I subscribe to a crap ton (that’s a scientific measurement, right?) of RSS feeds. Admittedly, I struggle to keep up with all of them. It takes…
OPLIN 4cast #502: Future shock… just sharing the joy
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Posted in 4cast, Facebook, and predictions
I subscribe to a crap ton (that’s a scientific measurement, right?) of RSS feeds. Admittedly, I struggle to keep up with all of them. It takes…
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What’s all this stuff we’re hearing now about bots? To be more precise, the buzz lately has been about chatbots, which seem to have stolen…
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Many things in life are not easy for blind people, and the internet is certainly one of those things. Screen reader software has never been…
As we all know, the Internet contains a lot of bleak and nasty stuff, and some of the bleakest and nastiest is child pornography. For…
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Facebook and Google are both involved in ambitious and interesting projects to economically expand Internet access to some of the most remote areas on earth…
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Last week, Facebook launched Instant Articles, putting entire news stories from nine news organizations inside Facebook’s mobile app where people can read them rather than…
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Ever heard of social WiFi? Well, we know that using any password to authenticate users of a WiFi network, even a simple one posted on…
Many public libraries have active Facebook accounts, and many of them originally joined Facebook in an effort to connect with their younger library users. But…
There are a lot of companies providing services on the Internet that have lately decided they need to make your “web experience” more personal. Yahoo!…