Thursday 25 February 2010

Some links + commentary

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8531170.stm?ls

Always interesting to see new ways of saving the world, and these guys seem to have a business model worked out already. I think its one thing to have a cool eco-idea, and something completely different to have a may to monetise it. Reading through the company website, it seems they already have a few projects on the way, with big businesses seeing this as a way to stamp "Carbon Neutral Company" on their letterheads. So much the better, and it would be pretty cool to see a recycled plastic house. Maybe a time lapse video of one being built would demonstrate the ease of use in difficult locations?

Extra points for the company that gets this stuff working in Lego brick form...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/street_view_frogmen/

This is brilliant, if a week or so old by now. I suppose google has enough of a sense of humour about it to let it stay up there, we can hope so anyway.

Its interesting just how much information Google has on us nowadays, far more than simple web searching histories of yesteryear. During my mornings RSS feed reading, I decided to join twitter (and blogspot), and began to connect to all the feeds that I normally read through the RSS feeds. TechCrunch offered to let me follow them through Buzz, which is part of GoogleMail, which Blogger allowed me to sign in with in order to set up this blog. So I have a blog, webmail, a social networking site, and rss style aggregation, as well as search histories, all under the watchful eyes of our mighty Google overlords.

Theres probably more I havent considered yet. Now consider you can have google chrome as a viewer to the intertubes, android on your HTC google phone, and the fact that these guys have photos of your house, front door, car *your life*.... we are very lucky they've decided not to be evil. Oh, and chances are this data is stored and cached on a google server somewhere, (or more accurately, hundreds of places) and you're using cables thrown across oceans paid for by them too....

When its listed out like that, I cant really think of anything they don't own!

**edit**
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/mobile-web-search-google/

as I was saying...

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