Here is a fantastic use of Instant messaging Science Blog – IM, machine translation on front lines of Iraq developed so that Americans, Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian can chat whilst in Iraq. A great use of technology just as the Iraqi bloggers are having a great effect by describing their culture and what is actually happening on the ground.
Category: Twitters
Interesting new product here that scans in all your credit type cards and then issues its own card after it recgonises your fingerprint. So you only have to carry this Chameleon Card around with you in its secure vault. Neat for 200 dollars or so
Oh boy the RIAA are going to love this. Read this scenario here The Shifted Librarian that would be wonderful, walk down the street with your mp3 player sharing songs using wifi with strangers. What a wondrous thought
Here is a link to a blog by Jim Moore which contains a synopis and link to the Pew report on internet usage by Americans. Which contains , to me, the amazing statistic that 44% of internet users have CONTRIBUTED to online content.
However, there classification of content creators into three types, seems a bit flawed. They have:-
Power Creators – average age of 25
Content Omnivores – average age 40
Older Creators – average for this group is 58
Trouble is if you read the report I fit into all three categories quite comfortably. I wonder why age is such an issue with those guys?