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It is hard to imagine that after all these years, the debate on which social network is king is still going on. Of course, until earlier this year when they released their IPO, Facebook was the de facto social media du jour. Twitter was a close second naturally but the truth is that it doesn’t […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my I AM probably the last person to be asking this question, but do we really have time for another social network? I am referring to Microsoft’s new “social network” called So.cl (pronounced “social”), which was rolled out earlier this week as an “experiment”. The initial reports on So.cl state that Microsoft […]
Does art imitate life, or is it the other way round? In the Harry Potter movies, Jamie Waylett often found himself in hot water as Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco Malfoy’s sidekicks. In real life, he’s just found himself in trouble as well after he was found guilty of “violent disorder” earlier this week for […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my In the mid-1990s, I created my first website. It was only a single page, though. Through some very easy online tutorials, I managed to teach myself basic Hypertext Markup Language or HTML, and could add text – in different sizes and colours – to the page. Those old enough to remember […]
JUST last week, Vinton Cerf got the interwebs abuzz with his article in the New York Times titled “The Internet is not a human right”. Besides the sensational headline, the article was also fascinating because Cerf is one of the original architects of the Internet, back when it was used by only the military. I’m […]
JUST like that, 2011 has passed us by and so much has happened in the technology world. Both of us can hardly keep up with what’s been happening, given the break-neck speed at which things changed and developed all year long. More significantly, technology has shown this year that it matters beyond the world of […]
By NIKI CHEONG and DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my JUST like that, 2011 has passed us by and so much has happened in the technology world. Both of us can hardly keep up with what’s been happening, given the break-neck speed at which things changed and developed all year long. More significantly, technology has shown this year […]
IN the past few years, social media “predictions” have been a popular subject to approach, especially towards the end of the year. With social media being such a “new” phenomenon, it was easy getting caught up in it. Will next year see Twitter trump Facebook, or will Google come up with something to kill off […]
A COUPLE of weeks ago, I took the train up to Oxford in Britain along with my classmates to listen to Richard Stallman speak. Stallman, or RMS as he is known, is a renowned software freedom activist most known for starting the Free Software Foundation in 1985. The FSF is a non-profit corporation, which aims […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my A COUPLE of weeks ago, I took the train up to Oxford in Britain along with my classmates to listen to Richard Stallman speak. Stallman, or RMS as he is known, is a renowned software freedom activist most known for starting the Free Software Foundation in 1985. The FSF is […]