Renaissance 2.0
Everyone’s talking about Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web these days, but I think a more accurate name might be Web3D because the future of the internet will involve more 3D virtual reality and the metaverse. The internet will continue its natural evolution of becoming increasingly more visual and interactive. Artificial Intelligence will also become…
You can now build powerful and sharable databases online for free thanks to websites like Zoho. You don’t even need any special database development experience to create online databases that you can access any time from any browser. You can build it and store it online and even export the data to a spreadsheet if…
All of the web 2.0 pundits and so-called experts are predicting another bubble burst like what took place in 2000 when the dot com phenomenon came to a cataclysmic end. Who is to say for sure what will happen for sure? In order to predict the future it is always wise to examine the past…
People are not always as they appear online. The internet makes it so easy to be something different than we are in reality. I’m not talking about the wild extreme examples of people pretending to be the other gender or things to that effect. I’m referring to the more common situations where people tend to…
Top 100 List of the internets First Registered Domain Names The history of domain names is an interesting and unique one. The first domain to ever be registered online occurred over 20 YEARS ago! Symbolics.com is credited with the first domain name. After a quick Whois check, the domain was registered on March 15, 1985….
“Triumph of the Nerds” (1996) is my all-time favorite documentary on computers or technology ever! I remember the first time I watched it and how informative, entertaining and inspirational it was to me. I was still a break and fix technician and I recall being extremely inspired to do more with my career in I.T….
Quick! Tell me the difference between a widget and a gadget! Who makes which one and how are they different? BUZZZZZ! Time’s up! I can’t explain it very well either. Here is what I do know about these twins that were separated at birth. Some work only on the web, some only work on Windows…
In honor of Steve Jobs’ keynote speech today at MacWorld 2008, let’s watch Pirates of Silicon Valley ! One of my favorite geek movies! Noah Wyle (ER) is an excellent SteveO and Anthony Michael Hall (Sixteen Candles) is a good Bill Gates. Sure, the writers took major liberties with the truth, but it’s still great…
I don’t know how or when this started, but I’ve always had a strange morbid fascination with the famous last words of people and I’ve always wanted to know whether certain celebrities or historical figures were dead or alive. Yes, I know, very weird. Thanks to the web, satisfying these odd curiosities have become extremely…
EarthClassMail was NOT invented by Al Gore but I bet he might love using this service! In a nutshell, Earth Class Mail is a service that will scan every piece of mail you receive and sends the image to your email account to review. If you know it’s junkmail then you tell them to shred…