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Aerial Photography First Patent
Today in 1893, the first US patent for aerial photography is issued to Cornele B. Adams of Augusta, Georgia (US No. 510,758). His method of photogrammetry can produce a topographic map by means of photographing the same tract of land … Continue reading
World TV Day
Today is World TV Day, declared in 1996 by the UN “in recognition of the increasing impact television has on decision-making by alerting world attention to conflicts and threats to peace and security and its potential role in sharpening the … Continue reading
Lost and Found: GeoCities
Good alerts us to The Deleted City, “a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century.”
How Many Spiders it Takes to Make a Web?
Today is the fifth annual OneWebDay, raising “awareness of the importance of maintaining the open-networking principles that have made it the success it is.” Tim Berners-Lee in Weaving the Web: “When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually … Continue reading
21-Year-Old Internet Search Keeps Most Popular Status
Today in 1990, Archie, the first Internet search engine, was launched. The program downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites, creating a searchable database of file names; however, Archie did not index … Continue reading
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Online Video Vs. DVDs-by-Mail Vs. DVRs
Internet Tipping Point*: In 2006, the number of Netflix subscribers to its DVDs-by-mail service surpassed, for the first time, the number of TiVo subscribers.
Posted in Film, Internet Tipping Point, Netflix, TiVo, Video, World Wide Web
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The Web Unleashed
Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted files to alt.hypertext, making the WorldWideWeb available to the Internet community. Berners-Lee message said, in part: “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere… The WWW … Continue reading
Napster Released
Today in 1999, Napster released its file sharing service, letting people swap music stored on their computers. On April 3, 2008, the iTunes Store surpassed Wal-Mart as the biggest music retailer in the US. In 2010, US recording industry revenues … Continue reading
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Bob Metcalfe, May 2011
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
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.
The Story of Information 