The MultiTouch wall from Microsoft

“Every surface will be a computer.” So spake Bill Gates at the annual CEO Summit, a few decades ago when he promised a computer on every desk.
We got it now:

TouchWall consists of three infrared lasers that scan a surface. A camera notes when something breaks through the laser line and feeds that information back to [...]

The evolution of mobile phone since 1985

e2save, a handset retailer, has been in a nostalgic kind of mood recently, and decided to create this little movie illustrating the evolution of the mobile phone.

A new visual agregator

A new visual aggregator that tracks the activities of about 32,000 famous people. the dataset consists of a “Who’s Who” including the curriculum vitae of each noted person.
The resulting network graphs show the connections between people.
It looks like Inxight.
Take a look at this Google example

It would be nice to be able to create content not [...]

More privacy needed in Google Street View

At least you know what you can find in 3186 San Pablo Avenue (Emeryville, Alameda, California ). That’s why Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View.

In case of emergy, please visit Web 2.0 for more information

Interesting article from ReadWriteWeb: “Researchers found that blogs, maps, photo sites and instant messaging systems were better at providing warnings, help and lists of how individuals were affected than traditional sources.
The research, published in New Scientist magazine tomorrow, was led by Leysia Palen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado.
Dr [...]

Women like Social Networks

According to Rapleaf: “Men tend to be more transactional and less relationship building when it comes to their friends on social networks. Women tend to have slightly more friends on average.
In the largest social networking study ever done, Rapleaf sampled over 30 million people looking at social graph information across various social networks including Bebo, [...]