• dotMobi Tool Shows Mobile Viewing Quality of Popular Internet Sites

    dotMobi, the company behind the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced the availability of the .mobi mobile emulator. Users can now find out if their favorite PC-oriented Websites are ready for mobile viewing by visiting dotMobi’s homepage or http://emulator.mtld.mobi. “The .mobi emulator is a great tool for trademark holders. It…

  • Steve Irwin on Heggle

    Heggle is a ‘video aggregation’ site similar to a ‘news aggregation site’. You can search this system for a topic like ‘Steve Irwin’ and it will come back with all the videos on all the video sites about this bloke. http://heggle.com/search?t=steve+irwin&c=0 And yes, Irwin was a totally embarrassment and I do agree with Germain Greer…

  • Crap Movie Downloads

    A couple of companies have began offering movie download services in Australia. There are also a few international services, however I don’t trust them because you have to sign up and pay for their service, before you can actually see what movies that they have (which I’m not sure is legal). And the reason that…

  • What is the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force?

    In its fourth year, the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, made a substantive contribution to the preparations for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society by sponsoring several regional meetings, organizing a series of global forums, producing several publications and participating…

  • Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?

    The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language…

  • 30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China

    I am not sure how accurate this claim is; that 30 000 police monitor Blogs in China, but it is form the Guardian, which is a pretty reliable if not at times a predictably narrow publication. When will big Western media realise that the Cold War is over and it is now safe to take…