Salon article on Netochka Nezvanova
An article titled, The most feared woman on the internet within Salon by Katharine Mieszkowski.
A great Peter Fielding article titled, This Business Brittle
An excellent article by Peter Fielding in ‘Digital Web Magazine’ on planning, collaboration, purpose, and cohesive organization in a web business. It’s titled, This Business Brittle.
WebHead on harnessing the potential of broadband in Australia
A WebHead article on harnessing the power and potential of broadband ::: www.zdnet.com.au/biztech/networking/story