Luckily, by taking advantage of the cloud, the people who work side by side with computers are able to keep themselves updated by using the tools online.
Social Media
- Have a Twitter account and subscribe to tech news such as @mashable, @engadget ...
- Official company Twitter like @microsoft, @google will twit about their product improvements and whats new.
- Famous people like @kevinrose, @jeresig might provide insights on latest / future interesting tech
News
- Use feedreader like Google Reader to subscribe to the latest tech news and blogs for upcoming news through feed like Gizmodo, BGR
- Join HN (http://news.ycombinator.com) where bleeding edge tech news are shared
- Sites like Reddit and Digg has some tech categories in it. Be sure to check it out.
- Newspaper (and any media linked to conventional newspaper agencies) are outdated can be completely waste of time.
QA Knowledge Market
- Having doubts on something you barely know? Ask in Quora or Stackexchange. The people there are extremely helpful.
- Stackexchange has several different sites serving different needs. Go to Stackoverflow for more in-depth computing coverage.
Podcast / Videocast
- Constantly checkout the podcast and videocast to checkout new techniques (covering how to program..)
- Youtube or Vimeo served a lot of video. Search and subscribe.
- TED.com is another source where collection of interesting lecture on brilliant ideas.
Honorable Mentions
Be sure to keep yourself up to date, what you did in campus is the past.
