Peter Smith wrote a very interessting comment on facebook’s F8 Conference at PCWorld: Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord? I agree with Peter in nearly every point – especially I share this approach to 100%: I prefer to keep my professional and personal lives more or less separate. Although I also make [...]
Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It’s a Purple Cow. Boring stuff is invisible. It’s a brown cow. [...] Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Seth Godin, Purple Cow | View | Upload your own This idea of “The Future [...]
According to Caroline McCarthy’s post “The future of Web apps will see the death of e-mail” refering to the Future of Web Apps conference the days of e-mail are numbered. The arguments are make sense: It’s a noisy spam-filled thing. Online identities these days are defined by so much more than e-mail addresses (e.g. urls, [...]
The Sillicon Valley company Powerset that is building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing launched Powerlabs, a community where users can interact with demonstrations of Powerset’s technology, give feedback to help improve our natural language indexing, and suggest ideas for the ideal search engine. To my mind it is really worth [...]
A smart idea from the Halfbakery: In addition to the regular PIN number (*), each bank card would have a second PIN number that would indicate the user was in some sort of distress (such as being forced to withdraw money at gunpoint). Use of this alternate PIN would summon the police and perhaps put [...]
