Travel. It can be both a blessing and a curse. And if you're a frequent traveler - especially for business - you're likely among the thousands of people wondering "Just how far did I travel, last year?"
Unfortunately, frequent flyer miles will only provide so much detail. That's why the latest project from Dopplr - the site that helps you keep track of your comings and goings, as well as those of your friends - is so interesting. They're offering to answer a variety of travel history questions by providing Dopplr users with Personal Annual Reports that will help them visualize their travel during 2008.
Eight year old Marco Calasan from Skopje, Macedonia has been dubbed the Mozart of Computers by local press after becoming the worlds youngest IT Professional when he passed the Microsoft Certified System Administrator exam.
According to a report in the Times last week, Microsoft presented Marko with games and DVDs after he'd passed the exams, and although he considered it a nice gesture, he said he wasn't "really interested in those things."
New York-based Peachtree Media Advisors has just released its annual report summarizing mergers, acquisitions and amounts of capital raised in the online media market last year. The report is available as a PDF download (2MB). In 2008 there were were 707 merger, acquisition and capital raise transactions in the online sector of media - which was 92 more transactions than 2007. The breakdown was 348 capital raise transactions and 359 acquisitions. Despite the increase in transactions however, the actual dollar value declined from 2007.
As we mentioned yesterday in our Inauguration 2009 post, the Citizen Briefing Book on the Change.gov site closed to comments from the public at 6pm ET today. According to Michael Strautmanis, Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama Biden Transition Team, the CBB has had "unbelievable response" with over 70,000 people submitting ideas and voting on others.
So what are the concerns of the American people? Well it turns out that the hot topics include gambling, patriotism, religion, health, taxes, transport, environment and drugs. We've listed the top ten below with excerpts; follow the links to the read the entire posts.
Will Web folk of the world get a chance to watch next week's unprecedented and groundbreaking webcast live or were we just deluding ourselves? In what can only be described as a typically predictable move, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has appealed Federal Judge Nancy Gertner's order allowing the hearing of Joel Tenenbaum's copyright infringement trial to be narrowcast over the Web.
Today, the Harvard legal team representing Tenenbaum commented on the appeal pointing out that if the RIAA truly wants to educate people it should be embracing the narrowcast. The appeal really does beg the question: does the RIAA really want its voice heard by the masses?
A year ago, I wrote about the State of Innovation in India, keying off an article I had written 10 years previously. Rather than wait another 10 years, ReadWriteWeb has decided to make this an annual review. This time, we have restricted ourselves to web technology. We are looking for breakout innovation, companies creating and getting traction with technology that will change and create markets.
On Tuesday millions of people will flock to Washington DC to see President-elect Barack Obama sworn in as our 44th President. But what if you can't get there? Well, turns out in this digital age it's not a problem; as Obama recently pointed out "you don't have to brave the crowds and commotion in order to participate in this celebration."
While various news outlets will be streaming the event, we've compiled this list of online resources to make it easier for those of you who wish to navigate the inauguration virtually. Included are Inaugural Week events, where to watch the Inauguration online, how to stay up-to-date with news, what to do if you're heading to DC, and links to interesting and [we hope] fun sites.
The recent news about Steve Jobs' health (and leave of absence) has caused a flurry of commentary and speculation. Can Apple survive without him? Is his health a private or public matter? Could he have been more forthcoming earlier? And what else isn't Apple telling us?
Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress , yesterday announced their new site WordPress TV, a place where you can find all things WordPress in visual form. Filled with tutorials for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the site has also been designed to give footage from WordCamps of the past a home on the Web.
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we look at Google's product line adjustments, explain why you should jailbreak your iPhone, analyze the world of Enterprise RSS, and tell you how to build a Social Media 'cheat sheet' for virtually any topic. Also we review the highlights from our Enterprise Channel and Jobwire, ReadWriteWeb's new product which tracks hires in tech and new media.
