Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy
We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. Tags: communication, Facebook, Internet, Social, Stefana Broadbent, Technology
The power to connect the world
Hector Ruiz talks about his commitment to giving the whole world access to the Internet. Ruiz is the CEO of AMD, and through AMD’s 50×15 initiative, Ruiz and his company hope to connect 50 percent of the world to the Internet by 2015. Sharing his own extraordinary life story, Ruiz makes the case that access [...]
The Web in 2012
A panel on the future of commerce, journalism, and community on the Internet, featuring Barry Diller (fox/e-commerce), Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark (social media/Craigslist) from the 2007 New Yorker Conference. In a closer look at this webcast it was interesting to see the differing perspectives of Barry Diller and Craig Newmark. Diller argues that professional [...]
The Web’s Secret Stories
Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web — so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. Here he presents “We Feel Fine,” a project that scours blogs to collect the planet’s emoti(c)ons, and the “Yahoo! Time Capsule,” which preserves images, quotes [...]
There’s Innovation Ahead
The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush, and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos offers historical evidence showing how similar they were: from the riches made by pioneers to the media hype that attracted luckless speculators. But a better analogy can be found in the early days of the electric industry, he says. [...]
