dskhatri

Since we are talking about "bubbles", here's an interesting read on possibly the first bubble recorded: the Tulip bubble ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania ). Substituting hackers for 'tulip traders' and web companies for 'tulips' makes for a humorous read :)

The technology is quite old.. seems to be born out of a pre-2001 project called ASSIST ( http://rationale.csail.mit.edu/project_assist.shtml ). Microsoft has a Power Tool for Tablet PC's called Physics Illustrator that does something similar: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/table...

Jaiku makes good sense in the mobile world where written (thumbed) communication needs to be short. It can offer Google a good user-base from which they can launch other mobices (1). Great for embedding ads, and for the multi-lingual user-base

(1) MOBIle serviCES.. If I'm the first to coin this term, CC Attribution please :P