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...Robert W. Gehl This paper argues that the failure of MySpace and the rise of Facebook in the social networking site market is due in part to the degrees in which either site associates users, technology, and marketers into a successful “real software abstraction.” Real software abstraction...

..., enjoyed and exploited, free labor on the Net includes the activity of building Web sites, modifying software packages, reading and participating in mailing lists, and building virtual spaces on MUDs and MOOs. Far from being an Social Text 63, Vol. 18...

...Ron Eglash Duke University Press 2002 Allis, Sam. 1991 . Kicking the nerd syndrome. Time , 25 March, 65 -66. Amsden, A., and J. Clark. 1999 . Software entrepreneurship among the urban poor: Could Bill Gates have succeeded if he were black?... or impoverished? In High technology...

... is the author of African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design (Rutgers University Press, 1999). His anthology Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. His educational software for culturally based mathematics learning...

...) cloud platforms “(e.g. AWS, Salesforce), which own the hardware and software of digital-dependent businesses and are renting them out as needed”; (3) industrial platforms “(e.g. GE, Siemens), which build the hardware and software necessary to transform traditional manufacturing into internet...

...-style collective writing session where participants produce a text in three to five days. This process borrows facilitation techniques from agile software development and unconference methodology to enable experts to write book-length texts with no advance planning, using a loose framing...

... presence, of my physical distance from the space of al-Aqsa. This distance is largely the reason for my desire to view AJE’s videos besides the novelty of interacting with the software, as I imagine I would not be compelled to view the compilation if I could easily venture to al-Aqsa compound myself...

... a broader understanding of technology, and to include not only those thought to create revolutions (e. g., information technologies), but also those with which people come in contact in their daily lives. For when we limit discussions about technology simply to computer hardware and software...

... behind Vinny Smith, chairman and CEO of Quest Software, with a net worth of $293.8 million; P-Diddy, whose personal fortune came in at a cool $293.7 million, ranked ahead of such luminaries as actress Julia Roberts, the golf wunderkind Tiger Woods, and a slew of technology and software tycoons.18...

... of excitations from the parts of the stimulating diagram.” 8 Hebb's theory of perceptual learning enabled computer vision researchers to construct what they called cell assemblies from simulated neurons (simulated by customized hardware or in software) that simultaneously addressed responses to patterns...

..., at sites such as “new economy” private-sector software workplaces; some law firms that deal with questions of intellectual property, public interest, or constitutional and international law; research universities and indepen- dent research...

... Goldsmith and Tim Wu contend, national governments have come to assert greater degrees of control over the management of the Net. Although control over particular manifestations of the Web has not always been possible — ­especially with the development of software applications like...

... for the more difficult task of social analysis.40 Chopra’s “Wellness Program on Interactive CD-ROM,” entitled The Wisdom Within, was released by Randomsoft (a division of the publisher Random House). The software unveils...

... here is a virtual hierarchy organizing my computer’s software operations. Given the nature of my subject matter, it might not be surprising that I am per- petually taken aback by the programmed boot-up language informing me that my access to the cyber frontier indeed is predicated upon a digitally...

..., takes the infiltration of market values into the most personal and intimate spheres to new levels. Reagle describes the self-improvement software application Beeminder, built to cultivate motivation in its users by creating a system of accountability: wagering against oneself (or rather against the app...

... parent groups and through libraries around the coun- try. The list is also available on the Web.10 Refined consumer-grade image software and the introduction of the Web transformed access to listings by making the ever-changing database...

... of these for- merly separate and specific recording-related phenomena/practices/modes of production and consumption. At the same time, new opportunities emerge — for small software developers, for musicians, and so on. But the many different recording-related functionalities of the iPhone...

... more and more shot through with “pervasive” or “ubiquitous” or “con- text-aware” computing and information systems. Research and develop- ment of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) focus on the coordination of sensors, software agents...

... to be infrastructural to the other), as well as software protocols and the educational and cultural competence needed to operate such systems. For Larkin, calling something infrastructure is a decision that involves “tearing into . . . heterogeneous networks to define which aspect of which network is to be discussed...

... users of programming do not alter costs after purchase; a software bundle may have uses unknown to the user before purchase and after expiration.16 These are issues for corporate profitability. But the deeper question is whether these technologies express a more...