Back to the Future

The future is here.. remember when we were young and we thought of the year 2000 as a world of flying cars and hover boards (I'm dating myself here with a BTTF reference..)? Today on the New York Times, an article shows a glimpse into that future - Interactive Furniture(Photo Courtesy of nytimes.com)

Courtesy of Microsoft, who in case you didn't know bought our company for $6BN, one can now interact with a coffee table viewing your very own photos on glass. Not only can you touch manage this screen, it is smart enough to move objects around when coffee mugs, etc are placed on the surface. It's a whole new computing system in the form of a table. It is also WiFi enabled so bring your hi tech camera near it and it instantly downloads your recent photos. Now that's cool. That's the future and it's now.

EDIT: Can Google get any sicker?? New Street Views on Google Maps... Ready.. Set.. STALK

"My" Spaces

Now that I am trying to be an active member for Web 2.0.. I decided that I needed a good forum for a "My" space. A number of publishers these days (Yahoo, New York Times, iGoogle)offer this type of customizable one-stop pages. Some are still in Beta but others are becoming quite usefull in having all your favorite content one page (including blog feeds like mine!). My iGoogle page below:

The F- Words

"Flickr", "Facebook" and "Flock"

In attempts to really build out my blogging, I joined Flickr and uploaded some pictures from my work desktop to it and created a badge (see to your right the flash unit with small tiles ---->)

I've been using Facebook for most, if not all of my social networking needs. I never liked MySpace because of all the clutter and the mass histeria behind the huge Newscorp purchase. (I'm all about the underdog). Now Newscorp is announcing that they will be purchasing photobucket -- an online photo hosting site.

Also I've claimed my blog on Tecnhnorati to boost some traffic to my site. Hopefully this works. Anyone know some other good ways to boost your blog?

And for the Pièce de résistance: Flock! A new web browser designed for the Web 2.0 world. I just downloaded today so I'm still feeling it out but it's already growing on me. See screenshot of my post desktop below. You can drag and drop your pictures from Flickr and add it to any html field...



So now when I comment on other blogs and forums I can add photos straight from my Flickr albums... Let's start flocking blogging!