Monthly Archives: October 2006
Scarcity vs Abundance
Nice presentation at Slideshare from Chris Anderson. It shows the change in our economy due to “everything everywhere anytime” structures enabled by our beloved internet. Thanks to Frankwatching Also watch Barry Schwartz about Abundance on TEDtalks and the negative effect … Continue reading
Voice Recognition Software Beats Fastest Text Messenger
Ben Cook’s fingers flurried so fast you couldn’t see what he was doing until he had done it. But when the cell-phone screens cleared, the world’s fastest text messenger was handed his first head-to-head defeat Tuesday: a voice-recognition computer had … Continue reading
Scientists develop a real Star Trek Universal Translator
A “Tower of Babel” device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another. … Continue reading
The Future of Social Networks: Communication
A great article on the development and drivers of social networks at Gigaom. I see a huge opportunity for operators to jump on this wagon. It makes a point for object(photo, video) oriented social networks to get a critical base(get … Continue reading
Nokia vs. Vodafone: and the winner is the USER
Some inspriring stuff on the Telco 2.0 blog. It tells about the shifting of control between handset vendors, operators and users. Conclusion: the user gains control. The question I have is what impact does the increasing power of the user … Continue reading
