When you hear of the vision behind AMEE — The Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine — you’ll know that this project is both hugely ambitious and is serious about helping us all change the way we lead our everyday lives.
The vision? To aggregate all of the energy consumption data on earth.
It doesn’t stop there. Their intention is that by informing people of their power usage, they can modify their behaviour, thus reducing their energy usage.
Wow.
This is not just hot air and dreams. AMEE have made a very strong start to this already and you may well have used the services without knowing.
After having seen the highly impressive demonstration of 
I’ve been with Flickr for _ever_. Pretty much as soon as they opened the site, I signed up. Back in those days, you didn’t have an option it was _the_ place to host your photo back then – Site Du Jour … and it was the best executed to boot.
The small box that the system comes in is deceiving. It contains a DECT phone and basestation, but when you examine the basestation alongside the expected phone connector, there’s a an Ethernet connector too.
You may have seen that every now and again we’ll point out new features in Google’s applications.
During a frenetic presentation at FOWA in London, Stefan Fountain from Soocial announced that their contact-anywhere service would be supporting interfacing to Outlook allowing your contacts to stay up to date.
For a long time, one option for the music business to save themselves has been to offer an ‘all you can eat’ option for music – pay a monthly fee and listen to all of the music you fancy.
Google has been going ten years this year and to mark the occassion they’ve released a version of their database as of ten years ago.
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.
We’re huge fans of GoogleMaps, so we’re chuffed to see us folks in Blighty being offered some of the treats that our Stateside cousins have been enjoying since last August