The time is coming closer when we really don’t have to get out of bed even to wander round the house. Build your own 3D virtual world and invite all your friends round! Metaplace is a web application developed by Raph Koster, one of the developers of massively multiplayer online
The BBC reports today on companies which are instituting “no-email” days in order, so as – they claim – to “increase productivity”. Some of the companies mentioned include Intel, PBD, Deloitte and Touche. They’ve picked Friday. That doesn’t seem a very good idea to me. As Friday is the last
Beware if you’re using Excel for certain calculations. The 2007 version of the software has a bug in it. If you have a copy try asking it to calculate 77.1 times 850. Here’s a clue – the answer should be 65,535 But in Excel 2007 it’s 10,000! The explanation is
Jack Schofield at the Guardian has blown the myth that a black background to Google will save the planet… Blackle.com is a search engine that claims to save thousands of watts of energy by searching Google (to which it has no connection) with a black background instead of a white
Well it’s not been a wonderful summer so far as technology goes. Small businesses and homes have been hit hard by three days of “unprecedented” disruption to the Skype internet telephony service. According to the BBC: The problems with the service began on 16 August and stopped millions of people
So there’s nothing to worry about – healthwise – from mobile phone masts. That’s certainly reassuring – for most of us. Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, say researchers at the University of Essex. Dozens of people who believed the
So often those who start using learning technologies (or creative technologies, or social technologies….) carry over into the new context assumptions, methods and processes that were appropriate in the old context but not in the new. However, it can take time for new ways of working to be discovered and