Category Archives: Technology

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Thoughts on Google’s Chrome OS

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Thomas Hunsaker

In his post: Network as Computer – Part 1, Dillon Hawkins detailed some of the history and concepts behind thin client computing. In Part 2, Dillon shared his impressions of Google’s implementation of the thin client model, called Chrome OS. This … Continue reading →

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Useful Innovation or Dirty Cheat?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Dillon Hawkins

A fascinating article written by Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land provides great detail about accusations made by Google that Microsoft’s Bing is cheating and copying Google search results. In a nutshell: Microsoft Bing uses data captured by the … Continue reading →

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HTML5 — no, really!

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dillon Hawkins

The W3C, the standards body that oversees the HTML5 spec, introduced a new logo for HTML5 yesterday. Why? On the W3C blog, Ian Jacobs says, “. . . we [the W3C] are excited that this logo will help raise awareness … Continue reading →

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Network as Computer – Part 2

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Dillon Hawkins

Early last month, an interesting package was delivered. “If this is what I think it is, I’m buying a hamster tonight!” My wife opened the box, and instead of a hamster-powered jet dragster, she pulled out a small, black monolith. … Continue reading →

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Network as Computer – Part 1

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Dillon Hawkins

In 1997 the Web was still pretty new; it was a wonderful leap past the tools previously required to perform tasks on the Internet; and in 1997, the Web sucked. Do you remember what web sites were like in 1997? … Continue reading →

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