From the monthly archives: March 2007
Horowitz answers questions from the press.
FOR the guy in charge of promoting Yahoo! Answers, Bradley Horowitz seems awfully preoccupied with questions these days.
What, for example, did Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Hawking, and Bono hope to learn from the “wisdom of the crowd?”
The celebrity questions are part of a clever effort to drum up interest and participation in Yahoo! Answers, the Internet giant’s poster child for “social search.”
HOW big and vibrant is the Linux community in the Philippines? This is what one of my readers, Rean, wanted to know.
BACK when the speed of PCs was measured in megahertz, most serious graphics design work was done on powerful and expensive workstations.
The arrival of more powerful PCs would change all that. As processors became faster and memory became cheaper, software developers began writing graphics design and image editing programs for the Apple Macintosh or for Windows PCs.
