Category Archives: Technology

It’s official. LittleSis has launched. LittleSis is – what we’ve dubbed – the involuntary Facebook for powerful Americans. From the blog: By tracking the relationships of powerful Americans – everything from campaign contributions to family ties – LittleSis opens up … Continue reading →

I use the TimesPeople feature at the New York Times to stay in sync with friends in what we read. Anyone can subscribe to at my profile page. I also created this style, which you can enable with the Firefox … Continue reading →

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article on CommentPress! Here is a quote: With CommentPress, released in July by the Institute for the Future of the Book, designers have endeavored to help digital books capture the immediacy and interactivity of … Continue reading →

I found an interesting project that performs real time tests on websites to determine whether they are blocked by China’s “Great Firewall” and I was (somewhat) surprised to find that our very own blog was filtered: Our ideas are considered … Continue reading →

I recently saw the following video of a technology that models human faces: This got me thinking about relationship we have to our face. Our face is the most public representation of ourselves to society, yet is it also our … Continue reading →

Yesterday Apple Computer announced an official name change to Apple Inc. Is this a sign that Apple is leaving the computer industry? Nope. It’s a sign that computers have become so ubiquitous that the definition has broadened into, what appeared … Continue reading →

Last week, the London Times reported that the Wikipedia founder, Jimbo Wales, was announcing a new search engine called “Wikiasari.” This search engine would incorporate a new type of social ranking system and would rival Google and Yahoo in potential … Continue reading →

At Future of the Book we recently hacked WordPress to allow comments to tie to specific paragraphs in the text and I think it turned out pretty well. Other people seem to think so [1][2][3]. In just a few sleepless … Continue reading →

I was checking out first webpage ever created, by Tim Berners-Lee, and found an interesting page where he outlined the potential uses of “hypertext nodes”, as he called them. At first I thought it was interesting that he did not … Continue reading →

The notion of “software as service” is challenging the concept of software similarly to the way today’s global economy is challenging the idea of what it means to be a company. As bizarre as it might sound, Japanese brands are … Continue reading →