You’ve seen Twitter’s election feature that showed a select kind of tweet in real time. A few minutes ago FriendFeed released a real-time-web feature that lets you watch FriendFeed in real time. This is fun to watch!
Lots of you heard a lot of hoopla about the OLPC project (er, One Laptop Per Child). This is a strange little machine that’s aimed at bringing computing to kids around the world. It’s been a while since I heard anything about it, other than they had started shipping with both Linux and Windows, which shocked a few people in the community who saw that as something negative.
Socialtext is making big news all over the Web this morning. Here’s a rundown, later in the post I’ll talk about why.
They bill themselves as the “anti-Twitter.” What is it? It’s RescueTime, a service that keeps track of what you spend your time on. Here Tony Wright, CEO, tells me about the new service. This was part of our trip up to see interesting startups up in Seattle.
The New York Times, tomorrow, has an article about the controversy over using Internet communications tools like Qik and Twitter and whether they should be allowed to be used by members of Congress.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which US Presidential Candidate has the best tech policy? I went off to Google to answer that question. Here’s the searches I did: McCain tech policy Obama tech policy
Over on FriendFeed, which I joined in March, I’ve been quite busy. I’ve moved a bunch of my blogging time and Google Reader time over to it. How does that time translate? Well, into a few things: 1. Comments. (Those are items I’ve commented on — 1,893 so far) 2. Likes. (Those are items I’ve liked — 3,003 so far) A few minutes ago I just passed 3,000 “Likes.”
Everywhere I go I carry three phones now: 1. iPhone. 2. Nokia N95. 3. Nokia N82. I also have a Blackjack II Windows Mobile smartphone that I occassionally carry. I have three separate SIMs, er, three separate phone numbers (I only use one for voice calls, though, and my number is +1-425-205-1921). So, why do I carry around so many phones?
I almost did a Mike Arrington headline, like the one he used recently against Wired magazine, when he was frustrated that they were calling him out. It would have been so satisfying. But, I decided to play it straight. At least here. Over on FriendFeed I let my full fury out.
OK, so tonight Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed off a tiny piece of Windows 7: that multi-touch capabilities will be built into the OS. Tons of info on this over on TechMeme. Of course, viewers here last week had a lengthy discussion and demo with the guy who invented these features inside Microsoft Research.
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