In one of my recent posts, I had listed my expectations from 2007, and among them, one was specifically about identification of virtual personalities. OpenID project, which looks like a non-profit organization, seems to have a good but overly-optimistic solution. Their idea is to assign a unique username for every netizen (i.e. net citizen), and [...]

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There may not be a single day that social networking concept does not extend to another level and improve another area of the drowning-in-content-overload humankind. Here is two social networking sites that revolve around book-reading preferences of their members: LibraryThing and Shelfari. If you experience the same problem while browsing Amazon – a vicious cycle [...]

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That is how I perceive Internet. Further and deeper than reading news; consuming videos, games; communicating real-time…Nope, I only think they are marginal productivity improvements in our lives, respectively over reading hardcopy newspapers and magazines; watching DVDs, playing board games and talking on the phone, or receiving postal mail and facsmile. The essence of the [...]

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A SlashDot post talks about the future for charging desktop gadgets here. Yet, a small start-up that has created a reasonable buzz in CES 2007, namely Powercast, claims to have a robust solution for charging and even powering small electronic gadgets via Powercast receiver and antennas. As it is expected, the spread of this technology [...]

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Apple’s impatiently rumored cellphone (despite trademark case against Cisco, Apple continues to announce it as iPhone) is unveiled, and expected to be on shelves in 6 months from now. I deliberately waited this long to merge two subjects into one. The other post’s content has just been released: Thanks to strong iPod sales, Apple took [...]

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