"Baby flattops" -- aircraft carriers built in Vancouver, WA in the Kaiser Shipyards. http://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=550
Article: Logitech Revue with Google TV Available This Month for $299
Android apps delivered to your TV!
Logitech Revue with Google TV Available This Month for $299
http://mashable.com/2010/10/06/logitech-revue/
. As we learned earlier this week, the Google TV platform will support the Android Marketplace, meaning that any app you enjoy on your mobile device will be playable through your TV. So, anything from Angry Birds to Netflix can be launched from Google TV. Like Android, the Google TV platform is very much open and expandable. Worldchanging: Bright Green: Let's Share: The Growth of Peer-to-Peer Product-Service Systems
From car-sharing to online dress rentals, solutions thatprovide services without requiring ownership offer a means to reduce consumption and environmental impact. There's now growing interest in a somewhat different type ofproduct-service-system: rather than consumers renting services from businesses, several websites are facilitating rentals (or free loans) of products between individuals. Items that someone owns but rarely uses, like tools or obscure kitchen equipment, can be listed online for friends or neighbors to borrow or rent instead of buying elsewhere.
Frenting and Neighborgoods: The Growth of Peer-to-Peer Product Rental/Sharing Systems - convozine.com
There's now growing interest in a somewhat different type of product-service-system: rather than consumers renting services from businesses, several websites are facilitating rentals (or free loans) of products between individuals.
A big part of global sustainable design is a reduction in the total amount of stuff that's floating around — especially stuff that people own, use once, and then bury in their garage or closet.
This WorldChanging article touches on fractional ownership programs like http://www.clubsportiva.com/ (exotic cars), but this new breed of peer-to-peer product rental or sharing systems is interesting to me. Sites like Frenting and Neighborgoods allow for direct rental — or sharing — of the kind of expensive equipment and other stuff that's usually purchased with one specific job in mind, and, once it's used, gathers dust. We've all got some of those. And we've all regretted having to buy it because we know we're ahrdly ever going to use it again.
How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/facebook-bigger-google/How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
Adam Rifkin Oct 2, 2010
"Remember three years ago
"In fact, I have been mulling over data from both companies, and I’m ready to declare in public my belief that Facebook will be bigger in five years than Google is right now, barring some drastic action or accident. Futhermore, Facebook will grow without needing to cut into Google’s core business of text ads, which are still 99% of Google’s profits
Finally: Instant On PCs?
** New PCs 'could boot in seconds' **
A 26-year-old piece of software at the heart of PCs is about to get an update that will make for boot-up times of mere seconds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
A 26-year-old piece of software at the heart of PCs is about to get an update that will make for boot-up times of mere seconds.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069
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