Twitter is now “out of this world.” On May 12, 2009, one of the space shuttle astronauts sent the first tweet from space:
From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!
Mike Massimino had been twittering for about a month about his [...]
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Tweets from Outer Space
Posted in Blogs/RSS, Trends, Wireless Communications on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Perfect Cell Phone by Dvorak
Posted in Handhelds, Trends on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since I first heard about the cell phone being “the” device we’ll all use, I’ve always been sceptical. I’m not comfortable with the form factor for doing things other than making phone calls and, although I use it for Internet and texting, it isn’t easy. John Dvorak has ideas of what it would [...]
How Fast is Google Chrome?
Posted in Browsers, Fun, Internet, Research, Trends on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Check out some of these experiments! Using both Google Chrome and Javascript, programmers are showing us how fast and flexible this browser really is. As you’re playing with some of these experiments, consider how quickly it responds to your mouse/input. It’s very much like having an application installed on your computer — except that it’s [...]
CNN’s Hologram
Posted in Fun, Trends on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although we’re being told that this wasn’t exactly a hologram, it looked like it to me. I was clicking through news channels the evening of the Presidential election and actually caught this segment live. My mouth dropped:
Was it necessary? Probably not. Was it cool? Definitely! Could it have been cooler? Sure [...]
T-Mobile G1 Phone
Posted in Handhelds, Software, Telecommunications, Trends on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Most people may recognize this as the “Google Phone” — or at least the phone everyone thought Google was going to make. Instead, Google created the operating system — Android — for this phone, called the G1. T-Mobile is the first to use this operating system for a real phone. We should see other cell [...]
Live Mesh and The Cloud
Posted in Internet, Telecommunications, Trends on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cloud computing has started to make the rounds. The idea of having everything available to you no matter where you are is very appealing. Your email is on one server, your files on another, your favorites on another, your company’s files on another, your back-up on another. Everything could be “in the cloud” — at [...]
Top Ten Techie Traits
Posted in Internet, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML, XML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I couldn’t resist this one, even with #10 staring at me. Roy Tennant has pulled together the top ten traits for any techies today. If you’re looking to get into or stay in this field, I’d say he’s hit the nail on the head!
The ability to speak simply and directly about technical topics, either without [...]
Catalog Interfaces Getting Better
Posted in Catalogs, Searching, Software, Trends, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When the North Carolina State University Libraries integrated their library catalog into their website, I was excited. Why do we move our patrons to a different interface just to search our collections?
Now, other libraries are following suit and, thanks to Roy Tennant, I’ve seen the cleanest implementation yet at Villanova University. Only four tabs in the [...]
More Tech Words Into the Dictionary
Posted in Trends, Web 2.0 on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merriam-Webster has added a few more technical terms to their dictionary. You can now find:
webinar
malware
netroots
pretexting
fanboy
The key for including new words:
M-W says it picks the new dictionary entries only after it starts to see the words used over time without explanation or translation.
Good to know that these words are starting to become part of our vocabulary. [...]
