“If you haven’t done anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide”. This is the commonplace refrain of those who stand opposed to the concept of privacy, if not total anonymity in the wired world of today. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard these words spoken or read them in a forum…
Web 3.0? With all the buzz surrounding so called ‘Web 2.0’ features including net based applications, social networking, tagging, blogs, automated syndication of content and the like, it’s often hard to see beyond the hype and determine what the impact of these technologies will be on the web as it matures. While marketing types tout…
Last month we undertook a discussion on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its implications in the United States and the ensuing effect beyond that country’s borders. In Canada for example, our more measured response to copyright issues and our rejection of a Canadian DMCA resulted in our country being included in a special US…
Instant messaging (IM) has revolutionized the way people communicate on so many levels it truly amazes me that it wasn’t widely adopted until the recent past. You see, despite the fact that AOL / Time Warner was only issued a patent for IM in December of 2002, instant messaging has been around for a long…
Digital technology has freed us from the yoke of traditional content delivery mechanisms in ways we, scant years ago, could never have imagined. No more need we schedule our lives according to the designs of media conglomerates in order to partake of their wares; digital delivery affords us the luxury of entertainment consumption in a…
Well, last month we engaged in a discussion surrounding the promises and pitfalls facing corporations and private citizens hoping to take advantage of emerging wireless technologies. This time around I’m sitting here in the Dunvegan Pub capitalizing on these facilities in order that I might mix a little business with pleasure. I’m telneted into my…
As last month we took a look at the emerging Internet connectivity technology ADSL, I thought that this time around we’d examine Internet content itself with a discussion on web site design, implementation and maintenance. As many savvy small business owners have come to realise, the Internet is a place that not only demands careful…
Last month we compared groupware with intranets and touched on the development of Sun Microsystem’s Java. This time around I’d like to delve a little deeper into the subject with a discussion on Java development and deployment and it’s effect on the enterprise. Those who believe Java to be a method of spicing up your…