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RIP Google Wave

daniel — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:08:04 +0000

RIP Google Wave - http://nexle.dk/l/e9z …. Come on @google!!, you should have kept pushing through with Wave – such a bold vision. Of course it was early days – maybe most people didn’t quite value or understand the potential yet?.. At least some(/all?) of it is open source but we needed a giant to push it through. Shame shame.

Kindle e-books now outselling hardcover books on Amazon!

daniel — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:54:13 +0000

Kindle books are now outselling hardcover books on Amazon… what does this mean?

Have we finally reached a point where ebooks are going to have the huge transformational impact some people think it will have..

Wired’s Chris Anderson’s had a good theory in 2004 on how to predict a technology shift and watch for 4 signals (that don’t all have to be present) for the technology shift;

1) The technology price reaches a certain lower point

2) The market share goes above a certain threshold (tech is usually 20% or so)

3) The technology reaches an inflection point where it displaces an existing technology

4) The price of the technology approaches “free”

Watch Chris Anderson’s great video on technology takeoff prediction – http://nexle.dk/l/d6z

I love that great ebooks (also tech ones that normally cost upwards to AUD$100) now often costs $9.95 and how its just such a fantastic reading experience on the Kindle! (the fact that you can carry stacks of books with you and review your digital book highlightings easily is fantastic)

#wired

HTML5 (and the great demo on http://html5rocks.com) rocks!

daniel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:27:37 +0000

http://html5rocks.com rocks! – view the HTM5 “interactive presentation” in a modern broser – wow technology! #html5

My favs in HTML5?….

The top 3 things I love with HTML5 in prioritised order I think are;

Geo location API
Local storage and offline cache APIs
Notification API

Not too excited about the CSS stuff and the crazy web sockets stuff (might change my mind on that) and not too hot on the HTML5 video stuff either (heck we only need that because Apple suck sometimes)

The Facebook(-like) social web and the speed of human evolution

daniel — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:54:10 +0000

Some thoughts on where the social web and technology trends are really leading us.. I think the impact will be more profound and sudden than we could ever imainge…

Just read the article “DST’s Yuri Milner: Facebook Is Going To Be The Social Graph That Unifies All Civilization” on TechCrunch..

While the article itself wasn’t that great it was nice to read the thoughts from DST (the Russian company who invested US $200 million in Facebook a year ago and are investors in trending and promising companies like Zynga and Groupon) CEO Yuri Milner which basically were around the profound impacts that social sites will have on the human race.

A comment from Milner that struck me was;

Charlie Rose:

Backstage you told me about an article in the NYT that spoke to you when we think about why social networking has become such a phenomenon.

Yuri Milner:

Story was that human civ. started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population conc. was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people. Facilitate exchange of information never seen in hisotry of civilization…

I strongly believe that the rate of progress for the human race from a social and science perspective will continue on its ever accelerating path..

Think about the profound impact the printing press had on the human race. The Web was initially not more than the printed words delievered via a new medium. However, imagine now where the Social and “Understanding” Internet (which is underlined by fast processing, endless space, “everyone connected”, elaborate tools and algorithms and change in culture) allows for unrestricted, real time intelligent collaboration between anyone, Web 3.0 style classification and understanding of content and knowledge…

Technological Singularity may be closer than we think…..

From wikipedia:

Technological singularity refers to a prediction in Futurology that technological progress will become extremely fast, and consequently will make the future (after the technological singularity) unpredictable and qualitatively different from today. It is most often associated with the ideas of futurist Ray Kurzweil.^{[citation needed]}
Although technological progress has been accelerating, it has been limited by the basic intelligence of the human brain, which has not changed significantly for millennia.^[1] However with the increasing power of computers and other technologies, it might eventually be possible to build a machine that is more intelligent than humanity.^{[citation needed]}
Theoretically, if a machine built by humans could bring to bear greater problem-solving and inventive skills than humans, then it could design a yet more capable machine. If built, this more capable machine then could design a machine of even greater capability. These iterations could accelerate, leading to recursive self improvement

Android overtook iPhone sales, Google tablet coming http://bit.ly/96Oscv !

daniel — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:12:11 +0000

….enter Google’s true mobile communications, informations and entertainment rampage!!

