Online knapsacks
You thought rumors of gDrive were far-fetched?
Look at what DivShare offers already.
Sound too good to be true? They have competition.
(and it isn’t Google).
The final piece of web 2.0
I spent some time looking at this just before the holidays. Decentralizing identity will wash away the last vestiges of
web 1.0. Its disruptive.
The next CELL from IBM
Still “large and in charge” with 10 cores. But with a die shrink to 65 nm and twice the speed.
More interesting Turkishness from Amazon
Well, Amazon has launched more than Blue Horizon lately. They are launching Askville, which has a social component involving a voting-based trust system not unlike everything2.
What is different here is the use of a virtual currency to back up all that accumulated trust. The “quest coins” rewarded for useful participation are going to be the coin of the realm in Questville.
Even more interesting, the blog claims that they will be using the Mechanical Turk to ensure every good question gets a good answer.
