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A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet. More here: www.elasticspace.com/2014/05/internet-machine
Amanda Hess, Why aren’t women welcome on the Internet?
Matter in Matter (San Francisco, USA, 11 I 2014), cover by nerosunero
April 16, 2021- Buffalo, NY- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation establishing the first-in-the-nation requirement for affordable internet for qualifying low-income families, as proposed in the 2021 State of the State. This legislation requires providers operating in New York State to offer $15/month high-speed internet to low-income families across the state. New Yorkers qualifying for this affordable internet program include households who are eligible or receiving free or reduced-price lunch, supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, Medicaid benefits, the senior citizen or disability rent increase exemptions, or an affordability benefit from a utility. It also requires providers to report to the Public Service Commission annually on their offers and uptake. (Darren McGee- Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo)
People using computers in an internet cafe in Kampala, Uganda. Photo: Arne Hoel / World Bank
Photo ID: Hoel_030311_P3111065
Eben Bayer, Co-Founder and CEO, Ecovative, Maisie Devine, Co-Founder and CEO, Poacht, Umang Dua, Co-Founder and COO, Handy, and Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes, participates in the "Inside the Minds of Millennials: Lessons from Successful Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Tech Entrepreneurs" session on the YP Stage on Day 2 of Internet Week New York May 19, 2015. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He
I was invited to spend two days at Europe’s most comprehensive IoT Event. This leading forum focused on case studies that show today’s Industry and Enterprises leveraging IoT technologies to transform their business through creating value and efficiencies.
The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters,[16] automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.[18] Legal scholars suggest to look at "Things" as an "inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service". These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include home automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air purifiers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Christopher Mikkelsen, Founder and CEO, Refugees United, Matthew Irwin, Business & Government lead, Mapbox, Jessie Mooberry,Vice Director, Uplift, Syria Airlift Project, and Mary Pilon, journalist, and author of "The Monopolists" participate in the "The Future of Humanitarian Innovation and Technology" session in the Classroom on Day 2 of Internet Week New York May 19, 2015. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He
The 'mobile internet'- ie accessing the internet from a phone, as opposed to a PDA or laptop- is very different to the 'traditional', browser-centric internet. I'm a heavy mobile data user (it goes with the territory, use what you analyse...) and I'm finding that applications- particularly web 2.0 apps like RSS- are much more useful on a phone than browsers. Apps either make life easier (RSS means I don't browse as much to find what's changed) or enhance what I'm doing (location tagging via zonetag) or are simply cool (changing phone wallpapers via pulsepaper).
So, in the 'what's in my bag' theme, here's a quick 'what's on my phone'. These are all running in the background most of the time, but I also use Lifeblogger (for retrospecive flickr uploads with better textual content but no geotags) and Google maps (excellent).
These are all beta releases, and fairly data hungry, so you'll need an unlimited data plan (like this one from my employer ;+) [other suppliers are available, but not many have unlimited data]
Shameless plug- if you like the look of widesets (and I'd highly recommend it) please drop me a message so I can reccomend you- they're running a competition for a Nokia N93 and my N70 is getting a bit tired and needs replacing)
“With Web 2.0, we’ve come full circle to the early promise of the Internet and what made it great in the first place. If Web 2.0 represents community and social collaboration on a grand scale, then in many ways we’ve simply gone back to the Web 0.0 future.”
Bob Greenberg, CEO and global CCO of R/GA | AdWeek
A revisit of the Lego 6613 Telephone Booth from 1986. It has become an Internet Hotspot for the Friends theme. The bike has been replaced by a Segway.
This is a photo of my sparkling reflection photo on the Flickr website that I photographed on a laptop screen. It's the meta meta self-referencing virtual reality of the internet - the technological metaverse simulation of time/space reality.
World's first IRC server, which used to be in University of Oulu computer "museum" (just a display behind a glass wall, really). The things aren't there anymore (or weren't last time I went past the place), I haven't yet bothered to find out where they are right now. Probably in a better place. A slightly crappy picture because it has a beam that mostly (you can see a bit of it if you look carefully) covers the most odd feature of this thing - Apple logo. (Which is odd because, as everyone knows, this is a Sun server.) I have a better pic, I'll probably put it here soon.
