Mobile is the hottest these days

"Mobile, mobile, mobile" were the words of Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt this week when asked what technologies are most intriguing to the computer Web search leader.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131051-c,google/article.html

Sjekk denne bibliotekkatalogen!

Dette er litt rått, sjå venstre del av denne vevsida: http://www.myapl.org/aquabrowser/

Fujitsu Flepia i farge e-papir

Denne kan fåast i A4 storleik, og har eit batteri som skal vare opp mot 50 timar i vanleg bruk.

http://www.frontech.fujitsu.com/services/products/paper/flepia/

Her er detaljene på engelsk: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10480

Interessant norsk Vista diskusjon

Her er ein veldig informativ forumdiskusjon:

http://norskwebforum.no/viewtopic.php?t=31499

Schneier: "In the meantime, the only advice I can offer you is to not upgrade to Vista."

Some very intersting thoughts from Bruce Schneier on Vista:

It might not be as obvious as Microsoft using its operating system monopoly to kill Netscape and own the browser market, but it's really no different. Microsoft's entertainment market grab might further entrench its monopoly position, but it will cause serious damage to both the computer and entertainment industries.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html

Open source and scientific development

Red Hat has partnered with University of North Carolina to collaborate in clinical research. This is the future for science, and the winners of the futures innovation contest will be the one that has realized this.

Kudos to Red Hat for thinking outside the software box. Open source is a methodology and a mentality that is exceptionally useful well beyond software. It is something that will bring integrity and value to software. Surely, it can help to do the same in other areas, like clinical research.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/red_hat_lets_op.html

Science and blogging

Carl Zimmer has posted some interesting experiences with blogging scientific papers. As he wrote:

I suspect this situation has come about because scientists as a group are only just becoming comfortable in the blogging environment.

But, I think blogging and forum discussion is getting more and more common when the scientist get hammered out the etiquette of scientific engagement as one of the comments emphasize. It also has to find the right arenas for their discussions, but this will probably happen withing a couple of years, and then we will see a much more rapid moving scientific progress.

So, I do what any science writer does. I read the new paper and looked for some comments. I email Nick Matzke, a co-author of an earlier paper on this topic. He wasn't impressed. To register his displeasure, he wasn't content just to send me a grousing email. He blogged at length on Panda's Thumb. Commenters threw in their own two cents. Meanwhile, another source-turned-blogger, Ryan Gregory (whom I wrote about in an article on dinosaur genomes), wrote about the study as well, to which Larry Moran, himself a blogger as well as University of Toronto biochemist, responded harshly in the comments, saying that the paper should never have been published. (Moran, Matzke, and others complain about the methods the ASU scientists used to identify related genes.)

http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2007/04/17/when_scientists_go_all_bloggy.php

Young scientists flock to networking sites.

The social network activity at Nature's website is something I think will become very common in the near future. Here is an article about it: "Young scientists flock to networking sites."

Here is the link to Nature Network:
http://network.nature.com/

Google Earth show what happens in Darfur

I would recommend to check out the last version of Google Earth, it has changed a lot, use the upper right corner button to lower the horizont. Also Google has released a map over the terror in Darfur that is very sad to see. Here is more information about that:

Reuters: Google Earth maps atrocities in Darfur

Why GNU/Linux is Better

Recommended reading for all new GNU/Linux users here:

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

YouTube’s Favorite Clips

Vidmeter, which tracks the online video business, determined that the clips that were removed for copyright violations — most of them copyrighted by big media companies — comprise just 9 percent of all videos on the site. Even more surprising, the videos that have been removed make up just 6 percent of the total views (vidmeter.com).

New York Times

Index of Economic Freedom and Globalization

Interactive mapping of globalization and economic freedom here.

http://www.macrofocus.com/public/products/infoscope/datasets/economicfreedom.html

Linux Media Center Edition for Ubuntu

Here is an ADDON for Ubuntu, should be MUCH easier to get a Linux Media Center up and go from now on.

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Ubuntu including a 10' UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills.

LinuxMCE

Soon the UbuntuStudio will be launched as a package for video/music/graphic editors work.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

Open Course Ware and publishing on the web

I discovered on the Open Course Ware website that they use the http://www.abinitio.com and I clicked on it and found it to be interesting.

‘Microsoft sucks’, says top blogger

At a “global summit” of its most-valued software developers, Microsoft repeatedly declared that it would “win” in search and other parts of its Windows Live internet strategy.

“The words are empty,” Scoble responded. “Microsoft’s internet execution sucks (on the whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks. If that’s ‘in it to win’, then I don’t get it.”

He continued: “Microsoft isn’t going away. Don’t get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the inter-net? Come on.

From Times Online

Index Data Masterkey is out for demo

http://mkey.indexdata.com/demo/

Dataverse Network in alpha-version

This is really really big, check it out!

http://drupal-test.hmdc.harvard.edu/frontpage


"Tools for Research (A Biased Review)" (click on "brainwash" and see an interesting figure.

Commentary: Taiwan notebook players sound off on Linux

Commentary: Taiwan notebook players sound off on Linux: "OEMs, on the other hand, noted it is less costly to produce Linux-based notebooks and demand at the lower end of the market is worth developing. And while the authorization fees for Windows entry-level education OS edition in undeveloped countries are around US$40, those for Linux OS are nearly free, the OEMs noted. Therefore, the OEMs say they are optimistic about the opportunities a shift to Linux-based notebooks presents."

Open journalism

"Essentially, we're building a software platform for journalism 2.0 - open source and extensible - which we believe will bring new dimensions of creativity to news gathering."

Libraries Integrate New Tech

The operating hours of Harvard’s libraries can now be accessed by anyone with a Web-enabled mobile phone, the latest technological innovation available to patrons following the debut of a new search extension for the Firefox browser.

Read more here