Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Esteemed online voices @LeoLaporte and @DaveWiner are sounding the alarm about Twitter’s increasing platform dominance. “It’s a very dangerous network because it’s all centralized,” Winer said. Both critics have installed their own smaller, open-source micro-messaging systems outside of Twitter’s domain, i.e., Evan Prodromou’s Laconica. read more | digg story
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
Please Stand By by Steve Gillmor Facebook is counting on the same relative inertia that Twitter has so carefully cultivated. The calculation is that 175 million people are less likely to move away from something than they are to wait and see what is going to happen. For the advanced user, an open Facebook stream [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Stephen Wolfram announces that Wolfram Research will soon be releasing Wolfram|Alpha, a computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms. read more | digg story
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Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Chris Heath
What separates average Linux users from the super-geeks? Simple: years spent learning the kinds of hacks, tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment’s work. If you want to get up to speed without having to put in all that leg-work, we’ve rounded up over 50 easy-to-learn Linux tips to help you [...]
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