I have 73 Phones total, but one isn't pictured. It is a Black Samsung M510 from Sprint.
I have phones from the following carriers:
AT&T / CINGULAR
SPRINT / NEXTEL
VERIZON
VIRGIN MOBILE
BOOST MOBILE
ALLTEL
TRACFONE
NET 10
QWEST (Ran off the PCS Network...Verizon bought their cell network, but continue to offer great phone and Internet services...)
I used to have a few T-Mobile prepaid phones, but sold both of the ones I had...it seems T-Mobile is popular on eBay!
Also pictured on the right above the Motorola C139 Tracfone is a car phone. Commnet Cellular (http://www.commnetwireless.com/) looks like it provides mobile phones abroad the US.
Any feedback or comments are welcome!
Thanks!
Nathan
Ebbene si! Dopo tanto tempo sono riuscita a tornare nel World Wide Web!!
Stare inerme senza internet per quasi un mese...mi ha forgiato nel profondo!!
Ma nel frattempo le idee sono andate avanti e tra non molto vi mostrerò il nuovo progetto a cui sto lavorando, insieme all’ insostituibile e fondamentale collaborazione di StolenMoments.
Qui di seguito il link del suo sito!!
:D
Se la Biblioteca di Alessandria era l'emblema della nostra ambizione di onniscienza, il Web è l'emblema della nostra ambizione di onnipresenza; la biblioteca che conteneva tutto è diventata la biblioteca che contiene qualsiasi cosa.
Alberto Manguel, La biblioteca di notte, 2006
Years ago I used to only use Google to do internet searches. Slowly but surely though Google has been taking over more and more and more of my computing life. This is not a bad thing, this is a good thing. Google makes things that make my life easier and their corporate values are more in synch with my own than most publicly traded companies. I've especially noticed in the past six months that the trend of Google taking over my computing life has accelerated dramatically. This could have to do with the time I've been spending on Buzz, but some of the changes (like changing my internet browser) have involved big chunks of my computing experience.
Below is a loose chronology of the evolution of my experience with Google Products.
1. Search (can't remember exactly when, but years ago), got off Yahoo pretty early in the game and switched to Google. Google has the best search on the web today. I appreciate Google's more open nature than other search engines and their better track record when it comes to keeping the web uncensored.
2. Blogger. Used Blogger since 2003. Abandoned Blogger for WordPress last year, mostly due to Blogger's inability to deal effectively with comment spam.
3. Google Analytics. Still use this. It's free which is good. I've never really gotten what I want and need out of this product though. It's complicated to build things for me. The two most important things I want from a stats package are the number of page views and referring url information. My view I'm most interested in is the past 24 hours. Before Analytics I used Sitemeter. I liked Site Meter's analytics product much more, but you have to pay for that and Google Analytics is free.
I get the sense that Google Analytics is a bit like Photoshop for me. You can do anything and everything with it, but I'm still only using about 2% of its true potential.
4. Google Docs. I'm a lightweight user of word processing and spreadsheets, so this works just fine for me. Replaces the need to buy expensive software from Microsoft to do this sort of work for the casual user like me.
5. Google Maps. I used to use Mapquest and Yahoo Maps. Now I use Google Maps exclusively. It's the best mapping software on the web. I use it *very* heavily when traveling.
6. YouTube. Like everybody I'm on it. I rarely use it though. Occasionally I'll consume content on it. It takes so much time to watch YouTube videos though. It's probably the internet site that my kids use more than any other site on the internet though. My son Jackson has spent hours on there learning how to do Yo Yo tricks. One of these days I'm going to have to get him a Google Yo Yo. Actually I just ordered him a green one and a yellow one. He'll love them. :) I used Google Checkout to buy them from Google (not sure why the shipping charge is more than the yoyos though).
7. Google Earth. I don't use Google Earth a lot. I find it a bit unweildy actually. But I do use it to do the geotagging with Geotagger for my photos.
