To anyone watching, it seems like magic. To a user, it becomes indispensable.

[ Sounds interesting. This kid is obviously pretty impressively smart and motivated. It'd be hard not to expect good things. -k]

Crafting a Revolution with the Brother of the Macintosh

] Someday in the future, once people have stopped giggling
] about how all telephones once were wired to the wall,
] they'll still have trouble containing their laughter
] about laptop computers.

[ Certainly not a new idea at all, and i know lots of people have discussed this stuff at length, from the simple act of having your ~/ on a USB flash drive, all the way to complex schemes like this one, still, it's a promising line of research and i think one which proves to be very interesting... -k]

Virtual project may one day let your work jump from computer to computer without interruption

[ Interesting article... touches on a lot of things that I enjoy thinking about... many things i'll need to read more about later. -k]

A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools

] Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), Sony
] Corporation(NYSE: SNE) and E Ink Corporation announced
] today the world's first consumer application of an
] electronic paper display module in Sony's new e-Book
] reader, LIBRIé, scheduled to go on sale in Japan in late
] April. This "first ever" Philips' display utilizes E
] Ink's revolutionary electronic ink technology which
] offers a truly paper-like reading experience with
] contrast that is the same as newsprint.

[ This is an area I follow with some enthusiasm, since I love to read. I'm still not sure how i feel about ebooks... there's something missing in the sensual experience -- the texture of the page, the smell of ink and paper, the heft and solidity of a bound novel. I can't help but think that this line of thinking will expire, like most traditional modes, as current youth grow up with the new modalities. I see myself already becoming the oldster, lamenting the lost experience offerd by paper books, while the kids snicker about silly old men not being hip to the present. And I'm only 25. Anyway, I'm curious to see what the MS community thinks about all this.

Leaving behind the philosophy, i think this device, as a product, needs to lose the keyboard, add a slick pen interface, and be wireless. Then it's existence as *the* newspaper is solidified... constant realtime updates to news content from the source(s) you choose, an easy means for annotation and bookmarking, clipping and forwarding news objects.

The evolution towards Star Trek style tablets continues. -k]

Latest Ebook venture...

[ Hot damn this is cool. -k]

The DELCA project

A light-tech proposal for improving the efficiency of RSS consumption, and reducing the burden on publishers wishing to offer more than abstracts via RSS.

Yahoo! News - BitTorrent and RSS Create Disruptive Revolution

IBM's on it too... doing similar things to the Chandler project... things i've been dreaming about for years. The only thing they're still not doing is letting the computer do the categorization and filtering for me (i.e. semantic analysis, automatic extraction of todo's and events)... chandler aims to provide more of this kind of assistance.

this is what it's all about, and as soon as i have it, and an always on wireless network connection for my laptop/tablet, my dreams will be reality. a bluetooth or UWB headset that uses my tablet/laptop to make phone calls over the existing wireless link would be a-ok too, just to save me the trouble of carrying that pesky cell phone.

Remail Website

William Mitchell, the head of the MIT Media Lab media arts and sciences, has written a book, "Me++"

] Me++ describes the move from virtual reality - the old
] 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm - to
] "augmented reality" (AR), in which ubiquitous computing
] and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to
] the real world.
]
] Mitchell muses on how AR will change our sense of our
] selves. Me++ is "a play on C++, the popular programming
] language. Among programmers,++ means incremented or
] extended, so Me++ suggests the computationally extended
] self." He suggests we should no longer think of ourselves
] as "fixed, discrete individuals", but as nodes in a
] network. "I am part of the networks and the networks are
] part of me. I am visible to Google. I link, therefore I
] am."

"I link, therfore I am," has resonance for MemeStreams.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | I link, therefore I am

] Seoul, South Korea - Kim Won-jung walked up to a vending
] machine and bought an orange drink. But rather than
] insert coins, she paid with the press of a cellphone
] button.

given how the US lags behind most everyone in cell phone tech, how long 'til we can do this here?

IOL : Do you accept cellphone payments?