The Guardian came out with a story named When I’m dead, how will my loved ones break my password?. Basically, it handles the same problem as my own Online Will idea the same way snail mail and email handle the same problem. Here’s a quote of the proposed solution from the article. The 8 readers [...]
When you die, what’s going to happen to all your online accounts? If you don’t have a “rich” online presence, you probably don’t care. But I do. So when I die, I want someone to patch things up with everyone – my blog should be properly shut down, my Facebook status would be “Amit Schreiber [...]
I doubt I’m the first to think of that, but this idea might help cleaning the Internet of some spam. The idea is that people will install a small program on their computer that will send them from time to time (according to their preferences) some text that was publicly posted somewhere on the Internet. [...]
Imagine for a moment that there is a place where the results of all non-trivial computations are kept. Kind of a universal cache with unlimited capacity. To access this cache and get the results of a desired computation you need to specify the computation type and the problem set. For example, a computation type may [...]
One thing about reading technology news from multiple sources is the massive repeat of items in different feeds. What I would like my RSS reader (currently Google Reader) to do is group the similar items under the same category. For example, in my Google Reader account I have a gadgets folder that contains both feeds [...]
Cellphones are a necessary evil. That’s the position I adopted after reading it somewhere. I believe it’s true – these days you really can’t get along without a cellphone. Believe me, I tried. I went on as long as I could, which was until I got a car. One of the ways cellphones changed the [...]
Social networks are the big thing these days. Recently I joined two social networks: LinkedIn and Facebook. LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network, was fun to play with at first. I, too, joined the “add your friends” race and added as many as I could find (I didn’t just add anyone, though. Only people I actually [...]
Every once in a while someone comes to me asking if I want to participate on a new idea. I guess everyone wants their “million dollar exit”. Naturally, so do I. Unfortunately I haven’t made any progress lately with ideas, but I’m not pushing it – when the right idea comes, I’ll have all the [...]
A long time ago I told you about an idea I had for a lyrics database that could also be used for Karaoke (previous post link). Now I read that Microsoft’s Zune (the failing-so-far iPod competitor) is going to get a feature called “Synchronized Lyrics”. This is a reasonable advancement for digital audio players (DAPs) [...]
Another day goes by, and another questions and answers service comes up. As this TechCrunch article suggests, Q&A services are growing bigger because people are better answer-givers than search engines. Yahoo! Answers is now the biggest Q&A service around, but more and more are popping up. I already wrote about Guruza and Illumio which look [...]