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Laszlo does shine for me. Finally I found my mail client to quickly browse through tons of emails from my user-groups.

I agree with Scoble calling it the higher definition Web.

G Base is live. I just visited the site and poked around. It allows you to upload any kind of data, and then tag it using your G account. Users can also create tags (labels) and attributes for those labels – and in time the community will have created a set of commonly used attributes for a set of commonly used tags – democratization of metadata.

I guess that we are about to find out the answer to questions like, “Is the world ready for a centralized repository of content contained in a database owned by G ?”, “What does a fileshare in the sky look like ?” and “What services / editors will Google provide around that repository ?”

Actually their existing infrastructure should allow creating services like G Base relatively easily – it naturally fits their BigTable semi-structured storage DB, they just need to index over that information so it becomes searchable.

To know more: http://base.google.com/base/about.html

WSJ has an article titled Google Expands Search Options

Remember Apple’s 1984 commercial? Praised and touted by marketing experts as the best TV ad of all time?
http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html

Apple has been using them to great effect for years now to sell products that couldn’t really distinguish themselves if you tried a straightforward commercial.

Now Microsoft uses this idea to sell xBox360. Itz an "easy, don’t bother" type of ad. That is how you sell a product with millions of cool features in 30 seconds. Get people interested, let the games sell themselves and the boxes with them.

I am impressed with the choreography of this xBox360 ad.
http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/video/xbox360-ad.wmv

Remember the mosquito ad for xBox 1?
www.hoekstraonline.net/downloads/xbox/mosquito.wmv

modaz - thatz me.. mohaNdaZ under a new brand.

Also modaz has been my IM nick name for sometime since I bought my new murano - itz nick name is mo and hence m0+daz = mOdaZ.

I am retiring my other blog which I created and forgot on July 17 2004.