And here www.fleetonline.net is a new application that tracks previously registered mobile phones on the internet, at 21p a time. Guess its a bit big brotherish but its obviously what MI5 is using (without our permission or maybe its buried deep in our contracts) to keep tabs on us all.
Guess it would be useful if you lost your phone or if you were a delivery driver and obviously it is what those guys at ZingoTaxi arecould use (see blog of 29 April). So a system can be implemented by one guy and 21p per call rather than 50 people and 8million! such is progress!
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Here is an interesting blog on care issues with the wondrous masteracre at dixons. Most interesting idea that Marie had was using google adwords to publicise her cause. Apparently google banned them after a while – will bring them the issue up at the Google University in London when I visit the Adword course.
and here is a shockingly good present for the woman in your life. A jacket that can charge up to 80KV when its owner presses a button. Just the job to keep unwanted hands of you!
Philip and his new friend Don came around last night and introduced me to Shazam.
This is a pretty revolutionary new service here in the UK. If you hear a tune on the radio that you really like and want to know what its called etc (Yep, its really frustrating!) then you just dial 2580 (pretty cool number actually its the four centre keys on your mobile going in the direction of the microphone!) point the phone at the loudspeaker. Then bingo 30 secs later you get a SMS (Text message) with singer, track etc. Apparently has a database of 1.6million songs it searches. Incredibly it works! you can then go to their site at Shazam.com to order the song from Amazon. (Captain Marvel fans should go here for SHAZAM history)
You can then register at the site (maximum age on their form is 40 years, so I guess I’m not in target market!). Where you can access all tunes you have tagged and order from Amazon in boring old way. Now wouldnt it be cool to link it to your ipod and download the mp3. Yes the future is exciting