That would be nice, but I have my doubts. When we all have equally precise, equally up-to-the-second information on traffic conditions, the odds are that we’ll all respond in similar ways. As we all act in unison to avoid one bottleneck, we’ll just create a new bottleneck. We may come to look back fondly on the days when information was less uniformly distributed.
This is plain rubbish. The technology that informed people to move from the first bottleneck due to real time traffic information will also inform people about how traffic is diverging away from the first bottleneck. It will help drivers make an informed decision about their route and, in fact, an intelligent system may even help the driver route better based on instantaneous analysis of traffic divergence from the first bottleneck. The above statement is just nonsense. Technology doesn’t work selectively. Period. He shouldn’t be making such statements just to fill up a column that is due.
Check out this TED talk by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, co-creator of Photosynth and an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, about the power of Photosynth.
Add it to a cool device like Microsoft Surface, you have the coolest social network gadget at your disposal. In the above video, listen to the response he gives to a question in the end. It talks about how powerful photosynth is and what is in store for the future.
Microsoft has released this amazing new gadget called “Microsoft Surface”. It changes the way we interact with digital content. You can use your hand to grab photographs, manipulate it and even transfer it to another device all with hand gestures. It is an amazing new technology. Few months back, I saw a similar technology in action at the Scoble Show. He went to Microsoft research lab to film the technology. Now it is in a consumer product form. It will be available for general public by the end of 2007. Head over to surface.com to see it in action. I can’t believe I am saying this. But, this one from Microsoft is way too cool.
T-Mobile is expected to offer the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to current Dash owners this week for download. It has been leaked on the usual sites known for obtaining these upgrades (I’m not going to list the sites). You’re better off waiting for T-Mobile to officially post it for download, it is expected to be made available this week as a download for current Dash owners.
I am waiting for t-mobile to announce it officially before I try it on my dash.
While talking about the importance of metadata in Joost, Janko Roettgers quotes a comment explaining how meta data will reshape the way we watch television
“Imagine watching a show like Heroes once, and then watching it again with comments turned on to see what other people caught that you missed.”
He also offers some insights about what a meta data driven television programming can offer
Imagine a personalized TV channel that only serves you shows your friends are literally talking about. Or think about the way this could transform programming itself. What if the Lost folks didn’t do their next Alternative Reality Game on the web, but in Joost itself, allowing you to collaborate with your friends and collect clues while watching the show?
This silvery little $299 gadget is designed to play and display on a widescreen family-room TV set all the music, video and photos stored on up to six computers around the house — even if they are far from the TV, and even if they are all Windows PCs rather than Apple’s own Macintosh models. It can also pull a very limited amount of music and video directly off the Internet onto the TV.
Even though it appears to be really cool, I am still not convinced if I would shell out 300 bucks for a product that can only show media on your computers. My take on Apple TV: Not Convincing enough.
Mike Butcher warns us about the system and bandwidth resource usage of a Joost component
The result of this is that even if you aren’t running Joost “full blown” and instead leaving it in “standby” mode, unlike Skype, you are still sharing your bandwidth and eating up your system resources. Windows showed tvprunner.exe using about 165,000K of memory! That’s 165 megabytes. This can be turned off through “Preferences” settings, so technically it’s not something malicious from Joost, but the default is switched to “on” making it a somewhat self-serving move by Joost.
Much ink has been spilled over the so-called “console wars” between the new Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3 and the year-old Xbox 360. So now that 2006 is over and the numbers have been tallied, who won the home-console slugfest?
The PlayStation 2.
That’s right. The PlayStation 2 outsold all next-gen consoles by a fairly wide margin. Sony moved 1.4 million of the six year-old systems in the month of December, according to year-end sales data from the N.Y.-based NPD Group.
For now, the future of Joost hinges on what kind of content it is able to license and support with its advertising-based model. So far, it has already teamed up with National Geographic, IndieFlix, Indy Racing League, Gamestar, North One, September Films, and Endemol. However, van Gulik says, “we’re not trying to solve just the content problem. Or the advertising problem. Or the revenue problem. We’re basically going for all of those things at the same time.”
