MyAppleMenu | Tomorrow | Reader | Singapore | Music
You are here in the archive: The Tomorrow Weblog > 2008 > January
by Chris Anderson, The Long Tail
Whether it's pop stars or Wall Street analysts, the biggest misconception of free is that no cost = no value.
by Brad Stone, New York Times
by Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
by Robin Harris, ZDNet.com
Steve Ballmer may be the worst CEO among large tech companies. Put him in a room with Steve Jobs of Apple, John Chambers of Cisco and Mark Hurd of HP and he'd look like the bouncer, not a peer. He just isn't in their league and Microsoft is suffering for it.
by Associated Press
by Louise Story, New York Times
The dispute over an ad is fairly standard, but the video contest raises a novel legal question: Quiznos did notmake the insulting submissions, so shold it be held liable for user-generated content created at its behest?
by Thomas Ricker, Engadget
by Clive Thompson, Fast Company
Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.
by Wall Street Journal
How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world.
by Robert Weisman, Boston Globe
by Bon Sullivan, The Red Tape Chronicles
What's the leson here? Perhaps when you bring in a computer for service, it wouldn't be a bad idea to bring your own drill. Just in case.
by Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review
A new carbon-based nanoscale material could be used to make ultrafast computers.
by John Naughton, The Guardian
The study confirms what many are beginning to suspect: that the web is having a profound impact on how we conceptualise, seek, evaluate and use information.
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
by Alex Iskold, ReadWriteWeb
What are the pros and cons of working from home?
by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com
Peer-to-peer technology has gotten a bad rap for years, but a grop of internet service providers led by Verizon Communications is working to harness the technology to reduce network traffic and speed up video downloads on the web.
by David Chartier, Ars Technica
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
A new product lets workers combine simple bits of software to create buisness tools.
by Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
by Chris Soghoian, CNET News.com
While I've spent the majority of this blog post describing potential illegal acts by Slate, the real criminal here is the U.S. Congress for passing the DMCA, and in one single act, putting hundreds of computer security and cyberrights activists at risk.
by Sramana Mitra, GigaOM
by Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica
by G. Pascal Zachary, New York Times
Whether humans will embrace or resist an innovation is the billion-dollar question facing designers of novel products and services. Why do people adapt to some new technologies and not to others? Fortunes are made and lost on the answer.
by Anna Pickard, The Guardian
by Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
by Neil McAllister, InfoWorld
Following its buyout by open-source-happy Sun, will MySQL founder or flourish?
by Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
by Bruce Schneier
Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people — and attracts the most criticism — is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home.
by Gordon Haff, CNET News.com
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
A Silicon Valley startup bypasses Windows to start computers faster, getting people online in seconds.
by Gordon Haff, CNET News.com
by Robert B.K. Dewar and Edmond Schonberg, STSC CrossTalk
by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
by Matthew Creamer and Abbey Klaassen, Advertising Age
by Dominic Rushe, The Times
by Joshua Zumbrun, Washington Post
It's the internet's fault thtat the writers had to go on strike, so surely the internet will come through in our moment of need and satisfy our hunger for pre-crafted dialogue. That's only fair, right?
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
I don't want my 21st-century software life lived within the ugly vestiges of the 20th century.
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Metaplace builds a different architecture for virtual worlds.
by David Pogue, New York Times
by Matt Richtel, New York Times
The Consumer Electronics Show displayed the hope of the industry: televisions connected to the internet and ready to receive new forms of entertainment on demand.
by Paul Krill, IDG News Service
Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in an interview being made public by the Linux Foundation Tuesday, stressed that version 2 of the GPL (GNU General Public License) still makes the most sense for the Linux kernel over the newer GPL version 3.
by Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
by Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
by Ken Auletta, New Yorker
Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics.
by A VC
by Steve Outing
Tens of millions of people were treated to an example of print media's slide toward irrelevance this morning.
by The Economist
What NetSuite's flotation says about the software industry.
by Robert Scoble, Scobleizer
So, this is a company you want to trust your private details to?
by Marc Wagner, ZDNet.com
by Mike Coon, Mike On IT Stuff
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
Microsoft has largely succeeded in getting a PC into the home, but its effort to put a server there will be an uphill battle.
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
Televisions need to have an Ethernet jack on the back (or wireless connection) right next to the coax, HDMI, and all the other connections to sources of programming. And they need to be able to play any bit of video anywhere on the internet.
by Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
by Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
by Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
In 2007, life online continued to meld with life offline.
by Michelle Quinn, Los Angeles Times
After decades as the computer of choice for homes and businesses, the desktop PC is being pushed to the scrap heap by its smaller, nimbler sibling: the laptop.
by Susan Kinzie, Washington Post
Berkeley's on YouTube. American University's hoping to get on iTunes. George Mason professors have created an online research tool, a virtual filing cabinet for scholars. And with a few clicks on Yales web site, anyone can watch one of the school's most popular philosophy profesors sitting cross-legged on his desk, talking about death.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.