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POP!TECH

poptech.org

“Pop!Tech is a one-of-a-kind conference, a community of remarkable people, and an ongoing conversation about science, technology and the future of ideas.”

You can listen to some inspirational podcasts like a presentation by Jessica Flannery the cofounder of Kiva.org, the first peer-to-peer microloan website. podcast

Macbook Air revealed

Steve Jobs shows off the world’s thinnest laptop in Macworld 2008.more

Everest hero Edmund Hillary dies

bbc.com

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first climber to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, has died aged 88. more

CES 2008

2008 International Consumer Electronics Show January 7-10, Las Vegas

Check out CNET.com coverage of CES 2008. more

Official CES Site

Creating a Science of the Web

webscience.org

According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at WSRI (Web Science Research Initiative), In order to

understand what the Web is
engineer its future
ensure its social benefit

we need a new interdisciplinary field that they call Web Science. more

 

2007 Lovelace Lecture

‘The Web: Looking Back, Looking Forward’

This lecture was held on Tuesday 13th March 2007 in London.

The speaker was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Watch the lecture (run time 1:29:23)

 

Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Blog

Defeating poverty, Creating one entrepreneur at a time

The MIT Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship (DE) focuses on design and implementation of commercially sustainable products and services for low-income communities around the world. more

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