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Search is the most common activity when we browse the Internet. The most potent business models are build around search. What will this landscape look like in a couple of years? Will we have even better and more accurate search services? Of course yes... But will they rule the world as they do now? Probably not... Wherever we go on the Net, we leave traces. And we do more and more on line. Shopping, news, friends, vacation planning... All these activities together define what we like and what we do not like. So when we search... usually chances are we search for something similar to what we already like. And even more. Somebody with a taste similar to ours has probably already searched before for what we want to find now... So? If there are patterns likely matching our future Web activities... Shouldn't the information find us? Instead of us finding it? There are some good services employing this business model now. Take the Pandora , a perfect example. I tell it what I like and th...

I have mentioned the Duet a number of times here, but it took me longer than expected to get one myself. But it has been worth waiting... I must say my impressions after unpacking, setting up and using the Duet for a few days now are at least equal to the first impressions I had when the first "classic" Squeezebox arrived two years ago . To those of you who have no idea what I am talking about: Squeezebox is an audio streamer. It takes music in a digital form (like MP3 files on a server or Internet radio) over the Ethernet (wired or wireless) and plays it in an analog form (via an external amplifier). So usually it replaces a CD player in a living room, giving instant access to the entire music library. The server that Squeezebox connects to is a software, running on many platforms - PCs, MACs, Linuxes. Personally I use the ReadyNAS server - it comes with the Squeezecenter (the Squeezebox server software) preinstalled. The entire revolution in the new Squeezebox Duet is the ...

Today's gadget is a book. And it is not the packaging (paperback or PDF file) that matters... It is the content of course... My copy of Music 2.0 by Gerd Leonhard has just arrived... I have had no time to properly read even a part of it, but just browsing the pages I can see this is the book of the year. Or even of a decade. The decade when the world changed from 1.0 to 2.0 turning most of the economy and business models upside down. There are a few unusual aspects of this book. First, it is available as a download in PDF form. And you decide the price, pay as much you like by clicking the "Donate" button on the Web page. Or you can order a printed copy. The order system is one click, empowered by PayPal - no need to enter your whereabouts, no extra shipping and handling options... the way every commerce 2.0 site should work. The book is a must read to anybody who has anything in common with the Internet and content. Things are changing... Just a few random thoughts f...

It has been a good while I have been using my SGH-i600 . A full year. A year is a long time for a high - tech gadget in the hands of a gadget lover. And guess what... recently I have even tried to find a better phone... and I have found none... I the Samsung perfect? Not at all, but it has one of the best set of features that suit my needs. It is slim, fits nicely in my pocket. It has all the 3G goodies - HSDPA data and video calls. And it has a number one must - to - have feature - the Activesync, letting me stay fully synchronized with our company Exchange server - email (including "push"), contacts and calendar fully synchronized both ways. All that running Windows Mobile 5. Two weeks ago Asia went through the Mobile 5 -> Mobile 6 upgrade process with the SGH-i600. The entire process is precisely documented here (in Polish, if there is a need for a translation, let me know, I think I can handle that:). And finally having a little spare time yesterday, I dived in too. ...