The Dutch government as of January the 1st has started the DigiD initiative to get all citizens a single digital ID that they can use for all online government services. Part of me thinks this is the way to go, another part just thinks 1984! I guess most data is coupled already anyway so this would just make thing handier to use but still…
In what’s becoming a rather influential weekly column Robert X Cringely this week corrects some of the misconceptions surrounding the supposed launch of a google box or google laptop and throws a new prediction at us. Google’s primary business plan in the coming years will not be web advertising but customised television advertising based on our browsing habits. As always it sounds rather convincing.
PBS | I, Cringely . January 5, 2006 - A Commercial Runs Through It
In Munchen Burger King appearently already used the technique of bluejacking (or bluespamming) to send coupons to unsuspecting passers by whose bleutooth connection is open. Smart marketing or unwanted annoyance?
source (in dutch): Fastfood weblog - If we are what we eat, I’m cheap fast and easy!:
retrievr is the image search tool designers (and me too!) dreamed of. It doesn’t work flawlessly yet but the results it returns now are fantastic already.
A Top Five List - Why to Use Web Services:
More and more companies are seeing the value of open APIs/web services for customers’ uses (and their own for that matter). There are holdouts, though - those comapnies that stubbornly guard their information or charge outlandish fees for their data. So, in order to encourage the growth of this wonderful form of data sharing, I’m offering up this Top 10 list of reasons to make the plunge into the wild world of web services
I posted this a while back: zengestrom.com: Why some social networks work and others don’t, but more and more people seem to be getting the same ideas lately.
NS gaat wireless: Het Parool, zie ook Barnhard.nl
try ruby! (in your browser) (via: James)
PBS | I, Cringely . November 17, 2005 - Google-Mart: “There will be the Internet, and then there will be the Google Internet, superimposed on top.”
Robert X. Cringely has, as always, a rather persuading vision of Google and the future of the internet.
(image courtesy of Paul Ford)
I just finished a first alpha of a Wordpress plugin which integrates my plazes location with Google Maps resulting in the map at the top of this weblog. When i’m online it retrieves my longitude and latitude from the Plazes server and uses that to generate a Google map with a little marker denoting my current location and linking to my Plazes profile.
So useless! so cool! 
As soon as i’ve tested it a bit more on my own weblog i’ll release it as an official (beta) Wordpress plugin just like the Last.fm plugin i wrote today.
Todo: