Posts Tagged ‘online’

Via Tech Crunch
by Erick Schonfeld on December 18, 2008

Newspapers are still lurching their way around the Web, a new study finds, but at least they are making some progress. The Bivings Group released a study today that quantifies the Website features of the top 100 newspapers in the U.S. Among the findings: Nearly [...]

Via the New York Times
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: December 8, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — License plates may be coming to cyberspace.
A government and technology industry panel on cyber-security is recommending that the federal government end its reliance on passwords and enforce what the industry describes as “strong authentication.”
Such an approach would probably mean that all government computer [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 07, 2008 - 03:10PM CT

If you think it’s tough to be a blogger because your Google AdWords revenue has been in the toilet lately, the Committee to Protect Journalists wants to remind you that Internet journalist—including bloggers—can and do suffer much more around the world. According to [...]

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By John Timmer | Published: November 20, 2008 - 08:55PM CT

There have been a steady stream of worries about the dangers that Internet use could pose to children, and many have dismissed these worries as overblown parental concern. The latest group to weigh in is the MacArthur Foundation, best known for handing out [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 23, 2008

Critical Media CEO Sean Morgan has some advice for TV broadcasters who are still using $50,000 workstations and a team of professional video editors to upload TV clips to their Websites:
Fire your editor, and here is your username and password.
The password he wants to give them is [...]

Via Mashable
by Doriano “Paisano” Carta

There are countless online spreadsheets and word processors these days, but not too many online databases. Sometimes the best way to work with data is naturally within a database. Managing data in a spreadsheet can only get you so far. Sure, it’s great for number crunching and [...]

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by Doriano “Paisano” Carta

Flowgram is so unique that it’s difficult to describe what it does in a simple sentence. The best way to describe Flowgram is to think of it as a hybrid of online screencasting and presentation. Think JingProject meets Google Presentation or Camstasia meets Powerpoint, but there’s much [...]