8. Gmail, part 1. Unfortunately I was late to the game with Gmail. So alas, I'm thomashawk22 instead of thomashawk. I got a gmail account and then never really used it. A few years back though I was getting so much spam email that I began filtering thomashawk.com email through gmail first to filter out all of the spam. That worked tremendously well. My spam pretty much went away entirely overnight. So I was using Google gmail as a passive filter for my Mac mail reader for about 2 years. Part 2, later.
In the past six months.
9. Google Buzz. Buzz has really become my primary social network. I still use a number of different social networks (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed), but Buzz now gets the bulk of my social networking time and attention. One of my favorite things about Buzz is that it shows photos *really* well. You can feed your Flickr feed into it and if people click on the thumbnails they blow up huge to get an easy big view. There's a link to Flickr included that I can cmd click to go fave the photo on Flickr too.
The majority of my faves that I'm faving on Flickr these days are coming from Google Buzz. If you haven't hooked your Flickrstream up to a Buzz account yet you are missing out. :) Even if you aren't going to use Buzz, don't have time for another social network, etc. You should still at least hook up your Flickrstream to it so that people can see your Flickr photos there and get back to your stream via Buzz.
10. PicasaWeb. I've had an account on Picasa for years, but just never really used it. I've started using it much more though. Presently I'm maxed out my free storage there so I'm just using it to host small sized screenshot files and deleting my larger high res photos as I need space. I've thought about paying the $5 to buy more ($5 is really totally insignificant for me to pay) but I need Picasa to convince me as a product first why I should do that.
If Picasa had photostreams and SmartSet technology I'd totally pay. But as it stands today, it's too much work organizing my photos there manually without SmartSets and it feels to me like the photosharing community is still very much at Flickr. I do use the service though almost daily to host my screenshots.
11. Google Profiles. I like having a profile page on Google and look forward to seeing them continue expanding this product. You can find my Google Profile here.
12. Google Chrome. After a rocky marriage with Firefox for many years we finally split up a few months ago. Google Chrome is just a far better, faster, more stable web browser.
13. GMail, part 2. I haven't opened my Mac Mail application for about a month now. I've been consuming all of my email directly from gmail on the web. Mostly it's just faster to do email this way. So now it is not only my passive spam filter, it's my main mail application that I use to consume all of my email.
14. Picnik. Probably technically not a Google Product yet, but acquired by Google recently so I'm including it. I just bought a Pro account there for $24.95 for a year. I did it just because I was curious about what you could do there more than anything. I don't think I'll renew it after my year is up based on what I saw. I didn't really see anything there that I can't already do in Lightroom or Photoshop. But for someone who doesn't want to spend the money for Lightroom/Photoshop, this seems like an excellent way to go. You really can do quite a bit for $25 a year.
I need to play around with Picnik a bit more though. Maybe it will grow on me. Google should consider giving away the Pro version in Picasa to get more people on there.
15. Google Calendar. After using 30 Boxes for many years I switched to Google Calendar. Not sure why really. 30 Boxes was working just fine. I think I like Google Calendar better. I like how now that I've synched it up with my iPhone that I get a little notification from my iPhone calendar 10 minutes before I've got an appointment.
16. Google Chrome URL shortener. this is kind of a minor little tool. Not a product really. But I love it so much that I wanted to include it. You just click on a little icon in Chrome and it automatically copies a shorter url to your clipboard. :)
The future.
So what's next for me in terms of adopting Google products. I'm not sure exactly but here are a few ideas.
Android. I suspect that when my contract with AT&T ends in July that I'll likely switch to a Google phone of some sort. They seem to be ahead of Apple right now, are a more open company. And I can't stand how poor AT&T's 3G network is in San Francisco.
Chrome OS. This will be an interesting one. Switching your OS is huge. It took me years to get off Windows and on to my Mac about 5 years ago. Overall I'm pretty happy with my Mac. Still I paid over $3,000 for my last MacBook Pro. Chrome would seem to make computing cheaper. I don't know enough about Chrome to really blog about it, but if I can install it on my MacBook Pro when it comes out (later this year?) to check it out I definitely will. Apple's OS is pretty damn solid though, so I think this switch for me will be a harder one.