Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talks about Live Mesh

In this transcript (with a link to the video of the interview), Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about Live Mesh - a platform to seamlessly synchronize data and settings from an individual's many devices.

Semantic Web and Collective Intelligence by Nova Spivack

This blog post written by Nova contains a very high level view of the Semantic Web and what it means in the evolution of the web.

Video: Bill Gates at U Waterloo '08

http://communications.uwaterloo.ca/events/billgates/videos/billgates08.html

China's Internet phenomenon

China's Internet is a result of their culture, demographics, and political regime:

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10608655

Bill Gates talks about "creative capitalism"

I find this to be an interesting concept.  Our market economy is driven by incentives.  If we can create incentives to work for developing countries, perhaps we can see a wave of effort to help the needy.  What do you guys think?

Doraemon - a new section in my blog

After some thoughts, I've decided to start a new section in my blog called "Doraemon". It will have the corresponding label name. You can get to it by clicking on the corresponding label on the right.

The name came from a Japanese comic book I loved to read since I was a kid. Doraemon is the name of a robot from the 22nd century that came back through time to live and help with an elementary school boy named Nobita. Nobita is what some call a "loser". He gets bullied around, has crappy marks, lazy, and even a little perverted. Since his life is chaotic, Doraemon was sent from the future to help this poor guy out. He has all the fun and magical gadgets from the 22nd century to help Nobita out in times of need. You wouldn't believe some of the tools that he whips out. You can think of Doraemon as the eastern version of Star Trek.

So what is this section about? Well, I find that I go through many situations thinking "well, wouldn't it be nice if we had a tool to help me out?" What about a magic oven that cooks your favourite food and optimizes it by looking at what you have in your frige? What about a helmet that transfers knowledge from one person to another? This section will contain my dreams about the future technology, and I'd love to hear your thoughts as well!