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Technology

July 6, 2010

Technology Journal: July 2010

0. General Everything you ever need to know by John Naughton in the Guardian is a long but thoughtful analysis of the impact of the Internet. Growth of the Internet from 1998 to 2008 [INFOGRAPHIC] Undersea Cable Set To Boost West Africa Broadband (Epicenter) 1. Translation The Mojofiti social networking website uses real-time machine translation [...]

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May 24, 2010

Google launches encrypted search

http://bit.ly/c8z0XI – Hiding from Surveillance, or spammers: Google users can now run encrypted searches by going to https://www.google.com.

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May 12, 2010

Google translating more languages

Google adds text-to-speech translation for additional languages, including five of the largest unreached peoples in the world.

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May 6, 2010

Skype brings 5-way video

http://bit.ly/cvfWNi – @WhereIsBruce: Just saw Skype will be offering 5-way video calling. Huge for global org like SIM.

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March 29, 2010

TechStats: Global mobile data surpasses voice

Ericsson announced mobile data traffic surpassed voice traffic worldwide, amounting to more than 140,000 terabytes per month, generated by 400 million smartphones (vs. 4.6 billion mobile subscribers making voice calls). Mobile providers are worried about the capacity of their networks as smartphone usage grows. In ReadWriteWeb.

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March 22, 2010

Etacts is Xobni for Gmail

Etacts.com looks to be a phenomenally useful little plugin for Gmail, much like Xobni for Outlook. When you’re viewing an email, it will automatically show you details about the person writing you – including your contact history with them, their recent tweets, and other social networking information. There’s also a little button for setting up [...]

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March 12, 2010

New Tech: Real-time text collaboration

TypeWith.Me makes it possible to collaboratively write/edit a document: a “solid, simple, as-you-type document with no signup require.” HT: Lifehacker.

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March 7, 2010

3 steps to finding great articles on blogs

Here’s my 3 step process to finding loads of great articles. 1. Add bunches of subscriptions to Google Reader. a) Create folders on various topics of interest to you b) Spend time finding the 10 best blogs you can find on each topic. c) subscribe those blogs’ RSS feeds and categorize them by folder. d) [...]

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March 6, 2010

Google Chrome 5 auto-translates web pages

A new feature – currently only the development version of Chrome 5 – will automatically detect the language of a web page and translate it without opening a new page. Now you can read all of those Spanish language mission pages by COMIBAM.

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March 6, 2010

Technology: feeding the world

Bill Gates reviews a provocative book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, about agricultural biotechnology.

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March 3, 2010

The future of web browsing?

A stunning new technology for surfing numeric and contextual data and deriving insights from it shown on TED.com.

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February 25, 2010

New Statistics: Twitter Traffic

Status updates per day is the most reliable measure of growth in social networking sites, since many are accessed via third party clients. Twitter grew from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 300,000 daily in 2008 to 2.5 million daily in 2009 to 50 million daily today. (Twitter Blog)

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June 3, 2008

The Amazon Kindle: a missionary resource

In 1998 I wrote about the future of books, and speculated about the implications of the electronic availability of books. That day is now here: the Amazon Kindle with a 2GB SD card can carry nearly 2,000 books; and an 8GB SD card is easily available. While over 120,000 books in Kindle format are available [...]

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July 1, 1996

Using the Internet to evangelize World A?

The idea of using the Internet to evangelize has been bandied about for some time, but these are for the most part only affecting people who have already heard the Gospel.

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