Events Guide 13 Online Resources To Catch The Oscars On The Web Tonight's Academy Awards ceremony will be the 81st in the award's venerable history. The film industry's biggest stars have gathered in Hollywood, the Oscar statuettes are safely tucked away in the Kodak Theatre, and we've compiled a list of sites for you to get your Oscar fix online. From where to watch the event (and how, if you're not in the… Lidija Davis View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: May We Recommend... Between the iTunes Genius Sidebar, Amazon's recommender system and Pandora's virtual DJ, recommender systems are now getting close to knowing my tastes better than I do. There's a certain seductive attraction to the idea that collaborative filtering and artificial intelligence could hand us our heart's desire before our hearts even think of it… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
Government Stimulus Spend Data Coming via Feeds In a memo from the Office of Management and Budget last week, Director Peter Orszag outlined the implementation guidelines [PDF] for the new stimulus bill, requiring all government agencies to provide a feed to disclose funds allocated, and optimize Web pages in an effort to help the public find relevant information through search engines. "For… Lidija Davis View comments
Features Vint Cerf: We Still Have 80 Per Cent of the World to Connect "By 2010 we will have run out of IP addresses if we don't do something about it," Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist and the man commonly referred to as "the father of the Internet," told ReadWriteWeb last month. (Video embedded below.) With the number of Internet-enabled devices particularly mobile phones soaring, very few IP addresses… Lidija Davis View comments
Lifestreaming Pingle Brings Ping.fm to the iPhone Curious Squid has released Pingle, an application for the iPhone which lets you update your status across a selection of social networks at once. Using Ping.fm, Pingle will update Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, FriendFeed, Delicious, Tumblr, and more including many blogging platforms. The app works on both the original 1G iPhone and the 3G… Lidija Davis View comments