18th
Top 20 Coolest things in Tech
Earlier today I had the opportunity to meet with a great group people and discuss the top 20 coolest things to happen the Web 2.0 sector in the last 3 weeks. Considering how others could benefit from the list, I’ve pasted it below. Enjoy!
Apple’s New Store Design: The Cube is the Store - When looking through the wall of windows on one side, you can see straight through to the other side of the store and out another wall of windows. If that wasn’t enough to give you a feeling of space, the Scottsdale store also has a 75-foot long skylight.
PatientsLikeMe - A site that provides people with serious conditions a chance to report on the efficacy of their treatment, their unique symptoms, and (if they wish) to connect with the researchers in the drug companies who made the treatments. It’s a new closure for the feedback loop of medical research.
- The New Decision Engine From Microsoft
- Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions
- Cashback
- Bing Posts Second Week Of Gains
- What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?
- “We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the tools we take for granted.” - Tim O’Reilly
- “In answering the question, the team re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud.”
- Palm Pre: Palm is also somewhat psyched on its Touchstone, a inductive charger that lets you just place the phone atop it for power (it even snaps into place thanks to a few well-placed magnets).
- iPhone 3Gs:
- iPhone 3.0 OS: Apple has created an API that allows developers to connect to external hardware via not just stereo bluetooth (a feature not fully implemented until 3.0), but through the Dock connector as well. The newly added ability to use external hardware in concert with the iPhone’s software is going to open many doors for the phone.
- Controller-Free Gaming & Entertainment
- No Strings (or Controllers) Attached
- Full-body motion capture for XBox 360, as game controller.
- Video
- 44 percent of people (IT professionals) said they were “very satisfied” with the beta vs Vista could only find 10 percent of people who were satisfied
- Windows Touch: Gestures powered by Surface - You can move backwards and forwards through the page history just by swiping the screen. Pinch zooming is fast too.
Chartbeat
- Sexy Web Analytics
- Realtime Count of Users & what they are doing on/off the network
- Google Analytics = Trends & Historical Data
- Chartbeat = How many people are on your site and what they’re doing
Google Squared - G^2
- Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic
- Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes
- Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in.
- Example: roller coasters
- Subscription Business Model
- Hulu Desktop App - Cancel your cable - watch TV online
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