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The new music revolution

Radiohead’s recent album “In Rainbows” is probably the most eagerly-watched musical release of all time. And that’s not because of any musical prowess on their part, but because of an experimental business model that has the power to disrupt the whole balance of the entire music industry…

Scientific advancements of the future

So the question was: what do you see as amazing scientific advancements during our lifetime that our grandchildren (or even children) will take for granted? This gem of a question surfaced on the Science Junkie forum on StumbleUpon, posed by Cindy Chesley (a.k.a. AstroGirlBunny) And as all good questions do, they inevitably get me thinking…
There [...]

‘WiTricity’ wireless electricity for all?

There was once this Serbian called Nikola Tesla who had these crazy, amazing ideas about wireless electricity.
At the time he was doing his most notable and respected work, wireless technology was as much the rage then as it is now.
He had this idea of “a ‘world system’ for ‘the transmission of electrical energy without wires’” [...]

Yahoo! Pipes goes Geo

Ye know, I just didn’t get Yahoo! Pipes at first. But now that I do, the potential is staggering.
As we inch forward, inexorably towards a web-enabled world, businesses must adapt to the web, to its new nomenclature, it’s culture and its strengths as well as its weaknesses.
In this web-enabled business world, there are services providers, [...]

Yahoo! Pipes the web your way

Right now, Seb Döll over at Pixel Milk is currently kickin’ the tyres of Yahoo! Pipes. And who can blame him?
But when I first happened upon Yahoo! Pipes, I wasn’t totally won over. But having since hacked together a live version of my regular feed, and then after watching the Google TechTalk video clip on [...]