Submitted by eacastel on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 12:04
Just today I was thinking what the next thing would be, what the next Facebook would look like. Perhaps not a competitor but a new generation of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg did not coin the phrase "man is a social animal" it was Aristoteles. If the main motivator for human beings is living in society then our society is really being
The web as a social function.
bandwidth, activities
Submitted by eacastel on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 16:34
By Emilio Castellanos
We are entering times where mobile geolocation will change our concept of privacy. Whether we embrace it or become afraid of it and how it is regulated greatly depends on how we choose to use it or abuse it.
Privacy has become more elusive since the internet era. Personal information posted online on social sites along with information collected through webcam services, street cameras, records stored by financial companies, etc., is all susceptible to be intercepted by 3rd parties.
However privacy issues become even more critical when we consider the mobile device: it contains a chip which constantly broadcasts your whereabouts. This locator has been monitored by government agencies since 2005 (FCC's E911) and is now standard on all new mobile phone models. Some devices will emit a signal even while turned off.
Submitted by eacastel on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 20:24
New Mintel report shows online Hispanics adopting new Internet technologies fastest
March 25, 2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As Internet technology spins ahead, US Hispanics are clamoring to stay on top of the latest and greatest in online communication. A new report from market research firm Mintel shows that online Hispanic adults are quickly surpassing other demographic groups in acquiring new online communication skills.
Submitted by eacastel on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 14:52
Mobile phones and laptop computers are closer to merging into one single device, through advances in microchip technology and user preference. Some people shun the idea of having a multipurpose device but phone, camera, and music may soon live together in harmony in the mobile internet device (MID) as companies like ARM, Intel and Apple, search for new ways to make mobile devices more efficient and powerful.
Submitted by eacastel on Fri, 01/11/2008 - 03:49
The world wide web might be living an evolutionary leap with these bridging applications
What is a widget, really?
The web is becoming a widget. You heard it: “build us widgets!” should be the cry to battle of any web savvy organizations. But what exactly is a widget? What is their intrinsic purpose? How can they be monetized? Turns out that what started out as an exercise in coding, might well take over and transform the world as we know it. It already has.
Perhaps coined from the word used to describe a mechanical contraption or a ‘gadget’, when widgets sprung up, someone was smart enough to baptize them with a generic name: in essence, widgets are compact and modular interactive programs similar to web applications, or short snippets of code, that are used to produce a desired result, whatever this might be. They can do anything. Typically, for a program of this sort to be called a widget it needs to live outside of its original environment, thus it could even be called a third party application.
