When does tech become accepted normality? How new does something have to be to be considered ‘tech’? It’s a philosophical point, but also one that illustrates this ongoing concept that technology should be invisible, allowing it’s users to get on with whatever they were wanting to do. It is somewhat ironic, then, that the act
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No Comments » I recently read an insightful article by Oliver Starr, who is an employee of Pearltrees, a web based and self-declared ‘social library’. The linked article places Pearltrees amongst a new spread of web services whose self-descriptions use the term web curation. As Starr rightly points out, this ‘curation’ is what humans have always done. We have
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Proprietors of search, Yahoo, have produced a visual web search browser plug-in. ‘Axis’ is a product whose installation allows visual previews of websites upon searching the web, rather like Oolone. A small search bar at the bottom of your browser allows entry of your search term, which is followed by a series of screenshots appearing
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