Calendars are going to be a popular base for many interesting forms of mesh-ups. At When 2.0 it was obvious that many creative people are thinking about utilizing calendars in interesting ways. Starting from close link-ups between e-mail and calendars…
COntrols at Wikipedia
Current flurry of articles related to problems at Wikipedia are unfortunate but hardly surprising. Society always faces this problem — due to some undesirable elements, the whole society has to bear the burden of policing and other controls. And our…
Privacy and Security
Yesterday I was at National Science Foundation in connection with a research project (review) presentation. There were several program managers. Most of these program managers are responsible for managing research in areas related to information systems and their implications. It…
Folk Computing or $100 Computer
Nirmal Sethia has an interesting perspective on IT for emerging countries or for the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Recently there is good amount of media attention to Negroponte’s $100 computer for poor people. A question many people are asking…
A site combining Taxonomy and Folksonomy
It was an obvious thing to happen. So in response to a quote from my recent post related to taxonomy and folksonomy in a post by Rajesh on emergic.org, it was brought to our attention that there is newly launched…