My friends at OneRiot and Adaptive Blue are organizing the second annual Add-on-Con . It is being held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on Dec 11. If you are involved in a company that makes browser add-ons of any sort, this conference is for you. The conference is a full day of discussions about the browser and browser add-on market. The closing keynote is on the future of the web...
YouTube via ComputerHistory "[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of...
IIW IX, the 9th Semiannual Internet Identity Workshop is underway at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. At each meeting, I'm usually surprised by the emergence of one or two topics and pleased to see continued moves toward...
LOS ALTOS, CA (MARKET WIRE) ThreatMetrix, the market-leading provider of device identification software for preventing online fraud, today announced it's been named a finalist for a 2009 Emerging Technology Award from the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. ThreatMetrix was chosen as a finalist for the Security category after a comprehensive evaluation of local companies and technologies by the...
They say life begins at forty. As we stand at the cusp of the semantic Web, that adage certainly holds true for the Internet. Related posts: Study: Internet sex offender stereotype very inaccurate No Internet access to sex offenders in New Jersey Half of Internet users pay a monthly bill online
French Internet guru Henri Kaufman has been the first one to express to me this idea: Twitter will kill emails. Now this is the very serious Wall Street Journal that writes about it . Micro blogging, Twittering, or Instant web, whatever you want to call it represents indeed a revolution. Freshness becomes the most fundamental value of the information. That's clear. Since I am twittering, and even...
This very night forty years ago, two computers in California communicated creating the first "internetwork". Below is the log entry detailing the 'host to host' connection between UCLA and SRI (Stanford). Read more at The Computer History Museum . Or enjoy this video from National Geographic .
Why do we today celebrate today--October 29--as the Internet's 40's birthday ? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time--and crashed. Here is what happened: The first network had four nodes, the first at UCLA, and the second at Stanford Research Institute. The other two--at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University...
Cyrus Farivar is running a panel discussion tonight in San Francisco, celebrating the 40 years of the Arpanet. 8 seats are still available as I write this post: 40th Anniversary of the Arpanet October 29, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. On that day, a small unknown laboratory at UCLA unleashed a force that has since spread to every corner...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (MARKET WIRE) Will Durst, renowned comedian and satirist, will open "Media Predicts: 2010," the annual gala dinner produced by PRSA Silicon Valley in partnership with the Computer History Museum where top tech journalists predict what they expect to be hot -- or not -- next year.
This is cross posted on the IIW Blog Regular Registration ENDS NEXT WEDNESDAY – October 28th at Midnight. Prices go up $100 after that. The Internet Identity Workshop #9 Tuesday – Thursday, November 3-5 in Mountain View, CA Computer History Museum Please blog/tweet about the conference. The hash tag is #iiw , our twitter handle is @idworkshop Proposed Topics [...] Related posts: Internet...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DiVitas Networks™, the leader in Mobile Unified Communications (Mobile UC), announced today that its President and CEO, Vivek Khuller, has been honored with an Asia America Multi Technology Association (AAMA) award at this year’s 30th Anniversary Gala reception that was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on Thursday, Oct. 1st, 2009....