Technology

April 6, 2010

New Future: self-driving cars

Volvo is debuting self-braking and semi-autonomous parking. By about 2020, drivers will be able to take their hands off the wheel completely. Includes “swarming” car system that scans for road conditions, shares information with other cars. In New Scientist.

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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 23, 2010

Twitter infographic

Mashable has put together a stunning Infographic of the Day: The Path to 10 Billion Tweets. See the history of Twitter & Facebook. Wish we could do church & mission statistics like this. (Actually, Bryant Meyers’ books have done an excellent job, and the Atlas of Global Christianity is very nice as well.)

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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 12, 2010

Reflecting on online worship

Brandon Buckner, director of the Internet campus at McLean Bible Church, writes about online worship. Also look at how two churches are hosting worship services on Facebook.

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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 4, 2010

China’s Cyberposse

NYTimes.com – a swarmish movement where Chinese work together online to track down people who have done something wrong. The “human flesh search engine.”

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March 4, 2010

Google: Desktops Irrelevant in 3 Years’ Time

European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs. via Mashable.

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March 4, 2010

From 1995: why the Internet will fail

A failed prediction: “No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” – Clifford Stoll, Newsweek, Feb 27, 1995

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March 3, 2010

Online news more popular than newspapers

Which is why I said “no” to our local newspaper. I can get so much more news than they cover. What is the impact on mission journals and books? via BBC News.

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March 3, 2010

Google: Star Search Sites

Official Google Blog says you can now star sites that appear in searches, and in future searches those sites will be prioritized.

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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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December 9, 2009

25 free/cheap tech we use to achieve our goals

Calendaring: Google Calendar (free) Documents, Spreadsheets, Powerpoints: Google Docs (free), although we also like Zoho.com Project Management: Basecamphq.com ($24/mo) Email: Gmail.com (free); we avoid Yahoo.com because they’ve given names of Chinese dissidents to China Communications: Skype.com (free), Google Voice (SMS send/receive, phone number forwarding), Pamela ($14.95, meeting/call recorder) Cloud Storage for documents, photos, files: Google [...]

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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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