Google recently unveiled a new feature, Mail Goggles, which could prevent you from sending that late night email you may regret come morning. Unfortunately, a breathalyzer does not magically appear and ask you to blow towards your computer screen, however, a prompt kindly times you while you perform a few simple math problems. Currently the goggles come on in the wee weekend hours, but you do have the option of changing this according to your personal imbibing schedule. Is this the type of feature we should come to expect from Google Labs? Either way, it is nice to know they have quite the sense of humor.

What would happen if Nabisco asked Twitter to build a social media project for Oreo? Chris Brogan of Community and Media blog asked this very question and in 20 minutes got a variety of not-bad answers.  An interesting exercise on how anyone can have a good idea and creativity can come quickly with the power of social media.

Wonder what would happen if someone really asked.

Check out the answers: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/let-twitter-build-your-social-media-project/

According to Los Angeles Times, Dustin Moskovitz is leaving Facebook for a start up. In this article he states that he wants to follow his dreams, to create his own company.  According to an on-line radio (www.cooperativa.cl) he wants to develop a free software application.  It will be very interesting to find out what he is thinking about doing.   As technology continues to be up dated and new tools are available to us constantly, I wonder what is next.

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The popularization of weblogs, the free access to all kinds of online content, and the reduction of advertising prices in the online environment compared to traditional media are just some of the reasons why journalists freak out about their professional future. However, it looks like media companies are battling with their old formats and trying to come up with new ideas and tools to stay alive.

An article published today on The Guardian by Jemima Kiss tells that BBC is finally getting closer to taking a more technological approach to its business using collaboration tools. Since 2004, there was a proposal of creation of the BBC Public license. The idea was that the public and businesses would be able to use company content and code to build on, play with, and share.

Steve Bowbrick, who is working on the debate about openness at BBC, declared that “The broadcast era is finished”. He affirmed that BBC has to provide web tools to increase its capital. In one sign of the changes, the corporation is already using blogs to boost dialogue.

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams wrote in Wikinomics that openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally change everything. Let’s see if the implementation of these concepts inside media companies can prevent their extinction in the near future.

The latest O.J. Simpson trial never captured the imagination of the general public. Maybe we were all too busy worrying about the financial meltdown to pay attention to more important matters. Or maybe the details of the case were not as riveting as the trial that held the nation in thrall more than thirteen years ago.

Perhaps there will never be another court case that will be followed quite as obsessively as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, but if there is, twitter would be the perfect tool for staying up to date on every twist and turn of the proceedings.

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My Blackberry user friends have all chuckled when I complain about my iPhone woes, and clearly I’m not the only one (see Apple’s discussion: forum: iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You’re Not Alone and C-NET’s coverage roundup here) . This makes my Blackberry friends happy, turns out their not-so-sexy phone is coming out to be a good tried-and-true reliable: the Volvo of the mobile world?* But iPhone owners seem to have an unusually high level of forgiveness for this phone.

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InnoCentive is a crowdsourcing company that unites groups or companies with tough R & D challenges (“seekers”) with people interested in tackling them (“solvers”).

The challenges run the gamut from things like creating a fray-proof satin to potential medical breakthroughs like finding a biomarker for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). The solvers are rewarded, sometimes handsomely. The ALS challenge has a $1 million reward, for instance. Read more…

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According to Kevin Whitelaw from US News, Barack Obama and Jogn McCain are waging a quiet battle in the Googlesphere to combat damaging rumors.

How this works: Obama’s and McCain’s campaigns have waded into on-line auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases, but also potentially negative ones.

The way that both candidates are using not only Google, but social media in general to attack each other and defend themselves agains each other’s attack is incredible! Definitely this presidential campaign has broken the conventions of how political campaigns have been run in the past. Certainly, social media has opened up a door for the voters to get a better sense of the candidates, don’t you think?

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