Wired: Gadget Lab
It is almost certain that today’s new iPods will gain a camera, bringing the iPhone 3GS’s best new feature to the plebeian masses. But what if you are stuck with the old model or worse - gasp - you foolishly bought an iPod Touch within the last few weeks? You can roll your own camera.Forget about auto-focus, fixed-focus or (Read More)
FresnoBee.com: Local
Students at West Fresno Elementary School now have 15 new computers -- enough for a second computer lab -- because the school boosted its state academic performance score by 69 points. Read comments. (Read More)
FresnoBee.com: Sports
Fresno City College wrestling coach Paul Keysaw is taking 10 wrestlers to the California Community Colleges state tournament this weekend, but he is touting his Rams as underdogs. Read comments. (Read More)
Beehive
Sammy Hagar pulled the plug on Fresno Wabo today. Here's an update: Sammy Hagar announced Wednesday that he was severing ties with developer Milt Barbis and pulling his Cabo Wabo brand out of Fresno."The license has been terminated and the location will no longer be a Cabo Wabo come 2009," Hagar said in a statement. "I have (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Dipchand "Deep" Nishar, a Google Inc. executive who helped start the company's mobile business and other key products, is leaving the company to become a senior executive at LinkedIn Corp.Mr. Nishar, 40 years old, will become vice president of products for the social network that is focused on professionals in January. He w (Read More)
Mashable!
Facebook Connect can now be instantly added to any blog (see video above). Are you adding it to your blog? Give us your blog URL in the comments and we’ll check it out![hat tip to Dave Morin for the video]---Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:Facebook Connect: The News is the NewsDon’t Mi (Read More)
Scobleizer
Guy Kawasaki is a pretty influential guy and when he says “Twitter is a weapon,” in an interview I did with him my ears perk up.But he got more outrageous from there. He took on TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington with a challenge. Guy would rather give up his cell phone for a week than give up Twitter for a week. (Read More)
: @joebachana I agree. Every once in a while we do need to realise that there is a life outside the devices we use. Else one of these days we will end up becoming a part of the machine...remember the movie "The Lawnmower Man"?
: @joebachana Healthy detox sounds like a wise idea. S|M tools and points of contact are piling up rapidly and can consume a lot of brain bandwidth if not careful.
ReadWriteWeb
It seems we're approaching a new age here on the Internet. Instead being anonymous, faceless IP addresses, social computing and changing technologies have allowed the lines between the "real" world and the "virtual" world to blur. Web 2.0 helped create a world where your identity is revealed in bits and pieces as you share (Read More)
: The new age is here, but the old one hasn't left...the "older" generation is still very skeptical...how many times do you hear people creeped out by the exposure while those of us leading the social networking age don't think twice
: This has been happening anyway. Now we are moving into a world where we can control our identity and know where it is being used. Tools will appear to allow us to trace who is making use of or misusing our details so that we can take the appropriate action and lobby for change of practice if necessary
: What a great thread. I hope this discussion continues into the various facets and dimensions it touches, because this seems to continuously weave its way in and out of everyone's daily experience, from Luddite to uber-geek alike. The irony of turning over the protection and care of our 'identity' to an inconceivably enmeshed, faceless, global corporation is stunning. We (mostly 1st-world westerners) really DO want them to anticipate our every whim and desire before we even know what it is ourselves. Having to think about what I want gets in the way of my efficiency and productivity, right? It looks like the first step is to resolve the ambiguities between anonymity, privacy, individuality, identity and personality.