Dat u het maar weet: er waait genoeg wind op aarde om de mensheid zes keer van stroom te voorzien. Jammer alleen dat het niet altijd waait waar het het meeste nodig is. [Via Wetenschap]

“USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.” [Via Quotes of the Day]

“USA Today has come out with a new survey – apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.” [Via Quotes of the Day]

CNET has posted a cool video tutorial on RSS. Great to send your friends and coworkers who are wondering about what RSS is. Thanks to Terry Heaton for linking to that. Yeah, that’s on my linkblog too. Update: Dave Winer is asking “where’s the credit?” [Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]…

“And yet, nearly anyone following the messaging and collaboration space closely plainly sees that it is the component-oriented Lotus Workplace, not legacy Notes/Domino, where IBM is going to commit its resources long-term. Workplace is less expensive, is Web- and/or rich-client-based, and is built in the J2EE-based WebSphere environment. IBM probably…

“By 2007, Microsoft envisions its Portable Media Players will hold up to 124GB of data, including 1,000 purchased songs recorded in WMA Lossless; 10,000 subscription songs at 128 K bps; 40 hours of standard-definition video; and 1,000 digital photos. Power users would require more storage” Microsoft Media Players to Boast…

Commerce One, an e-business software producer that valued at $20 billion at the height of the dot-com boom, is nearly out of cash and preparing to shut its doors. [Via eWEEK Technology News] Together with Ariba, this was one of the major players during my .com adventure a few years…

Lots and lots of rumours about Google and IM. Hello (part of the Picassa purchase) is an IM application — Windows-only, proprietary protocol, used for image sharing It is more likely that Google will line up behind Jabber/XMPP, since: many other IM vendors are lining up behind SIMPLE (which is…

Get ready for TVIP or otherwise known as TV over Internet Protocol. According to Consultancy Multimedia Research Group, there will be around 15.6 million TVIP viewers by 2007, up from a few hundred thousand today. [Via eHomeUpgrade] st Interesting developments. This will probably mean hundreds of new TV channels to…

“Microsoft has publicly acknowledged similar interests in tying its MSN Music online store into MSN Messenger. In a press conference last month, MSN’s corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi described a scenario in which two IM chatters could listen to each other’s playlists and then buy the songs if they wished.…