Ray CHOW

Knowledge "made in Europe"

The European commission has suggested to create the European MIT counterpart by 2010.

The Commission has launched over the past quarter a consultation to first define what will be the European Institue of Technology (EIT) missions, objectives and structure. The outcome of the consultation should be available pretty soon this year.

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Informative Light

Yumemitsuketai - a Japanese company - sells this shower head system which includes a light mechanism that colorizes the water with flashy colors depending on if it's cold, lukewarm or hot. The shower head is about  $105 piece.

via french bank atelier

(SW ) Best-Before Date

Now that the software industry is a key part and parcel of the world economy I believe it would be a good idea to establish/legalize “ Best-Before date for Software” as an effective instrument for doping the economic growth. What I am suggesting is that any piece of software has now a Best-Before date of say 18 months from the first use and to grant the software firms the possibility to remotely and gradually spoil their SW products from the date for lapsing in order to massively encourage updates. Again, what makes me more than happy is regulation …!… for example, I would prefer to be forced to migrate on Microsoft Office Live next generation  Office 2007 in full knowledge of facts.

Who wishes to implement the “RSS Republic”?

Here is a sample idea similar to co.mments.com or cocoment.com but above all which aims to makes the blogosphere more “Democratic”.

Imagine a service where anyone will be able to freely comment any post without the risk of any possible moderation/delete/disregard arbitrary cleaver.

RSS Republic is an aggregator of conversations made for all commenters and driven by all commenters.

With RSS Republic any commenter can select

any specific post in using a bookmarklet for example exactly as with co.mments.com or cocomment.com.

The selected post and published comments on the author’s blog will be available on RSS Republic

exactly like co.mments.com does on its site.

From that time anyone will be free to leave a comment within the confines of RSS Republic on the specific post.

All comments (including thoses from the author’s blog) will be organized exactly as on any real FREE blog. Only spam and criminal words will be banished !

Not only RSS Republic will send over comment moderation and delete barbarian practice but it will even be possible to comment any post which usually cannot be commented at all like for example http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/ .

Unsubscribe from so-called “moderation”

I maintain that popular blogs without free comment are at their very peak just boring “authoritative” monologs running out of steam - to nimbly unsubscribe from. 

Spams and monologs or blogs that are only open to very conventional filtered comments have all in common the same destiny ...!...

Furthermore, it is also quite stupid to believe that public blogs were made to express very heavy private issues without taking the risk of silly spamming. Come on!

«domestic» row

A group of students in London call to not be hand in glove with Google and to break up with the search engine firm this Valentines on Feb. 14th .

It's about to express one's displeasure following the recent agreement between Google and the Chinese government.

More on noluv4google.com

(however and quite ironically, G uess who dropped this news into my mailbox over the night ...)

trackbacked:battellemedia

Internet: What Will Take Off by 2011?

Clothe sales on the Internet (including tailor-made clothe online sales) can experience a tremendous success within the next 5 years. 

 

We’ll have first to do the laser scan of our entire body to get our digital model from which it will be possible to capture the separated limbs, all that stored in online database. Thereby, we will find the perfect right size for any clothe and before buying it we will be able to visualize - online - how the clothe suits on our 3D digital model …

Really Simple Suggestion

A small idea of new RSS application knocked my head this morning. What does it involve?

• a pc
• a dsl (or else) connection
• a webcam (wifi enabled)
• a mobile phone (latest generation)

  Imagine a solution that would require to install webcam(s) in your home in strategic place(s) where anyone entering into your house would certainly be filmed.

  A small software on your home pc would run to analyse pixel change so that it would trigger the recording only on motion and would stop as soon as the images are stable over few seconds.

  Any new recorded videos would be automatically uploaded in real time on the servers of whom would decide to offer this turnkey service.

  On your mobile phone a special ring tone or intense vibration would be triggered by the RSS feed generated by the server each time a new sequence of video arrives in your account.

  You would just have to pick up the line for example to automatically watch on your mobile phone the lastest video from your house.

  It could be just your kid coming from school or even a more unpleasant surprise ...

  The system would allow you - in a few clicks - to alert the guarding service company where you have subscribed for immediate intervention. Note that an option could also alert automatically your guarding service company on first detected motion and without requiring that you watch the video ...