Sneakers, a 1992 film, correctly predicts the impact of the world wide web
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2011
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In January of 1992 I started college at Western Michigan University and was immediately drawn to the recently released  WWW project by Tim Berners-Lee. I was in the right place at the right time, with the right mentor, Dr. Reza Rashidi: a visionary mathematician, computer scientist, NeXT computer expert, and lot more. Luckily, I got [...]


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Roger McNamee on the future of the internet & technology
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Nov
2011
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What an odd way to separate text
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Nov
2011
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Do your eyes play tricks on you as they do mine? This is rather strange. Why on earth would they do this? The text jumps all over the screen! Share


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Google's new voice
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Oct
2011
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Google has been adding more cutesy/folksy/playful verbiage to their sites, and no example is more apparent in their new Google Docs dropdown. Users are allowed to set spacing of lists, and while words like "tight, loose, small, medium, large" would work, they don't feel right. Instead Google gets downright cute. They use words like "Comfortable, [...]


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New Facebook ticker brings innovation to scrolling
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Sep
2011
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Facebook has unveiled a new "ticker" which appears in your news feed. It's a scroller box, with an innovative scoller. Roll over the area where the scroller is and it appears. Click it, and you'll grab it (notice it does NOT turn into a hand) and you can scroll it up and down. Note that [...]


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