A great animation for Steven Berlin Johnson’s book “Where Great Ideas Come From”

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Zdnet found 10 projects Google should kill after the demise of the Wave beta yesterday.

  1. Google Buzz. What was that anyway?
  2. Orkut.  I honestly never visited the site unless by mistake.
  3. Friend Connect.  Not sure I have heard of this either, what was it or will it be?
  4. Google Desktop.  I install and deinstall this regularly.  I love it, I hate it.  I sleep better without it.
  5. Google Base.  Isn’t that where all the chiefs meet?
  6. Google Checkout.  Ahh, now I know about this one, I developed an API for shopping cart software and their API really does suck.  As a consumer I refuse to use them.
  7. Google Toolbar.  I use it and like the way it allows me to click through keywords in searches, and I use the spelligna chhecker.
  8. Google Lattitude.  Don’t they mean attitude?
  9. Google Pack.  Huh?  What do they pack?
  10. Photo Screensaver.  Not another one, surely this is innovation at its thinnest?

toolbarssuck Its Official: Google Apps Suck, heres Zdnets top 10 list Google should kill

 

On Monday Adam and I released PalRelay.  It is a solution to finding information without having to navigate the rats nest of irrelevant information often found in search results.

It is not a replacement for searching, its an enhancement that will reduce the number of irrelevant pages found by with the leverage of opinion from friends and colleagues.

It also solves issues that have been headlining recently.  Taking control of your privacy and retaining ownership of your social graph.  PalRelay allows you to decide who gets to know you and how they use that data.  It allows you to remain completely anonymous yet should a website request personalization privileges you can choose whether to allow it or not.

The impression that personalization is universally a bad thing is a decision each individual has to decide.  I like the idea that Amazon tailors its website to my likes and dislikes.

PalRelay acts as a gatekeeper to your personal information and can be used to stop commercial organisations from surreptitiously recording personal information.  Equally it solves the privacy issue by allowing you, the owner of the private data to decide who gets to see it and use it.

PalRelay goes everywhere with me except secure pages (SSL addresses beginning with https such as online banking pages).  Its useful while blogging too, see the following short video for an example:

 

951911 blog Music industry on its knees comes begging for your helpThe last joke left by the Mandybill government, the Digital Economy Act, may be taken to court by BT and TalkTalk, so says The Register.  Let’s hope so.

 

At least they didn’t think it was going to be the web.

 

Hi Eric,

I thought it would be good to send a few telepathic vibes out to you :) How long is it since you have received a message like this? Like NEVER?

I hope you enjoy your day and the Atlantis last flight was inspiring – for you and your co-visitors!

Shuttle atlantis launching breaking sound barrier1 300x261 Hi Eric! Just letting you know you are not alone

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