Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.Today, Blogshares ended its beta cycle and went live. To celebrate, I’d like to offer a deal to readers of TNL.net who are also Blogshares members with weblogs. Link to the TNL.net weblog and, when Blogshares finally recognizes your link, [...]
Wired news reports about a new attempt by looksmart to distribute the crawling work of search engine spiders by harnessing the power of thousands of desktop. On its face, it looks like a good idea, even though it is one that will be difficult to implement. Back in the early 90s, Excite tried to do [...]
IM has entered the enterprise quietly and is now starting to gain more corporate support. This week, Sun unveiled its offering in this market and Yahoo started a campaign to get grassroots support in its enterprise IM offering. By moving IM inside the enterprise, companies might be able to prevent some of the security issues [...]
In the future, the Internet has evolved into an InfoSea and access to it is tightly controlled by groups similar to the free-masons of olden days. Here, you train to get access to increasing levels of the InfoSea. But something’s awry with the plans of Sept-Fortune, one of the leading guilds, which is headquartered in [...]
The Washington Post reports that phone companies are fighting to get rid of the wireless portability requirements set for the future. I’ve covered the subject in an earlier entry and am saddened to see that the phone companies are still fighting it. Call your congressman/woman now and tell them you support it, and then contact [...]
Just took a look at my Blogshares account and realized that there is something weird going on with the valuation algorithm. One would think that a blog’s valuation would be equal to the number of shares multiplied by the share price but that doesn’t seem to be the case. If you take the TNL.net valuation, [...]
The Register reports on a new technology that could allow users to roam back and forth between WLANs and mobile phone networks. This is pretty exciting technology but could be crippled by high prices. Another issue in getting this to develop properly is the traditional chicken or egg question: the wireless spots will be provided [...]
I predict that nanotechnology will eventually see the kind of growth experienced by the Internet in the early 90s. It’s still early in development but developments like nanowire will eventually change our world in a way I cannot fathom yet. We might eventually see the rise of tiny machines not unlike what is predicted in [...]
Metafilter bought by Google. The BBC gets a new look, as does CPAN. Slashdot reports about a new programming language, Evil Bits, and changes its stance on Microsoft Security. However, some people feel that celebrating April Fool’s Day is unwarranted. We do live in trouble times but if we can’t take some time off to [...]
You’ve probably already seen the film but you might still want to read the book. While Spielberg did a good job of recreating dinosaurs to amaze us, the movie skipped on the whole discourse of technology, gene manipulations, and all the other exciting ethical debates one is faced with when dealing with new technology. As [...]
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