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dears, i´ve just moved to cologne, and i have to say: Alaaaf! I feel great 😉

As siliconvalley.com reports, there are obvious tendencies, that „dust technology“ (very small sensors communicating on a new wlan standard) are being developed as open source use – that was a great thing, because this technology will be very powerful in our daily life. Even INTEL supports the opensource-movement – they want their chips to manage the large amount of data that will be generated by the dust-technology.

As Microsoft reports here more than 79% of the elder american people would rather send an email than writing a letter or a postcard. it think it shows quite well how easy-to-use technologies have a solid part in our everyday-life.

Cory Doctorow´sexperiment is quite astonishing: in order to find out the future format of books, you are able to download his newest novel. His invitation is to copy the text in any other format you like, and send it back to him – he will publish the new format on his website. Currently it´s available in 17 formats 😉

As nytimes.com reports, there will be an upcoming opportunity for online-ad sellers like google or yahoo, to enforce their revenue: As a study shows, 25 % of the online users are informing themselves about products of local dealers in the internet. Thanks marketingwonk.de for the pointer.

What a cool application: asJoi Ito’s Weblog reports,

well, i´ve thought about the idea of creating an open company, in which all business-processes are open. several comments in this blog showed obvious problems: what about your customers? do they really want their names to be open to everyone? i guess, that specialising on certain industries would make sense: webprojects for the government, social-projects: they should be professionally coordinated in an open-company. But how to steer the car? it´s quite complex in organizing thousands of developers, designers, merketers…in order to get one closed project. it would be very helpfully to find new self-organizing-forms in the internet. something like the rating system in e-bay…

If you have got an iPOD, you could take this piece of software, and turn it into a multi-mobil-information-system! It even can sync your rss-feeds. if someone owns an ipod, and works with ipod2go, please post your experiences. It really sounds interesting, though it certainly is no alternative to a windows ce-system where you can edit your entries directly.

As mail & guardian reports, there now seem to be new fights against kazaa in australia. since the music industry failed to gain a stop of the peer to peer network in the usa late 2003, MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) tries to make up a multi-legal-juristication-front against kazaa, which was victim to several raids last week.

I bet you all have already heard it: Nokia bought Symbian shares from Psion, who held about 31 % (apr. 200 mio €). So from now on, Nokia controlls the manufacturer of cell-phone software. Though it seems to be quite clever on the first look (Now Nokia holds 63,3%), smaller producers of cell phones (like siemens e.g.) might dislike Nokias power, and change to Microsoft, as software-supplier to their mobile-phones. I`m not quite sure about my own opinion: having clear standards for integrating cell-phones into daily life is definitely very important. Microsoft, de facto Monopolist of desktop-software, could manage to do that. Symbians only chance is to base its software on platform-free standards.