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Another day, another Google thing

What would the day be without something new from Google? Actually, this time it’s four new gimmicks:Google Co-op: lets users tag and categorize web pages (perhaps socialistic)Google Notebook: evidently coming next week, reported to allow simple clipping of things from web pagesGoogle Desktop: updated with new features such as "gadgets" that let you add functions to your page like weather, ...

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Cnet Covers Metaverse Roadmap Summit

Daniel Terdiman penned a descriptive writeup of the Metaverse Roadmap Summit in yesterdays ZDnet / Cnet article titled Mapping a Path for the 3-D web. As a whole the Metaverse Roadmapping summit was really just chock full of big thinkers trying to wrap their heads around a project that will have long lasting impacts on our society in the future. ...

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Google Calendar

That's right. Google has just launched it's new calendar application. This is another really sweet Web based app from Google and best of all it's free. All you need in an invitation. But how does it work? How do you set up meetings? How does it alert you to events? Can you share your Calendar with others? Find out all ...

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Disasters and health records

After Katrina the Society did a lot to help cancer patients recover or recreate records related to their disease. It gave impetus to discussion at the Futureing and Innovation Center about supporting a nationwide system of health records. It’s clear that some sort of health record system is badly needed for a variety of reasons. There’s an article in Wired ...

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