Carnival of Emerging Technologies #4
Welcome to the 4th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 10 good posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.
Beno Varghese presents Google Sucks (Maps) posted at Beno Varghese dot-com. Beno says, “Every time I get directions to a destination using Google Maps, the drive time and miles that it displays is longer than what it actually is.”
Phil B. presents The Price of Progress posted at Phil for Humanity. What do you think would happen to the prices of large flat televisions if even larger TVs were not going to be made and the economies of scale of all manufacturers continued to increase?
Kevin Kozlen presents Pen Mightier than Keyboard posted at Marketing & AdBits Blog. A new pen and paper technology that may change the way we fill out forms or the way students take notes.
Paulo Tioseco presents The Next Generation of Internet Applications posted at Paulo Tioseco. The main reason for the success of Internet Applications is its client-server architecture. The success of this architecture is also the reason for its limitation — it will just remain client-server applications. Grid Computing transcends these limitations and presents to us another paradigm for creating Internet Applications.
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Victory In My Battle Against Feed Scraping Content Thief 4Comedy.com posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog. Madkane emerged victorious in her battle against the one of the RSS feed scraping content thieves. The issue is technical. A must read for everyone.
Matt presents Microsoft Surface first sighted two years ago? posted at Surface Sightings. The recently announced Microsoft Surface apparently made a cameo appearance in a movie - two years ago.
Anja Merret presents Chatting to my generation - Powerful new invention posted at anja merret. Anja says, “This is my kind of invention. A team of scientists at MIT have demonstrated their, still in its infancy, new technology which has been called WiTricity.”
Only Three Notes presents Get a DeskTop posted at Only Three Notes. There are tons of good reasons why still you should prefer a desktop over a laptop. This is true that a laptop gives you the flexibility of carrying your computer wherever you go. Anyways, there are also equally good reasons why you should consider a desktop over a laptop if you had to decide between these two.
Jeremy presents Blue-Footed Booby Tooth posted at WTTF: Welcome to the Future. Here’s a funny cartoon for anyone that watches just how many bad ideas are generated by companies.
Brian Wallace presents AIM new bots again posted at NowSourcing. Explanation of the new chatterbots that started appearing in everyone’s AIM buddy lists.
That concludes the 4th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 05 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.