Archive for the “Hi tek” category
Quote of the Week
by jpreardon on July 8, 2011
There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. They brought the whole sideshow of the (…)
Risk Meets Foursquare
by jpreardon on June 29, 2011
Care for a giant game of Risk? Enter World of Fourcraft, which uses Foursquare to turn the five boroughs of New York into a sort of virtual board game. Looks like a good reason to start checking in with Foursquare (…)
NextTrain Crowdsources Subway Tracking
by jpreardon on June 23, 2011
The NYCMate application (available for iPhone and Android) has a NextTrain feature, which uses phone data to predict subway arrival times. It does so by analyzing when its users lose signal when going underground. According to this article, the system (…)
Trying to be everywhere…
by jpreardon on June 13, 2011
A while back, Bits had a post about taking a step back from the constant connectedness. I especially like comment number 2: “Trying to be everywhere means being nowhere at all.” So true. While I have no scientific evidence, it (…)
Friendster Purge
by jpreardon on April 29, 2011
Remember Friendster? Of course you do. If, by chance, you have any old photos on Friendster, you might want to download them soon. Friendster is going to delete old posts and photos, permanently. For me, this serves as a reminder (…)
iPhone Tracker
by jpreardon on April 21, 2011
For a few months now, your iPhone has been storing your location data and transferring it to your computer when you sync. You can view this data with the handy and open source iPhone Tracker. Getting this sort of information (…)
Diaspora* in the Times
by jpreardon on May 12, 2010
Diaspora* got some ink today in the New York Times. Who new they had a publicist already? This will spark even more interest in what looks to be a great project. Let’s hope they can keep this momentum going.
Diaspora*, the open source social network
by jpreardon on May 11, 2010
It sounds like the call for an open social network may get answered soon. Diaspora* seeks to be “the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.” There seems to be plenty of interest out there for this (…)
Has Facebook Gone Rogue?
by jpreardon on May 8, 2010
Facebook? Rogue? Ryan Singel, on the Epicenter thinks so. In his post, he calls for an open alternative: It’s time for the best of the tech community to find a way to let people control what and how they’d like (…)
Farmville and Addiction
by jpreardon on December 6, 2009
Farmville is the most popular application on Facebook. With over 70 million monthly active users, more people are playing Farmville than using Twitter. I think Twitter should fold before everybody realizes that the whole tweeting thing is a bigger waste (…)