Knowinga

Some influentual webguys are starting the standardization process to extend the functionality of an emailadress: to be used as an personal identfier and a place where more (personal) informatlon can be stored and accessed.
Google would increase their power even more if this potential standard would succeed. Lets watch this carefully! More…
http://tinyurl.com/webfinger

BigBroogle peaks now  in your wallet… what’s next….
Google tests credit-based ad targetting.

Goed afgewogen analyse  over de spanning tussen de voordelen van gepersonialiseerde dienstverlening en de eindgebruiker de controle wil behouden over zijn leven.  Afwijzing van Google’s “goed en slecht” retoriek.  Chris Jay Hoofnagle laat zien hoe Google in de loop der tijd de privacy policy heeft aangepast o.a. de vaagheid in de tekst neemt steeds meer [...]

You can get a nice visual representation of your blog, this is the “wordle” for knowinga. It is not (yet) a webservice, but worth a look, a cool idea. Enter your blog url and an tagcloud image is produced for you. See http://wordle.net/ Please note Cuil’s tag is pushing Google!

The launch of Google Lively (Avatars connected to be connected to Google Talk) is the first time that I observe Google introducing a disappointing “me too” service: nothing new less functionality then others. It is remarkable that there is no integration with the Google Sketchup platform for building 3-d objects.