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THE WEB AND ICT: INNOVATION FOR SPECIALISTS, GEEKS AND INTERNAUTS

 
 

10 x 10  - The images and words that most define our time

The 100 images and words most used by the world’s most influential news agencies, updated every hour, encapsulated in a 10x10 square. The site was developed by Jonathan Harris and Fabrica. General
 
 
 

A LIST APART - The web design in an excellent perspective

Design, development and management of web contents, with a special attention to the best standards and examples. In Topics, all features divided by theme. General. 
 
 
 

ARS TECHNICA - The art of technology

Design, innovation, environmental issues, web scenarios of the near future seen through the compound lens of technology, science and the arts. Downloadable articles and guides. Technical-general
 
 
 
How does one design attractive and functional websites? Read the rules of good web design, the style guide and the tips from A List Apart. Then choose the combination of colors you like and find out which other sites use them with Web Cream. Download templates for free, organized by category and layout. If web 2.0 is too flat for you, contaminate it with pixel art, create your own sprite (pay close attention to Part 10 of the tutorial). But before putting it online, make really sure you’ve made all the right choices.
 
 
 
 

RED HERRING - New technologies: trends, companies, people

Articles, news and initiatives. Redherring.tv features interviews with the CEOs of the most innovative companies and the most daring investors. The Research section investigates new technology trends. Technical-general
 
 
 

ROBOTS - How were grandparents of Wall-E born?

Robots using scissors or playing chess. Space robots to work and play with… Do they have a soul? Do they fall in love? News, features, and a community in this authoritative but informal website. General. 
 
 
 

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW - Perspectives on technology from MIT

Free daily and weekly newsletter; MIT Insider with paid subscription. Career Resources offers advice and tools for those seeking work. Complete overview of technology initiatives.  Technical-general
 
 
 

TED - Technology, entertainment, design and other top

Widely known and authoritative, TED posts more than 200 conferences attended by scientists, intellectuals and opinion leaders. Meaty topics, brilliant exposition, humor and original ideas. Electrifying. General
 
 
 

WEBDESIGNERDEPOT - Designing a Social news website

How a social news website that works is developed? Which layout is to be chosen? How contents must be organised? What are the best font? Why successful websites have reached success? Technical-General. 
 
 
 
If you haven’t yet heard of the semantic web or computational linguistics, it’s time to read up on them. In a word, they are the foundation of web 3.0, which not only recognizes words but understands their meaning, distinguishing for example between lead (metal), lead (starring actor) and lead (opposite of follow). Semantic algorithms are used to classify information and orient the responses of Freebase, a database with 4 million topics that grows larger every second and promises to be the encyclopedia of the future.
 
 
 
 

WIRED - The techno bible

Articles, news and awards for technology products yet to be produced. Is your cell phone a fake? Find out with the How To Wiki. And if you’re tired of Wikipedia, try Geekipedia. Technical-general
 
 
 

WORDLE - Build your own word cloud

Simple, fun, fast and free. Taking a text and extracting the most frequently recurring words is not as frivolous an exercise as it may seem, for it can reveal hidden themes, involuntary tics, bad writing habits… General
 
 
 

XO - Give a laptop to a child and change the world

The site is as good and intuitive as the object it promotes: the XO, a 100-dollar laptop that is powered by wind-up, designed to supply children in developing countries with access to the world of computers. General
 
 
 

Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism  - Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly, Wired’s founder, believes that sum of all computational devices in the world connected online, including wirelessly, forms a superorganism of computation  with its own emergent behaviours. Foresighted. General. 
 
 
 

How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry - Fred Vogelstein - Wired

The iPhone has encouraged innovation in the mobile telephone industry, giving more power to consumers, programmers and phone manufacturers. General
 
 
 

Red Herring 100 awards 2007  - Red Herring magazine

The 100 most innovative technology and ICT companies in North America, Europe and Asia according to the rankings of Red Herring Magazine. General
 
 
 

Ten web Startup to watch - Technology Review

Live broadcasting, semantic advertising, web applications to receive text messages and visualize them as Google maps in case of emergency: the 10 most innovative web ideas, according to MIT. Technical-general
 
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