have iphone, but not att? no problem
A 17 year old from Glen Rock, NJ has hacked the iPhone so it can be used with carriers other than ATT. All you need: First, an iPhone. Of the sshed and jailbroken variety. Also, kill commcenter by...
View Articlereviewing twine
Read/WriteWeb has a review of a new application by Radar Networks called Twine, which was announced on October 19, 2007 at the Web 2.09 Summit. The company describes Twine as “a revolutionary new...
View Articlemicrosoft values facebook at $15 billion
They beat out Google, pay $240 million for a 1.6% share.
View Articleseinfeld does hp
The graphics in the new HP commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld are incredible.
View Articlewetpaint macs wikis
Via Common Craft, WetPaint has created a series of video parodies to advertise their easy to use wiki service. WetPaint uses a WYSiWYG for editing, which seems to be less awkward than the one now being...
View Articlekindle
Via Geoff Carter on the techrhet list, Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose talking about the Kindle: The device is getting the full media blitz, most notably the cover story in Newsweek, claiming that it is The...
View Articleorbitz offsets carbon
Saw this as I was booking a flight this morning. Orbitz and Carbonfund have partnered to provide travelers with an easy to use widget to offset the carbon generated by their national and international...
View Articlenetvibes announces ginger
Netvibes, the RSS reader and information ecosystem that I have been using with my students has previewed ginger (to be released in January 2008), which has the much needed feature of social networking...
View Articlepangea day deadline a week away
The goal of Pangea Day is to unite the world through the visual power of short films. Submit your own by 15 Feb 2008 at http://www.pangeaday.org/.
View Article(re)searching google
The March 2008 edition of Harper’s arrived today, and in it is a wonderful example of how internet technologies are not value neutral. Ginger Strand’s annotation "Keyword: Evil" (which Harper’s has...
View Articlemapping and tagging web 2.0
My graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities is currently working its way through Richard Landow’s tome, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. This is my...
View Articlemapping blog posts worldwide in real time
ReadWriteWeb recently had two posts on information visualization. Marshall Kirkpatrick addresses the question of information overload by looking at how new visualization media are adapting from gaming...
View Articlecoo-el: cuil to challenge google
Search engine developer, Anna Patterson, who designed search technologies bought by Google has launched her own search engine meant to rival Google: Cuil (the article says Cuil is pronounced “cool” but...
View Articleturning a profit with web redesign
I’ve been telling students for years that 99% of the future of web design is redesign, which is why the major project in my web design course is redesigning a large-scale web site. Looks like two...
View Articleon trolling
This past Sunday the New York Times Magazine had a story by Mattathias Schwartz called “The Trolls Among Us” (or, of you look at the title of the HTML document and not the story, “Malwebolence: The...
View Articlecurrent tv and twitter partner to tweet the debates
Al Gore’s TV network, Current, has joined forces with Twitter to Hack the Debates. Twitter users watching the debates can send a tweet with the additional extension “#current” which will be scraped for...
View Articleobama buys ad space on xbox 360
Josh Marshall has confirmed that the Obama campaign has bought add space in the game Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 platform. A screen shot: Gigaom reports: “I can confirm that the Obama campaign...
View ArticleApple Introduces New Laptop Wheel
via briancroxall Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
View ArticleNYTimes Exposes 2.8 Million Articles in New API
Via ReadWriteWeb, the New York Times has announced the release of 2.8 million articles with 28 searchable fields in an new API (Application Programming Interface). Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb...
View Articleusing web 2.0 in the writing classroom
Before the spring semester started this past January I was interviewed by Eileen Stutzbach for Rowan University’s Techcast—a video podcast that showcases what is happening technology-wise at Rowan. I...
View Articlewordpress releases version 2.8
Building on their prior release, which they called Coltrane, WordPress 2.8 is named Baker after Jazz legend Chat Baker. I really enjoy how they are equating blogging and jazz. See video for the many...
View Articlehow to prevent and fix loss of recording time on a flip ultra video camera
As you know, students in my Writing, Research, and Technology sections are using Flip video cameras to create video oral histories and other short video essays. We are using Flip Ultra cameras (non-HD,...
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