Just tried Augmented Reality on my street with @layarmobile and the iPhone.. My godness it…

daniel — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:17:43 +0000

Just tried Augmented Reality on my street with @layarmobile and the iPhone.. My godness its great! (thx @BillPrescott)

Xciting times + great opportunities: Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay: http://bit.ly/9…

daniel — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:47:49 +0000

Xciting times + great opportunities: Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay: http://bit.ly/9PHLtu

How stupid is this; computer games at schools instead of sports?

daniel — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:20:39 +0000

How stupid is this; computer games at schools instead of sports? Poor poor kids.. http://nexle.dk/l/e2y

:-) RT @janusboye: RT @mygdal: most daunting single purpose site ever!

daniel — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:29:17 +0000

RT @janusboye: RT @mygdal: most daunting single purpose site ever http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com #cern

Google approaching 10% of Net’s traffic, paying nothing for YouTube bandwith.

daniel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:56:42 +0000

Google approaching 10% of Net’s traffic, paying nothing for YouTube bandwith. Great #Wired article http://nexle.dk/l/nqo

RT @jg_rat AOL to “predict” profitable content

daniel — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:53:37 +0000

RT @jg_rat
AOL to predict profitable content 4 journos http://bit.ly/aPeO5F – brilliant like the idea of http://nexle.dk/l/3fk or just #trash content and big #fail?

Got invite from the nice people @silentale

daniel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:03:23 +0000

got invite from nice ppl @silentale – that site did not do it for me. Search=useful but site did not bring all info together like I hoped.

Marc Andreessen interview

daniel — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:55:52 +0000

A moderately interesting (but admittedly too long and slightly boring in spots) interview with Netscape founder and VC Marc Andreessen. Topics are around social networks (including FaceBook, Ning, Google, LinkedIn etc.), the newspaper business (having a go at the NY Times in relation to future of the print edition), his new investment fund, historic tech trends and more.

Originally sourced from Charlie Rose: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10093

The Truth According to Wikipedia

daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:10:41 +0000

Following is an interesting video which takes a critical view on Web 2.0s impact on society – Wikipedia is the main topic. There is good discussions from both sides. Video is rather long (45mins) but reasonably interesting.

Mobile ‘Poor mans GPS’ in action – just the start!

daniel — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:28:26 +0000

Not sure when it happened but Google launched a new beta version of its Google Maps for Mobiles with a feature “My Location”. This feature allows you to see your approximate location on a map via a mobile phone without using GPS. It calculates your location based on the nearest phone towers. Its nothing new but its exciting that the technology is starting to get used some more. While the Google thing works on many platforms, the Java integration of this technology is under JSR-179 “Location API” and there is a pretty cool article about the Java Location API here. This is just the beginning! This technology over the next year is going to get so hot!! Imagine the advertising potential as well as the opportunity for new and exciting business ideas around social computing etc.. How exciting.

My Outsourced Life

daniel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:40:07 +0000

Although meant to be a humorous experiment (and it is!), this story is worth some thoughts;

My Outsourced Life (article)

EPIC 2014 – “The Googlezon video”

daniel — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:36:17 +0000

In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned. What happened to the news?

If you have not seen this yet, have a look.. quite amusing;

http://robinsloan.com/epic/

Create your “own” search engine with Google..?

daniel — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:49:25 +0000

As we know Google are very good at making people work for them for free and they’ve done it again. You can now create your “own” search engine searching only your topics of interest and with your look and feel and even “tags”/filters.. I created one to test it and it searches Java resources… my link is;
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009593767841622448699%3Aejcfp_zyjty

Your life on a hard drive?

daniel — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:45:52 +0000

“If humans may be viewed as the sum total of their memories, then at our doorstep may be a life changing revolution: the ability to store one’s entire life experiences on an accessible and easily searchable file.”

Although far away, the subject is cool and the article is a good read..

Read the article.