Carnival of Emerging Technologies #5
Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. We have received 12 posts for this edition. Here are the posts in the order they were received.
Jimson Lee presents 10 Reasons Why I Love Google posted at Speedendurance.com. A great read for any start-up, club, group, or organization to collaborate and be more productive with your time, especially when on the road traveling and not spend a fortune!
Chris presents Wushu and the Second Cultural Revolution posted at Martial Development. Web 2.0 looks an awful lot like Maoist collectivism. Will it prove to be a similarly destructive force for modern culture?
FitBuff presents How a Digital Scale Analyzes and Calculates Your Body Fat Percentage posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. Holy Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis, Batman! Body fat scales, though not perfect, are a great way to track your general body composition progress, and greatly outweigh (pun intended) the benefits of a boring, traditional scale.
Matt Hodkinson presents The iPhone and VoIP; Revolution or Pricey Gimmick? posted at The VOIP Provider Guide. For the most part, the technology of the iPhone’s WiFi capacity, Address book integration, 32-bit Operating System is all the basis needed to start bringing mobile VoIP to the mainstream. The particular SIP protocol that works with mobile phones is especially situated for this technology.
Marc and Angel presents 7 Google Searches I Wish I Could Take Back posted at Marc and Angel. Google Web History has been around for about a month now, and what a fantastic tool it is! Fantastic… until you start combing through your search history and realize you wish you didn’t make some of those search queries after all.
Beno Varghese presents Listen to your PDFs posted at Beno Varghese dot-com. Beno received the following information from a co-worker. I didn’t know that a feature like this existed within the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Phil presents All Intelligent and Sentient Beings have a Right to Freedom posted at Phil for Humanity. We are entering an age when technological advancements will allow other intelligent and sentient beings, besides people, to come into existence; however most governments are not yet prepared to deal with this eventuality.
Deb Serani presents The “Eyes” Have It posted at Dr. Deb. Iris scanning can now detect personality patterns.
Jeremy Aldrich presents Response to “Why Second Life Will Never Go Mainstream” posted at Global Citizenship in a Virtual World. It’s been said before but it bears repeating: SL has a lot of shortcomings, but it is the kernel of a new Internet platform that has great potential, much like the Web in the 1990’s. Are you going to shoot it down or make it better?
Brian Wallace presents 37signals: Basecamp / Highrise Review posted at NowSourcing. Brian’s review about the popular 37signals products - Basecamp (web based project management) and Highrise (simple, web based CRM).
Wilson ng presents Technology?s Role in our Lives posted at Reflections of a BizDrivenLife. Wilson asks, “If we see ourselves years into the future, and technology capability is not an issue, on what areas into our lives should technology come into place? Is it to eliminate pain? sorrow? grief? inconvenience? Will we use it to shield us from the ugly realities of life and for us to increasingly use it to attain ‘virtual’ happiness?”.
That concludes the 5th edition of the Carnival of Emerging Technologies. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here 0n 20 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.