FOURSQUARE DAY In the history of holidays, we see new holidays each year. Some are beautiful, some are nerdy. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which one this is. This year, the latest event for the cognoscenti, for those “in the know,” for the hipper-than-thou, is Foursquare Day. Four squared [...]
Tech Trends
I wrote the following article over a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun Microsystems. Back in the mid-’90s we were experienced the early part of the first wave of “The Web.” Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass [...]
FUTURE OF GOOGLE+ Got Google+? Google+ has been online less than a month. When I first got on over two weeks ago, there were less than 2 million members, last weekend there were over 5 million, and as of this writing it has over 20 million members. And it is getting impressive media attention. Here [...]
HISTORY OF WORLD IPV6 DAY Why haven’t I heard about it before? This is the first time it has happened. What happens today? The Internet Society is sponsoring World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011: Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, Limelight Networks, Cisco, Genius, W3C and others will participate for 24 hours in the first [...]
HISTORY OF WORLD BACKUP DAY There isn’t much history, as this is the first celebration of the holiday. But the need is real, now more than ever before. Especially in light of this salient fact: tomorrow is April Fools’ Day. March 31 is an excellent time to check your backups. On the eve of the [...]
