RSS Business Cards...

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Kunekt Kunekt Cards make your contact information available as an RSS or RDF (News) feed.Place a button on your web site so your friends and associates can subscribe to your contact information.Never again send out notifications by email, post or fax!

Interesting idea... Subscribe to a person's contact information...

Wireless Commuter Cards...

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London: RFID Tags for Underground Passes
The plastic cards integrate an antenna coil and a chip that eliminates the need for commuters to insert the cards in a slot. Instead, they can wave it at a range of up to 10 centimeters over a card reader positioned at the top of a gate or bus entry point. The contactless card then "beeps the gates, checks them in and completes the transaction within 100 milliseconds," said Thomas Riener, marketing manager of chip cards at Philips Semiconductors.

The rollout of London's smart card project began this month when the contactless cards were distributed to the staff of London's public transportation systems. Riener called the project "the first volume showcase in Europe" featuring Philips' contactless smart card technology, called MiFare. The technology is already used in volume in the public transportation systems of Moscow, Warsaw, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Ankara and elsewhere, he said.

Philips has already shipped 250 million MiFare chips worldwide, and has shipped "a couple of million devices" to SchlumbergerSema and Giesecke & Devirient, the two companies that received the contract to supply smart cards for London's public transportation system, Riener said... [Smart Mobs]

Bluefish Wireless....

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Last year at NECC, Bluefish Wireless provided conference schedules and daily conference updates for Palm OS handhelds. Anyone with a Palm OS handheld could easily download the information from one of many Bluefish Access Points. This past week at the NSBA Technology and Learning conference in Dallas, Bluefish was in the Palm booth demonstrating their technology.

magazine: Microsoft's Weblog Software Picture

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magazine: Microsoft's Weblog Software Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It's browser-accessible from any 4.0 or higher web browser and doesn't require Windows on the client. It leverages their strengths by integrating with Office, and there's no per-user client access fee. Then imagine if this weblogging tool were deployed to millions of users, all before anyone in the weblog community took notice.That scenario is real.

This article looks at Microsoft Sharepoint...

Smart Mobs - Book Summary

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Smart Mobs - Book Summary Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive.

A new book by Howard Reingold.... A companion web site focuses on the social implications of technology...