A faster easier way to share photos-FINALLY!

Link to story in Wired
Eye-Fi has produced a 2-GB SD memory card mated with a Wi-Fi chip. You can sync the card to a hard drive or Wi-Fi network, then plug into a digital camera and click away. Photos are routed to either the hard drive or to one of 17 photo vendors - Facebook, Flickr, etc. The card's software handles scaling and compression while privacy settings at the individual sites allow you to filter what gets published.

I am test-driving the new social web browser Flock, voted by TechCrunch as one of the top 40 most innovative new products.

FriendFeed -social networking aggregator

FriendFeed as reported in TechCrunch

There has been an absolute flood of tech news. Lost somewhere in the shuffle is the private beta launch of a new startup, founded by four ex-Googlers, called FriendFeed. And while it may not get a lot of attention today, keep an eye on them. I have a feeling it will be a very popular service.

It’s a simple product that, like a ton of sleepy competitors (see Spokeo, ProfileLinker, MyLifeBrand and the more recent Fuser) is trying to help people organize user data stored across a myriad of social networks.

But unlike those competitors, FriendFeed’s simple approach may the way to win. Instead of layering another social network on top of all of the ones you already belong to, FriendFeed is taking the year old Facebook News Feed idea, which may be the single most important feature contributing to the success of Facebook Platform, and opening it up to all social networks.

Velvet Puffin

VelvetPuffin, check it out here

Hard to keep up! But Velvet Puffin's description is fairly self-explanatory "IM meets social networking". I watched part of Scobie's vidcast, but not all the way to the end, so still perplexed as to how they came up with the name....

Innovation

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2005/id20051212_254640.htm


How long can America lead the way in innovation-should they be worried about India and China?