Wednesday, February 12, 2003

When will I ever have time to pay attention to all this - but Bill is a digerati - mover and shaker - so pay attention... ============= Gates lays out digital vision. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates outlines his vision for the coming decade in a speech given to the company's business partners. By Joe Wilcox, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] 6:55:14 PM

Considering that I've been looking at IBM life sciences consulting stuff, here is a cool idea - Virtual supercomputer.  Reminds me of Jim Henderson's download of the SETI software to his Mac a few years ago.  But here the application is more immediately useful (unless of course SETI finds the Vulcans), and the software development intelligence to create a virtual supercomputers. This concept is a cool social movement idea - people with similar interests who are dispersed, but linked via broadband can allow their computers to add their computing power to solve problems of interest to them.  Intersection of High data processing and high social value problem - eg cancer genomic research, or extra terrestrial searches... ============== IBM Grid Computing: Join with us to fight Smallpox. Through the smallpox Grid project, potentially more than two million personal computers will be linked to create a virtual supercomputer that could deliver processing power greater than the most powerful supercomputers in use today. Researchers will use this massive computing power to analyze the active proteins in smallpox and screen approximately 35 million molecules to find drugs that will target these harmful proteins, and effectively treat or prevent smallpox infections [Smart Mobs] 6:49:39 PM

"Match" -- Wireless, Location-Based Dating Service. Match Mobile, a new service to be launched on Wednesday by Match.com and AT&T Wireless, provides dating and matching for AT&T Wireless customers via their mobile phones. "Wireless will be a hugely important technology for the future for our industry, which is to connect people for the purpose of dating," said Tim Sullivan, president of Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive and the biggest online dating site in the United States. Sullivan said one of the benefits of going mobile for Match is that the new service will have the ability to pair members based on location. Initially, matches will be made based on ZIP codes, but in coming months the service will be enhanced with technology so people can locate matches within an approximate geographical location by using their wireless phones. The search engine will never reveal actual physical locations, but simply allow customers to chat only with matches within a specified radius. [Smart Mobs] 6:40:54 PM

Both of these articles look interesting - take the time to look em up... Morning in America. How do they do it? The Morning News is the kind of web publication I've always wanted to produce. They publish new stories every day, their design is succinct and tasty, they drive it all with Movable Type, I don't see any typos, and I don't imagine anyone's getting paid. I could hate them but I don't. I love them. But I also forget to go there and read the newer stuff for long stretches at a time. I may be blinded by envy. Months ago I asked the founders if I could interview them about the probably-sort-of-boring details of how they use MT to produce their publication, but I keep forgetting or other stuff keeps getting pushed up higher on my to-do list. And it's not like email interviews are time-consuming or hard to do. I'll get around to it eventually. They deserve all the attention and respect they can get, even though I don't have that much to offer them myself, probably only a tiny blip in whatever their readership traffic is today. Today, I read Starfucker, by Sarah Hepola, an Austin writer. As usual, it's good. I'm noticing that a lot of their contributors are professional writers, but they get a chance to write outside of the constraints of the paying media. Hepola's article is indirectly about how magazines work, how celebrity works, how interviews are brokered, the currency of fame, the role of journalists as gatekeepers and brokers, the process of selling out, and wanting to be liked. I recommend it. [Radio Free Blogistan] 5:09:14 PM

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