VERY Simple to Use Video Chat Rooms

0REALLY old news on this one. This is not your usual lame-o bundled one-to-one webcamware like Netmeeting, etc. This is actual multi-participant video conferencing software that you can slap on any web page. Appears mostly frequented by tragically lonely kidlings of all ages, but that's beside the point. The blog started a year ago, this month.

Categorical Search

00This idea is sufficiently retro that it almost doesn't even qualify as new. After all, Yahoo started out as little more than a list of categories, from which users self-narrowed the search on the front-end, after which users could either browse, or search more specifically. It's seeing a resurgence lately, with a few "new" twists like tagging; as if tagging could still be considered novel; but anyway you look at it, you're Too Late, Somebody Else is Already Doing That. E.g., take a comparative look at accoona - News Search - "Net Neutrality" versus Kosmix - US Politics - "Net Neutrality".

Whoso Prepareth A Place for the Mind-Uploaded Future Metaverse?

0That would be the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) working on incomprehensibly crude, yet nonetheless essential early conceptualization of this potential posthuman environment in Second Life.

Ethernet Everywhere

0Oh, I know! The internet should go REALLY FAST and Ethernet should be EVERYWHERE. What an original thought you've had, there. NOT.

Especially if you live in or around Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or Santa Clara, CA. Of course, we tried to get Palo Alto to think and act toward these ends in 1997 ... but you know The People's Republic of Palo Alto reputation for leadership, right?

Actually, MetoFi, Google Wifi, and several others nationwide and worldwide have been doing this for some time now. So this definitely qualifies for the Too Late, Somebody is Already Doing That roll call.

Oo! Social networking + Tags + Music ... we'll be Trillionaires!

0Um, or not. Long ago done by Last.FM. It's called scrobbling, as opposed to scrambling, which you may now return to, in the eternally vain pursuit of the Truly Original Idea.