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Are universities locking down their PCs?

March 24th, 2009  |  by jz  |  published in Generativity, university  |  5 Comments

I’ve agreed to be a guest blogger for a little while at the Chronicle of Higher Education.  I’ll plan to cross-post here and there.  My opening question: I’ve recently written a book about the Future of the Internet (the paperback version comes out this week).  The argument it makes has a lot of moving pieces.  [...]

Busta Badware

March 17th, 2009  |  by Yvette Wohn  |  published in Generativity  |  Comments Off

BadwareBusters.org was officially launched today by StopBadware.org and Consumer Reports WebWatch. The latest of a string of Berkman Center projects that aim at garnering the wisdom of the crowd through the Internet, BadwareBusters facilitates an online community for people looking for help combating viruses, spyware, and other malicious software on their computers and websites. (StopBadware [...]

Do we need a new Internet?

February 17th, 2009  |  by jz  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, news  |  2 Comments

John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg.  David’s right that a lot of the ideas in the NYT piece echo my book’s thesis.  Here’s my reply to David: Suppose that we agree on [...]

Kindle 2.0

February 9th, 2009  |  by jz  |  published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, kindle  |  7 Comments

Amazon has just introduced its second-generation Kindle book substitute.  As a reader, I’m intrigued — I can download a bunch of books and apparently use it for days without a charge.  Looking at the overall IT ecosystem, I’m also intrigued, but for opposite reasons. The downloading takes place over an “EVDO modem with fallback to [...]

Spectrum and the Public Good

December 1st, 2008  |  by bballou  |  published in Generativity  |  Comments Off

By Brendan Ballou Some of you may know that the FCC is auctioning off the 2155-2175 MHz (AWS-3) band of spectrum later next month, which could open up a whole host of new wireless technologies to consumers. Right now the commission is considering a number of public-interest requirements for the eventual winner of the auction [...]

The X in Xbox

November 26th, 2008  |  by Yvette Wohn  |  published in Future of the Internet, Generativity  |  2 Comments

By Yvette Wohn Opening the refrigerator to get some eggs for breakfast, I was surprised to find a strange apparatus built into one of the shelves. “What the…” “It’s a power juicer,” the refrigerator said, “I know you like fruit, so I decided to install this last night.” “Wow, that’s very considerate of you, but [...]

More on the G1, the first Android phone

November 6th, 2008  |  by elisabeth  |  published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone  |  1 Comment

A few weeks ago, Google and T-Mobile rolled out the G1, the first mobile phone to run the open-source Android operating system. As the Android platform and Android Marketplace develop, it will be interesting to see how they compare to the iPhone platform and the App Store. Will the openness provide the benefits the Open [...]

Moving Towards Generativity

November 3rd, 2008  |  by Yvette Wohn  |  published in Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone  |  1 Comment

By Yvette Wohn After much anticipation and fanfare, the Android made a wobbly debut. A security flaw was discovered just days after it was released and users discovered some fine print that gives Google more power than originally anticipated. Despite these problems, critics are still optimistic about the Android because it encourages generativity. Android is an [...]

Tethering the Wii

October 31st, 2008  |  by Yvette Wohn  |  published in Generativity  |  2 Comments

By Yvette Wohn The Wii game console is a perfect example of what the book describes as tethered technology. In designing the architecture of the Wii, Nintendo did not want users to use the Wii for purposes other than playing Wii games. It took a step even further, creating different regional and country codes and [...]

Policing the boundaries of a “contingently generative” device

August 1st, 2008  |  by jz  |  published in Generativity, iphone  |  5 Comments

The iPhone has come some way since the days when Steve Jobs pledged that Apple would “define everything that is on the phone.”  Yet even with a software development kit allowing for outside coding, Apple reserves the right to … define everything that is on the phone.  Application makers submit their apps for Apple’s approval, [...]

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