In a much earlier post I mentioned the openmoko, the open source mobile phone. It’s a few months behind schedule, but openmoko.com is open today to take orders for the developer kits of the Neo 1973. The consumer phone is now scheduled for an October release, with 802.11 b/g WiFi. Sean Moss-Pultz put it this [...]
Facebook is launching their Facebook Platform today. This thing has the potential to be huge. Log-in and have a look at your dashboard, on the left sidebar is a newly added (as in today) control where you can control what apps you use in your profile. This is a brilliant move, giving users control before [...]
Time magazine has a poll for the 100 most influential people of the year. What disturbs me is the people at the top of the poll; Steven Colbert is #1 at the time of writing this post. Have a look at the top 5, in the order of most “influence” we have a comedian (Colbert), [...]
We are living in a great time to be alive. Cliche? Yes. True? Absolutely, and it’s getting better by the minute - with media distribution costs being next to zero there has never been a better time to be alive as a life long learner.
With education initiatives like the OpenCourseWare Consortium which include MIT OpenCourseWare - which has opened up their course [...]
I mentioned this project in an earlier post. Openmoko looks promising, a good price point at US$350 – considering the iPhone is priced at US$499 (4GB model) and US$599 (8GB model) both on 2 year contracts. Market release for the openmoko is scheduled for September 2007, developer kits are scheduled for late April release and claimed to be on target. Go [...]
The web 2.0, is this the future of education, culture, business and innovation? I feel it is, I just read Wikinomics, an excellent book full of case studies of mass collaboration, give it a read if you’re at all interested in business and/or technology. To state the obvious, the world is changing; the question is, evolution or [...]