The thing that could change everything may not be a smartphone, contrary to what most technology pundits think. Instead, it may be an incredibly simple PC operating system from Google where everything is stored in the cloud. Released late last week as open-source beta code, Chromium OS (the ‘generic’ open source name of what’ll eventually [...]
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Brilliant stuff: Read It Later Firefox extension
There are so many applications that facilitate saving and sharing bookmarks that it seems almost trite to mention yet another one. But Read It Later does some clever stuff and meets a very specific need for me, so I thought I’d pay it forward. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that places a little [...]
Brilliant stuff: Readability bookmarklet
Despite our best efforts in web design and HTML standards compliance, articles can be very difficult to read on today’s rammed-full websites. The New York Times and the Huffington Post are just two examples of essential content bordered and permeated by visual clutter: video advertising, animated ad banners, endless lists of links to other articles, [...]
The Art of Community – free ebook download
Jono Bacon is the community manager for Ubuntu, the open source Linux operating system that’s finally starting to give Windows a run for its money when it comes to consumer-readiness. He’s recently published what appears to be an interesting, practical guidebook for building and managing communities. There are chapters on planning, building, measuring and governing [...]
More K’Naan goodness – free download
“I sometimes channel Robert Nesta up above.” I had mentioned in my previous review of K’naan’s work that there was more than a little Marley in his voice and words. Now teamed with J.Period (DJ/producer for Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Kanye West, Q-Tip and Mary J. Blige), he drops the first three tracks of a [...]
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Carsten Knoch
Software and services professional, attentive music listener, vision enabler, instigator, reader of books and the web, vegetarian, affordable audio hobbyist, thinker, writer, blogger, tinkerer, Internet dweller since 1992. Human being since 1970.
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