Month: August 2006

  • Will Wright: computers enhance our people skills

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/29/will-wright-computers-enhance-our-people-skills/ Bokardo.com highlights a Wired editorial by Will Wright, creator of SimCity, SimEarth, The Sims et al. I was particularly drawn by this quote: Think of it this way: Most technologies can be seen as an enhancement of some part of our bodies (car/legs, house/skin, TV/senses). From the start, computers have been understood as an […]

  • Open talk

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/29/open-talk/ Skype and Google Talk are to interoperate. This is good news, not only for users of both systems, but for the Internet at large: Google Talk runs on open standards. Such a deal could mean Google Talk serves as a gateway between Skype and other clients that run on open standards, for example Gizmo. […]

  • Apps for your Domain: Google

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/28/apps-for-your-domain-googles-office-suite-launches/ Google have released Apps for your Domain, which is more or less the long-promised Google Office. Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Page Creator are part of the suite right now, with Writely and Google Spreadsheet to follow. This is a pretty fully-featured web office suite which takes a pretty violent swipe at Microsoft. All that’s […]

  • Lonelygirl15: a new kind of viral marketing?

    http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/28/lonelygirl15-a-new-kind-of-viral-marketing/ There’s been some talk over the past few days about Lonelygirl15, a 16-year-old homeschooled girl called Bree who posts well-shot, entertainingly edited videologs on Youtube with her friend Daniel. It would appear, however, that all is not what it seems. Some of the later vlogs seem suspiciously staged, and references to her devout – […]