When I was in elementary school, I got a lesson from my teachers every year about saying no to drugs. To be honest, I didn’t quite understand what drugs were. I knew about ibuprofen and stuff like that, but the idea of recreational substances was foreign to me (even though I knew I was always supposed to say no to whatever people offered me).

Luis von Ahn developed the ESP Game [1], a game in which two people are simultaneously given an image, with no way to communicate, other than knowing the matching label for each picture or the pass signal. The ESP Game has been licensed by Google in the form of the Google Image Labeler. Players have [...]

Were you a member of the panicked masses who could not handle today’s GMail problems? I certainly was. I spent hours obsessively refreshing the GMail site, refusing to believe that GMail–my GMail–wasn’t working. Now that GMail is back online, I’m no longer sitting in a cold sweat. See, I’m convinced that if GMail had stopped [...]

It was announced today that Google Apps will soon be available for enterprise use through Capgemini, a consulting and outsourcing service, in a non-exclusive deal. For about $50 per user per year, companies will be able to use the Google Apps Premier Edition, which includes Google DocsGoogle Docs,Spreadsheets, GmailGmaiCalendar, Google Talk, Page Creator, Start Page, [...]

The largest online bookstore spearheading the resurgence of ebooks with its own kingpin ebook reader, isn’t that the perfect union? That was the original Kindle which took the world of reading by storm and we generally agreed that that was the peak of perfection. But no, not quite, we now have the Kindle plus-plus. Yes, [...]