BusinessWeek magazine published an intriguing article in the June 2, 2008 issue. Beyond Blogs updates outlooks and predictions they made back in 2005 about blogs, social media, and other bleeding-edge web technologies. Stephen Baker and Heather Green, two BusinessWeek writers, compare and contrast the tech trends from 2005 to 2008. Three years have radically changed the way the main stream media and companies view the power of ...

TechCrunch, a technology blog, recently released figures on the most used applications and websites by early adopters of technology based on data from Y-Combinator. RescueTime,a productivity application, documented the most used desktop applications and website applications from 30,000 users. Below is TechCrunch's table of the top 20 used apps and websites. The percentages represent the amount of time spent using that particular application or site out of 475,190 ...

Senator Ted Stevens made internet history when he called labeled it a "series of tubes" back in 2006, but what a difference two years make. You can see the way technology influences society in this year's presidential race, where all the candidates remaining have harnessed the power of the Internet like never before, a fact which has undoubtedly given much fodder for IST 110. Presidential longshot Ron Paul made ...