January 9, 2007
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2007 is off to a great start
2007 is shaping up to be a wonderful year for technology. This week alone has put a smile on my face:
- Yesterday I got an invite to try out the beta of The Venice Project. It’s television for your computer, from the guys who brought us Kazaa/Skype (and using some of the same P2P innovations). The application itself is really sweet, but I have yet to find a channel I can continuously watch. My favorite thing about it: when you put it in standby, it fades out to a small white dot, just like an old tube TV!
- Today I got an invite to try out Amazon’s EC2 service. Its about time! I’m really impressed with what Amazon has been doing for developers lately. I’ve been playing around with Amazon’s S3 for a while now and I’m excited to build something with the combination of S3 and EC2.
- Adobe’s Apollo. This one is coming out soon, and it has the potential to be a truly revolutionary application. Adobe is doing a great job of building buzz through blogs, screenshots, podcasts and screencasts.
- The news the entire blogosphere is buzzing about: Apple’s new iPhone. The demos up on Apple.com are amazing; my favorite is the way you can zoom in and out of photos using two fingers! Is there anything this phone can’t do? I’m definitely lining up for this!
- Just announced! IRiver will be using Rhapsody’s new DNA system to download subscription music… over Wi-Fi! Something like this would make Microsoft’s Zune compelling. I’m really excited about Rhapsody, however, their ideas always seem a bit buggy in practice. Hopefully this year they’ll refine things and get it right. This is one step closer to the device I’ve always dreamed about: access to all music from anywhere… heck, just implant the music in my brain! If only the iRiver could work over EVDO or something instead of just Wi-fi…
- And of course, Xanga! We’ve got some cool stuff on the horizon, just wait and see!
What new technologies of the coming year are you excited about?
Comments (7)
I can’t wait to buy the Apple iphone.
Venice does look interesting – I’m currently using Democracy for most of my TV viewing. Have you used Democracy? How does Venice compare?
EC2 = amazing. Make you wish you still worked there, doesn’t it?
Apollo – reminds me of OpenLaszlo, something I’ve been meaning to try out.
iPhone.. meh. I just want a phone that, y’know, makes phone calls. This illegible screenshot of the NYT is a good example of the problems with devices like this. What good is having the web in your pocket if you can’t read it? And the battery life is a joke. I wish everyone making portable devices would just stop, concentrate all of their efforts on battery technology, and THEN come out with the devices.
Ooohhhh, is multiple protected list one of the new features Xanga’s coming up with? Please say yes!
Come on Xanga release yo’ new stuff!
EC2 is way cool. I think Amazon’s WS initiative is one of the best tech developments of 2006 (and possibly 2007 as well).
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