Monthly Archives: May 2011

Bob Metcalfe, May 2011

Posted on May 13, 2011 by GilPress

Bob Metcalfe is Going Meta on Innovation By Gil Press Bob Metcalfe thinks we are in a bubble, an innovation bubble, seeing that the word “innovation” is on everybody’s lips.

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Microsoft on the Future of Search and the Web

Posted on May 11, 2011 by GilPress

Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD), talked this evening about the future of search and the Web at Microsoft’s New England R&D Center. Here are a few highlights.

Posted in Location-based information services, Mobile, Predictions, Search, Social Networks, World Wide Web | 1 Comment

Earliest Surviving Dated Printed Book

Posted on May 11, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 868, The Diamond Sutra was published in China. The copy in the British Library is “the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.”

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50 years of TV’s “Vast Wasteland”

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

“When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

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The News from Plato, Mo., Magic Town

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

“Townspeople, elected representatives, government officials and hundreds of students today celebrated the naming of Plato, as the 2010 Census U.S. center of population. Amid music, speeches, banners and cheers, village chairman Bob Biram welcomed the crowd, saying, ‘We’re proud of … Continue reading →

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Shocking News about News Consumption

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism published today the results of its analysis of the top 25 popular news websites in the United States. Among the findings: 

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Does the Web Make Us Networked Robots or Better Humans?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

From a summary of a discussion with Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together:

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Measurement Milestone

Posted on May 8, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1790, the French National Assembly passes two decrees: One asked the French Academy of Sciences to determine “the scale of division most suitable for weights and measures and for coins;” the other instructed the French Academy to work with the … Continue reading →

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Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation Established

Posted on May 7, 2011 by GilPress

Sixty-five years ago today, on May 7, 1946, more than twenty members of the Tokyo Telecommunications Research Institute, founded by Masaru Ibuka in the previous year, attended the inauguration ceremony which officially established the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. 

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Computer Programming Born

Posted on May 6, 2011 by GilPress

Today in 1949, the Electronic Delayed Storage Automatic Computer (EDSAC), the first practical stored-program computer, ran its first program and performed its first calculation. 

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