Record Your Life

How amazing would be to record all the singles sights you have in your life. is it possible? Yes it is . Imagine you can set a camera device somwewhere in your forefront. This can be connected through a 3G network to a central server that host the all information that can be later on played and watched. Your life would be like a movie that can be edited and see it any time you want maybe shared over your social network.. A Real Truman show? 

Reasons not to be a Social Networker

Here is an interesting post regarding social networks. Can we still be cool without social networks? Six Reasons Why I’m Not On Facebook

To Tweet Or not To Tweet?

I am reading the last report on Twitter usage with very interesting findings. Besides the explosive growth of social networks headed by facebook, Its interesting the awareness that twitter have in 2010 (87%) compared to 2009 (26%). This make me think about the future of communication through social networks. Even though for the time being facebook is leading the social network market, the huge growth of smartphones can make us think in a different picture.

If mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide by 2013 (Gartner) and 63% of twitter user access networking services via mobile phone against 34% of social networks users (Edison Research). Doing simple maths Twitter will be heading social network environment in the coming future. Get use to communicate in 140 character or less.

Smartphones. Are we smart enough?

Smartphones

It's amazing how the evolution of smartphones is changing the Internet and technology environment. According to Gartner, by 2013 internet connections through smartphones will overtake the ones make over Pc's and notebooks. Additionally, the penetration rate of these devices is 8 times faster than the penetration rate of the Pc's 10 years ago.

Are we prepared to change our big screens and do everything into 2 inches screen? Kind of difficult, isn't it? What I foresee regarding to this issue, is that smartphones will replace all processing power of current devices; however we will still need a place to do our job. A dumb terminal, a screen, a projector, many possibilities. But the fact is that the processing power and even the internet connection can be managed by such a small device. Are we smart enough?

So, we are now focusing into processing power and so all these predictions have a competitor "Cloud computing”. This will concentrate processing power into a central connection and all devices (including smart phones) will use it from the central power. This is actually very possible, however it will depend who will chase the rabbit first. For the time being I think phones are winning.

The Future Market

For those interested in the future of supermarkets here is an interesting video

Google Chrome: Browser Battle

My expectations concerning Google Chrome launching were very high considering the fact that one of the outstanding features of Google is the feasibility of integration with other Google’s products. Blogger, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google docs, Adsense are part of my day to day application uses. However, from my point of view still features of Google chrome are not showing especial advantages from the integration point of view side. The browser current scenario working as a dumb terminal is one of the big flaws of the browser architecture. 

Considering that PCs and laptops have high processing resources and will continue evolving as Moore’s laws established, resources are not being effectively used. From this side, the industry of software applications will evolve into a richer client (browser) application with local processing to make a faster experience for end users. I’m sure Google’s engineers have these things in mind and in a few time we will experience that Google´s applications will run faster and better in google chrome that in the rest of browsers.  Is the client-server architecture back?

Time Management

How things have change lately with the appearance of all the devices that makes us be communicated with business and social world. PDA, Blackberry and Iphone devices, Wifi and Wimax networks, 3G technology, etc. New breed of Workers face this new business way of working scenario. The main feature of those workers are that they are ubiquitus in the global arena. There is no chance to avoid a call, message, etc. We need to be prepared for every occassion no day and night, no bad mood, not a special ocassion.

One question arise from this. Can we really improve our time management with this new communication networks?