Jim Rapoza

Just starting to wrap up day one here at the Berkman@10 Conference. The second session of the day was hosted by center Executive Director John Palfrey and focused on politics and the Internet. John brought in lots of the distinguished members of the audience to talk about the effect of the blogosphere on politics and […]

Here I am live at the Berkman@10 conference at Harvard, an event that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and also is looking at some of the key issues facing the Internet today. Jonathan Zittrain, a co-founder of the Center, just finished a talk on the future of the […]

It’s good to know that when our country is threatened that our lawmakers will jump into action to protect us, leveraging resources and spending money to form giant new bureaucracies and establish White House-level positions to combat this major threat. What is this threat that Congress has put such a high priority on? Is it […]

Small Web applications, or widgets, have become a kind of gateway tool for Web content creators who want to add simple graphical applications to their Web sites, blogs or social network pages. These tools let regular users with no or limited developer skills build mashup applications that combine rich media and popular Web-based services such […]

Click here to see screenshotsMicrosoft Expression Studio Expression Studio is Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe’s Creative Suite, but in terms of features, functionality and maturity of tool sets, there’s really no competition: Adobe trounces the Microsoft design and Web development suite across the board. But just because Microsoft Expression Studio can’t currently take down the reigning […]

Recently, I had a meeting with a technology worker and we were discussing the state of the enterprise testing tools market. We remarked on how many of the major players, such as Mercury Interactive, had been acquired by large companies such as Hewlett-Packard. We also discussed the tough road that the few small independent testing […]

With the release of the videogame “Grand Theft Auto 4” we are starting to see a wave of media and politicians condemning the game as an amoral destroyer of our culture, and in many cases calling for a ban of the game. And aside from their hatred of the game and any game like it, […]

Click here to see screenshotsBrowsers & SaaS Yours is a typical modern company. You have sales and customer management systems, advanced project management tools, extensive network and system security infrastructures, collaboration tools, and a heavily customized enterprise content management system. What’s not so typical now–but will be in the near future–is that none of these […]

Click here to see the slideshowflopphases.jpg Get a group of people together to talk about technology and inevitably the conversation will turn to classic technology flops. Whether it was a technology that disappointed, failed to deliver or was just out-and-out hated, people like to talk about technologies that failed as much, or maybe even more, […]

When it comes to defending technology assets against malicious hackers and other bad guys, I’ve always been a firm believer in understanding and even using the tools and tactics of the enemy. In most cases, this means having familiarity and even a working knowledge of the tools and methods that are used to scan and […]