Tag archive for ‘Google’
Daily Bruin Column: The forecast for computing is looking cloudy
This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on April 3, 2009.
I’ve always wanted to be a meteorologist.
The forecast? Cloudy. Well, the technological forecast, anyway. The next big Internet innovation is cloud computing.
In this case, the “cloud” represents the intricacies of all of the interconnected computers on the Internet. Cloud computing is a [...]
Daily Bruin Column: Get in a twitter over this social site
This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on March 16, 2009.
In the spirit of the World Wide Web’s 20th birthday last Friday, I’d like to celebrate my favorite thing on the Web right now: Twitter.
On the surface, it is deceptively simple. It’s a social network and a micro-blogging tool in which you [...]
Daily Bruin Column: Internet intelligence goes beyond book smarts
This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on February 2, 2009.
The information highway just got a little more crowded. There are now more than 1 billion people on the Internet, according to comScore, an Internet research firm. The Internet’s democratization of information has made a seemingly infinite amount of knowledge easily accessible. [...]
Daily Bruin Column: Google shows that a little invasion of privacy can go a long way
This column was first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin on November 19, 2008.
Don’t be evil – as the Google mantra goes. Or at least, be a little evil for the greater good.
Immediately after Google’s introduction of their new project, Google Flu Trends, the Cassandra cries roared from privacy groups. Cassandra was given the gift [...]