Internet
Web 2.0 Selects
Monday, August 4th, 2008Since the dawn of web 2.0 (the term was coined in 2004 though the phenomenon it describes has been around for longer) there has been an explosion of internet tools aimed to facilitate information sharing and interaction among end-users. All in all, the choice is amazing.
Unfortunately, it’s not a given that in [...]
Betting on Networking
Sunday, April 13th, 2008The internet is a vast, mostly unexplored jungle that’s expanding rapidly with each passing day. Users all around the world go online to send email, chat, meet other people, watch multimedia, play games, catch up on the latest news, etc. But although the internet itself is global and its content (baring censorship) is [...]
The Ironies of Life
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Senario: You’re walking down the streets of Tokyo without a cellphone, and you need to make a call. How do you locate one of the dying remnants of a bygone era: the public pay phone?
Well, fear no more. This website conveniently maps the location of over 17,000 pay phones in the Tokyo metropolitan [...]
Around the Web
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Interesting websites are easy to find but harder to remember further down the road. Here are a few that I stumbled upon recently:
COLOURlovers: Describing itself as a “resource that monitors and influences color trends,” this site allows users to upload pallets “essentially combinations of colors” for other users to download. Never have to [...]
Local Flavor
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Reading back through my last few months of entries, I realized that I’ve lost touch with what’s happening locally. Maybe that’s why the Washington Post keeps sending me advertisements asking for my subscription…. But joke aside, I really haven’t been doing all that much around the WMA this fall. Somehow I intend to [...]