Monthly Archives: February 2008

Wikileaks.org ordered offline

By Michael Becker | Published: February 19, 2008
A California court recently ordered that the whistle­blower site Wikileaks.org be removed from the Internet after a Swiss bank said the site had posted infor­ma­tion about its off­shore activities. Wikileaks allows its users to anony­mously post gov­ern­ment and cor­po­rate doc­u­ments to the pubic. The Swiss bank­ing group Julius Baer said sev­eral hun­dred of its doc­u­ments [...]
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Quickorder app to keep iPod touch owners hooked on Starbucks

By Michael Becker | Published: February 19, 2008
Quickorder, a poten­tial Web app for the iPod Touch and iPhones, would allow Starbucks cus­tomers to order online and avoid all that awful human inter­ac­tion. This is only a mockup and the app isn’t live yet, but I think this is another look at the con­sumer world to come. Technologies like this one, and like [...]
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Twitter-ific

By Michael Becker | Published: February 9, 2008
Okay, so a lot of peo­ple are using Twitter these days, and I admit that I’ve been lag­ging behind the curve on this one. I thought to myself, what’s the point of this microblog­ging stuff. Why post a one-line update when I could just post a real arti­cle? Well, then I started get­ting busy with [...]
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Something Stirs...

By Michael Becker | Published: February 6, 2008
I’m not sure, but this whole blog thing might be on its way back to the front of my brain...
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