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Category: Innovation

  • Updating the Wikipedia experience

    A website I probably visit at least three or four times a day is Wikipedia. To millions of people around the world, the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit is a trusted source of easy-to-find information on almost anything, eminently…

  • Earthquakes and wisdom of the crowd

    Last week, a senior Iranian cleric claimed that earthquakes are caused by the promiscuous behaviour of women. Such a claim produced guffaws and countless Twitter retweets in probably most places outside Iran. Now Mashable reports on how a Facebook group…

  • Investors love the iPad

    There’s simply no question that the hottest news today, this Easter weekend, is the launch of Apple’s iPad, the device that has captured global attention like nothing else. The hype is incredible. In fact, if you were to wonder where…

  • Earth Hour 2010 today

    As I write this post, Earth Hour 2010 gets underway off the coast of  New Zealand, when the diesel generators on the Chatham Islands are turned off, as the first of 125 countries and territories sets in motion a 24-hour…

  • Apture toolbar: a model of popup discretion

    If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that it’s “enhanced with Apture.” Well, you may not know that, actually. But you will have experienced Apture when you’ve clicked on certain links that show you information as elegant…