RWW: The Future of Tech

The PC that changed everything is back. Sporting a faster 2.0GHz AMD Sempron® processor, more memory and Ubuntu 8.04, the gPC3 is now better than ever. Surf the Internet, email friends and family, write a book report or play the latest DVDs. Everex makes it simple, easy and affordable. - sofarsoshawn

"EtherPad is not likely to win a price for its user interface design, but it might just be one of the most useful web apps we have seen in quite a while. EtherPad allows you to instantly create a workspace for text documents that you can then share with your colleagues, clients, or friends. Every edit to the document will immediately appear on your co-workers' screens in real-time." - Frederic via Bookmarklet

Re: Etherpad Seems easy enough. As I watched the screencast on their site, it made me wonder whatever happened to Netmeeting and whether there is a Web 2.0 app that does the same thing Netmeeting did. - Brian Schwartz

why not...zee@wedocreative.com - you might also want to offer the apps room http://www.friendfeed.com/welo... - Zee. Just Zee.

just 'like' this and i'll get in touch with you in the next couple weeks. - Simon Plashkes

Why not :-) - Majento

"Yesterday, Fi (Fantasy Interactive) sent out alpha invitations to their new product, Kontain. This is one product I’ve signed up and (not very) patiently waited for its launch, as it should be pretty revolutionary in terms of user-friendliness. Basically, it’s the first Flash-based blogging platform open to world wide free public access." - Alex Cristache

Who needs a Flash-based blogging platform? It's inaccessible. Each page weighs at least 400Kbytes. Maybe someone would use Flash-based blogging tools, but the reader also needs Flash to view even your text and image content. I don't get it. Isn't this why we have standards like JavaScript? - Benjamin Doherty

Benjamin, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of computers these days. That's not the real problem. Also, no matter how much we complain about it, the dial-up era is gone. 400Kb per page? We should analyze standard blogging platforms and see much their pages weight, with tons of widgets & slow loading gadgets using external APIs. This is a great product for those that find "drag and drop" type of actions easier. It would be a whole lot easier to explain Kontain to my father rather than WP. - Alex Cristache

too bad murdoch's newspapers don't often reach beyond dead ideas. http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi... [http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi...] - Benjamin Doherty via IM

"As most organizations know, hiring the wrong people for the wrong job can be extremely costly. It is even more costly if you assume everyone knows how to leverage social media for your business purposes and with your audience of suppliers, employees and customers. Be careful what you ask for." - Jay Deragon via Bookmarklet

I agree with you.Watch what you ask for. - misca mihaela

I think it would be not all that difficult to quantify what people should be looking for. Thinking back at Robert Scoble PRE Microsoft gig, what were they looking for, and what did they get? Then run a comparison, and pull those out as a JD. Ohh - blog post coming I think on this one. Thanks! - dan

Oh wow. I thought this was a joke. - Anika Malone

Interesting but I'll stick with my iPhone - Bob

lawl - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

lol, i'll stick w the g1 until the g2 - Kyle Weller

Apparently very few negatives...! - Zee. Just Zee. via Bookmarklet

*groans* - Allison

I tested it for the last few months and really put it through its paces. I assume it was going to suck badly, but after using it for a while, I came away surprised by how good this whole suite of new services turned out to be. - Frederic

live photos... is that like a video broadcast? Qik or Flixwagon maybe? - Jon Price

The guys at 37 Signals had indicated quite a while ago that they were planning to port Basecamp for the mobile web... - Glenn Batuyong

Does that mean YouTube will be public property like the radio spectrum? - Benjamin Doherty via IM

He wouldn't be the first high government representative doing something like this. Queen Rania of Jordan encouraged a video debate there in the run up to Youth Day in August and the British Royals have a channel there without comments I believe, with archived videos. But I don't think it's a good idea to have the weekly presidential address. At least not JUST in YouTube. Is he doing the video with some other TV or video companies or is it just YouTube? - Cibeles

I'd love it if Gordon Brown did this, oh wait, no, maybe not. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I had faster-than-T3 conx at Iowa in the 90s... but uiowa.edu is broke, you've gotta www.uiowa.edu . why?!? - Andy Sternberg

I can tell you why - budget crunch. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

Lazy technical staff... - Yunus Tunak

You would think that a education that teaches programming and probably has a web class or two has such bad websites. - Chris W

Very interesting! I'll have to try it and see how it compares to Skype. - Squirrel Girl

You can only use firefox on the mac for this one, what is a bummer as well, hope they will include safari as well, or webkit in general.. - Jaap Willem

gmail's color scheme in that screenshot is different, and the ui a little bit cleaner, looks like the one they used when they introduced aim support in gchat http://googlesystem.blogspot.c... - Mateo Yadarola

is it just me or do you yahoo change front pages like we humans change underwear? - Zee. Just Zee. via Bookmarklet

Yes, Zee...I think they do. - Anika Malone

Had that via Yahoo! Pipes last year. whooptydo. - Joel Bennett

Zee, there's not much of this shit that you can really rely on - but we still do and the world is better for it, imho :) - Marshall Kirkpatrick via IM

oh no doubt - i just mean in this case, i'd rather have it built into google reader rather than use yahoo pipes - Zee. Just Zee.

if only someday concept would become reality, not holding my breath - Kim Landwehr via Bookmarklet

wouldn't it be nice to have such service on a mobile device? :) - Goktug Gedik