July 4, 2001

Yahoo has come up with a ‘conversations’ site. Will it pick up? (BTW, the new version of Yahoo Messenger supports webcams, message archives, and file sharing.)

A bizzarre calculation on the limits of computing power using fundamentals of quantum mechanics.

Among all concepts I have encountered on the Web, this one is the most intruiging. Ideosphere has created a futures market for ideas. You put a claim on this website, and people can buy/sell coupons based on these ideas. When the claim becomes true/false, these coupons increase/decrease in value. Of course, no real money is involved – it’s just a score. Very interesting, nevertheless, to get a feel of what people think. (There’s a similar exchange for Bollywood.)

Google just goes on. They’re working on voice search now.

The new GNU C Compiler GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler.