Time to Start Your "VOLOG" ("VILOG" ?)

Another cracker from google: Audio Indexing!
Maybe its time to start posting voice (volog) and video (vilog) to our web logs instead of text (i hate typing you know that) and getting google to convert them to text...
One killer application that pops in my mind is for those large corporations to get rid of those bold men in Wall Street. 'Cause all they do is to listen to what other people are saying and map them to some actionable digital content!
Speech to text has been around for ages, but given the low accuracy and high processing power requirements their use was limited to sophisticated applications.
Now with google's monster content repository (youtube) and unlimited CPU power that it has, its time to re-think what can be done when "your computer can listen".

LiveMocha: The Power of WEB 2.0

You probably have heard a lot about WEB 2.0 and cloud computing, but what does it really mean to us?
Well, its all about giving the opportunity to web users to contribute their own contents and share them with others, like YouTube that you share your videos with others.
One exciting and phenomenal WEB 2.0 application that I recently came across is LiveMocha.
It's a social networking site just like Facebook, Orkut, Bebo and MySpace but with one big (and I believe winning) difference.
It is built to help people learn foreign languages from their native peers across the world. Based on a mutual agreement, simply you teach someone your mother tongue and the same person teaches you his/hers.
Livemocha is a guided social network, utilising a very natural skill of its contributors and that's how it has placed it self among top social networking sites.

Enjoy your mocha!

Why I love Digsby!

Digsby is simply an all in one messenger. For those older geeks, its basic features is almost like the good old Trillian.
I love this new gadget since it saves me loads of time and space on my desktop!, here are what it has for me:
1- I can logon to several gtalk (specially those on google apps), yahoo, icq, msn and aim accounts at the same time.
2- I can logon to several email accounts that I need to monitor gmail, yahoo, msn,... and view a summary of my emails right from the messenger
3- I can view feeds from Linkedin, Facebook and Tweeter, so no need for me to logon to their websites
4- It lets me group my friends messenger ID's in a single profile name (honestly I was sick of seeing a 100 names online in my roster while they were only 20 actual humans)
5- It has a fantastic Video Chat through TokBox

And yeah, I get all of the above in a single yahoo messenger size window!

The only thing i don't like about it is support of Farsi in its chat window, for some reason it doesn't show Farsi characters in there.

They probably need to work on update service as well, I'm not very comfortable downloading a 15M file every time a new build is released.