Interesting to see how the mosquito — emitting a tone only younger people can hear — has taken off into new areas. The Welsh company that invented the idea as a way to disperse youths has already launched a product designed to attract the same people: a ringtone their uncool parents can’t hear. (Another website selling the tone, with various… Read More »
For those of you who can’t get out of bed in the morning, the alarm clock that outwits you is finally here. I mentioned Clocky in a WSJ column more than a year ago in talking about the problems of ignored alarms: Efforts to overcome this problem have been inventive, but rarely successful, says Gauri… Read More »
For those of you interested in mindmaps, I’ve posted a tenminut.es review of Mindomo, one of several mindmapping Web 2.0 applications beginning to appear. Others I’ve come across are bubbl.us and Mindmeister (still in private beta). Reviews of those to follow. Perhaps there are more. Tags: mindmaps, mindmapping, web+2.0
Paul Graham writes an interesting obituary of Microsoft, killed off, as he sees it, by applications that sit in your browser. It’s just a matter of time, he says, before every application we need can grabbed off the server. This is the kind of established wisdom of Web 2.0 folks these days that prompts only… Read More »
A useful service for those of you who have “found a favorite girl (or boy) among the many bars, nightclubs and other of places of entertainment in Thailand” and are “thinking about starting a more serious and lasting relationship or already giving financial support.” Good luck with that. clipped from www.thai-spy.com As part of this… Read More »