What is more inspiring than listening to your music? Yes I’m talking to you iPod fans out there who may or may not have been listening to the same playlist over and over and ovar again.. That’s what I did at least with my little mini iPod for about a year or so until i got bored with it. I never actually got round to making new playlists, mainly because I believe listening to music should also be a relaxing, inspiring and surprising experience.. okay, and I’m too lazy and easily bored to spend my sundays making playlists. Sorry for the rant here. Let’s start again..

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It’s always nice to get some kind of confirmation that you’re heading for something good. That my senses aren’t way off and that what I’m doing might even be useful in a way. Let me explain.

As you may or may not know, I am doing a graduation project. When I started I had no idea I would be heading for a social interaction tool to be used in education, but hey, there you go. And to find an article in the “newspaper” - metro, wish I could find an online source of this article - , while evaluating the result from my little three-week qualitative reseach with fourteen twelve year olds in a school for media and arts, about the European Commission starting an investigation whether mobile phones are good for our children.

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MySpace, Friendster, Cyworld, Yahoo 360, Hyves, Hi5, 43People, LinkedIn, Spaces .. the list goes on and on. Then there’s Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, Flock, Digg, Ohmynews, Current TV, NowPublic etc.. . and the all combining Technorati, Del.icio.us and Wikipedia. Almost forgot the oldies MSN, Skype, AIM, . Pretty daunting if you’re just starting out.

Why should you join? What if you join the wrong group? How many different groups do you join? Where are your friends at? Where are the interesting people at? Where do you put up your blog? How many places do you have for getting messages in the end? How does all this affect your privacy? How does this affect our usage of time? How is my sister - who is everything but tech-savvy - going to get all this and be part of this if it’s going to be as big as we like to believe it is?

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Subscriptions seem to be the way to go. No need to go and find all the information youself, get information as it becomes available. Not much has changed really, although if you put it into a slightly new perspective, such as search - via russell beattie - you might just find that hidden gem of a service. As searching is so comprehensive and covers the entire web, subscribing to keywords could be very big, and a very useful service on many levels.

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via : FlexiSpy, a so-called activity logger. What it does is keep track of someone’s calls, texts gprs activity, the lot. You are supposed to install this piece of software on someone elses series 60 phone. I’m not really questioning wether or not it’s bad or illegal to spy on someone, it obviously should never have surfaced in this form. I share the view of ‘the royal road’, in that it actually provides services for phones you could really use, to control your own usage and look back what you’ve sent using your phone when you want to. Let’s see if someone picks up on this, and creates a non-hidden version of this piece of software.

via : CyWorld is coming to America. If you are unaware of CyWorld, think of millions of Koreans - and more recently the Chinese too - who are online, on their mobiles or pcs all the time using CyWorld to stay in touch with their friends, peers and like-minded people. Join or create clubs (although I have been unable to sign up at the time of writing) and join the new virtual community.

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PHLAT from Windows has just been released. It includes an advanced filter to find any kind of information stored on your desktop, by name, date, tag, folder, type. The ‘coolest’ feature is the ability to add tags to your content, as Flickr, Del.icio.us and other utils have shown, is a pretty nifty addition to add context to your data. A functionality that works better when used among groups of people as the aforementioned utils have shown, but still quite handy nonetheless.

It all sounds a bit Google desktop to me.