Archive for March, 2008

Google Docs Goes Offline

Posted: 31 March 2008 by Kathy E. Gill in Convergence, Innovation, Web2.0

From Techmeme via Twitter: Google is rolling out (ie, not everyone can get it immediately) Google Gears, which is a first-step in offline use: You’ll know you have the feature when you see a little “offline” menu item in the upper right of your document window in Google Docs… The feature’s first-use case is, “I’m [...]

UK Government On Twitter

Posted: 28 March 2008 by Kathy E. Gill in Innovation, Social Networks

Poynter‘s Paul Bradshaw reports that the UK Government has set up a Twitter account and is using Twitter like a wire service with Twitterfeed. From NowPublic last summer, Here’s How Reporters Use Twitter.

Comcast Drops BitTorrent Block

Posted: 28 March 2008 by Kathy E. Gill in Convergence, Legal, Media

Salon writer Farhad Manjoo reports that Comcast and BitTorrent have hammered out an agreement: “Comcast will now slow down access for people consuming the most network bandwidth, and will no longer delay specific applications (such as BitTorrent).” Imagine if Comcast decided to slow down Firefox for everyone because some of its users download far more [...]