The Governor’s Office of Information Technology has joined up with Connected Nation, a nonprofit group trying to create a map of broadband access — and those areas that still can’t get it — throughout the country. If you’ve currently got broadband access, you can test your speed and tell the…
While it isn’t nearly as cool as neighboring Boulder going all “city of the future” (and yes, we are jealous, thanks for asking), Denver is getting its own energy improvements in the form of a $6 million dollar stimulus check, reports the Denver Business Journal. In addition to boring stuff…
According to this report by the Denver Business Journal, it looks like Boulder is all set to become the wonderful world of tomorrow that we were all promised by cheap paperback novels and the old Buck Rogers TV series! Okay, so it doesn’t mention flying cars or robot butlers, but…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @CBS4Denver: I’m not a big watcher of television news, and by that, I mean that except in cases of huge breaking stories (election nights, terrorist attacks, tsunamis…
September is apparently the month in which indispensable technologies come to life. My evidence? On September 2, 1969, the Internet was born when two computers were successfully linked and sent data back and forth. Sure, it wasn’t used to do anything useful until October of that same year, when the…
One of the great things about the Denver/Boulder area (especially the Boulder bit of that) is how many do-gooders we have here. Seriously, everywhere you look, there’s someone trying to make the world a better place, from those Greenpeace panhandlers (sorry, fundraisers) perched on every corner downtown to the abundance…
Here’s a free tip for all you tech entrepreneurs looking at making an “iPhone killer:” Concentrate on the phone’s Achilles heel, its service. People love the phone, but all too often the service simply sucks. Actually, it’s unfair to single out Apple/AT&T for a haterade bath. The truth is, most…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @SocMediaRckStr: If you’re just getting started with social media, it’s nice to have some hints about what it can do, how to do it and where to…
You want to know what’s hot right now on social media? Just ask OneRiot, a Boulder-based tech company aiming to offer a new way to search the web. As opposed to Google, which tries to provide the authoritative result to any search query, OneRiot is more interested in providing the…
You ever wonder how the Internet sees you? Googling yourself is one way to find out, but what if you’ve always yearned to see yourself as a cross between a bar graph and abstract art? Well, now thanks to the MIT’s Sociable Media Lab and Aaron Zinman, you can find…
In a groundbreaking story printed yesterday, one of USA Today’s crack investigative journalists broke the story that people who hate Twitter don’t see the point of using Twitter! And in related developments, people who find marriage pointless rarely marry, vegetarians don’t like meat, and water is wet. Here’s the lead…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @DenverHappyHour: Do you need a drink or three today after work? Not sure where to go? This fine Twitter feed is full of nothing but happy hour…
As the Denver Business Journal reports, Colorado securities commissioner Fred Joseph filed a lawsuit yesterday against Broomfield’s Joseph D. Doll and Colorado Springs’ Richard H. Janoka, claiming that the men snookered investors out of nearly $3 million to finance two companies, Colorcom LTD and IFR Technologies Inc. Generally, such a…
Just got word of an intriguing Tweetup for photographers via @The BigKlosowski. It’s taking place August 31 on the top, unfinished floor of the in-progress Four Seasons Tower downtown. From up there, you’ll get some unparalleled views of the city, the mountains and, if you’re prone to vertigo, perhaps your…
Denver-based Coathangr, a social media service aimed at the fashion conscious (read about it here), has just made it easier than ever to collect your friends’ opinions about that pair of pumps on sale — or to let them giggle at a distance when you spot a fashion disaster out…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @ChannelMassive: Gaming is rapidly becoming one of the main pastimes of our society. And since most mainstream media still just doesn’t get it, you need smart, savvy…
Denver’s burgeoning alternative-energy industry will get a boost this September when formerly Portland, Orgeon-based wind energy company REpower USA Corp. moves its headquarters to Denver. The Denver Business Journal reports that the company, the U.S. subsidiary of German wind-power manufacturer REpower Systems AG, is one of the first to take…
If you’re stuck at home, poor and bored, the Denver Public Library has got you covered. Forget going into the library for your fix of books and movies — that’s so 20th century. Thanks to the digital revolution, these days there’s no reason to leave the couch, much less the…
Since you probably can’t afford that getaway to a remote beach this year, how about the next best thing: video games. In this case, Wii Sports Resort, which is coming to Southwest Plaza, 8501 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton (www.southwestplaza.com), to show off the fancy-pants, new enhanced motion sensing abilities…
If you dipped your toes into Twitter but found the whole thing a disorganized, confusing mess, have a look at the just-launched social networking service eSwarm. The idea is to take the best features of existing social networking service such as Twitter and Facebook, streamline them and apply a technology…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @DenverMuseumNS: The Twitter feed of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science has a wide variety of cool nature and science-y stuff. Things like helpful tips for…
If you spend a lot of time surfing the Internets for lulz or work in any sort of IT-related field, you’ve probably come across the Webby-award winning web series The Website is Down. It’s a hilarious look at the point where the people who understand technology and make it work…
