Did I say big? This seems big. While Google's last attempt at social, Orkut, might have been a flop everywhere except Brazil, the Google+ Project is making Facebook look old and stale. Web 2.0 gave us the database-driven webpage and the launch of the social web. Sure, we had AIM, IRC, and tons of other social interactions on the web each day but Web 2.0 made it even larger. Web … [Read more...]
Google, Once You Go Black… Navigation Bar
Google has rolled out a new all black navigation bar across the top of the search engine's major sites like web, image, and video searches, Google News, Google Maps, and Google Calendar. So far, Gmail and YouTube seem unaffected by the change. The change goes from black text with white background to a black background with grey text and white text for the focused … [Read more...]
The End Of The Camera Focus May Be Upon Us Thanks To Lytro’s Light Field Technology
Lytro is a new company that is bringing years of academic research to the consumer electronics market. Their big break-through is related to the digital camera and allowing you to define where you want to focus of the image to be after the picture is taken. Remember when you learned with modern cameras how to do that half-button press thing so the focus will grab what you're … [Read more...]
ICANN Votes In Big Changes Coming To Domain Names
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted in a pretty big change to domain names at its special session held in Singapore today. They have voted to allow registries to buy and control the top-level domains, or TLDs. Typical TLDs include .com, .net, or .org but after the vote, individuals will be able to apply to run a wide variety of what they want. … [Read more...]
A Rough Road For Bitcoin – Largest Exchange, Mt. Gox, Reports Leaked Account Info and Huge Sell-Off Initiated
At the end of March, I first wrote about Bitcoin, a virtual cryptocurrency with no central management by design. When I wrote about it, you could buy a single bitcoin for about 80 cents. Since then, the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed to $30USD and stabilized around $16USD as more services and merchants are starting to accept the currency and speculation puts the currency in … [Read more...]