What I've Learned: Vint Cerf

"I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.

Top 100 Web 2.0

These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners.

A new kind of zoo

A former product lead of Google News is quietly working on a new social search service called Mechanical Zoo, which he started with the help of two other Google refugees.

Visit Mechanical Zoo

What to Watch for A Web2.0 Expo

On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Expo invades San Francisco. The largest Web 2.0 conference there is--the organizers are expecting 7,000+ attendees--will inhabit the Moscone exhibit hall through Friday. Visit Web2.0 here.

10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here--Yet

A high-definition TV you can carry in your pocket. A remote you talk to. A dongle for bringing HDTV broadcasts to your laptop while you're on the go. Sound great? Too bad, because you'll have to cross an ocean to get them.

IBM and the Future of the Mobile Phone

Over the coming years, mobile phones are expected to get "smarter", adjusting to our usage patterns. Innovations such as larger projectable screens and other e-commerce and social networking features will enable the phone to provide much more value to our lives.

Fiction becomes reality

It takes a while for a great idea to go from imagination to actual use in the real world, but it happens a lot! Three fictional gadgets made real were in the news just this past week.

The World in 2057

What might our world look like 49 years from now? Take a peek.

Examples of mashup uses

50 Top US Medical Schools

Interactive Census Maps

Ask 500 People

See more examples of mashups here.

Mashups, what are they?

Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0. This article explores what it means to be a mashup, the different classes of popular mashups constructed today, and the enabling technologies that mashup developers leverage to create their applications.

Are these widgets worth half a billion?

A lot of eyebrows were raised on Wall Street in January when two giant investment firms, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, paid $50 million for a 9.1% stake in Slide, a San Francisco- based company best known as the purveyor of entertainments like SuperPoke, which lets Facebook users "ninja kick" or "bodyslam" or "throw a pillow at" their friends.

Visit Slide's website.

Countdown to iPhone 2.0

Apple is gearing up for a big bump in sales of the next generation iPhone, if new production plans are any guide.

The Hot Zone


A Google-backed startup called Meraki thinks it can succeed where others have failed, building citywide Wi-Fi networks. First up: San Francisco.

The Napkin Sketch

You ought to be in pictures. No, really. Companies are increasingly using simple pictures to distill complicated concepts into easily shared, easily remembered nuggets....

Concept Phones

Concept phones are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don't have to be concerned about the mundane stuff.

Here is a list of Top Fifteen concept phones that might or might not meet Realism.

Google Drive killer coming from MIT startup



For Windows and Mac OS X... why wasn't this made 5 years ago?

It is a bit too slick to be true but the demo looks absolutely amazing. Dropbox is a new startup company from a couple of MIT computer science alums and it looks really promising! Basically it’s a really beautiful solution for sharing files online, with a group, between computers or whatever your need is.

The Best Tools for Visualization


Here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best.

Sun unveils the most powerful super-computer on the planet

Sun and the Texas Advanced Computing Center unveil Ranger", a supercomputer based on Sun's Constellation System. Ranger is one of the very fastest supercomputers in the world, and ushers in the new era of "petascale" computing in which high performance supercomputers approach one petaflop (one quadrillion floating point instructions) per second.

Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox

The most interesting topic discussed in meeting with CNET, was just how compelling Mozilla's Firefox will increasingly be as the platform for much that happens on the web. Forget Facebook, MySpace, the iPhone, and other so-called platforms. Firefox could well prove to be the most disruptive web platform on the market. Here's why.

Facebook CEO Admits Missteps

At SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg says the social network has yet to achieve its grand ambition. Plus, the lesson of the Beacon controversy.