Global spread of English threatens US, UK: study

The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report. he report commissioned by the British Council says monolingual English graduates “face a bleak economic future” as … [Read more…]

Podbop wins best mashup award

The attendees voted, with their wooden nickels, Podbop the best mashup of MashupCamp. Taylor McKnight was awarded a hot Sun Niagra/TI Ultrasparc system by Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz, who noted the what we used to call object reuse, which failed, has finally come to fruition in mashups.

Google to provide email hosting?

This week, Google’s GMail product manager Stephanie Hannon blogged that the company was piloting email provision for organizations under their own domain name (as opposed to gmail.com).  As a part of its pilot initiative, Google is working with San Jose City College.  At the end of her post, she offers organizations  and opportunity to apply … [Read more…]