Nothing exciting whatsoever at Microsoft Live

I'm glad I only wasted 20 seconds scanning my news feeds for what they announced today rather than spending the hours that a lot of really smart people did sitting listening to all the marketing hype and this dead demo.

Perhaps I'm just not clued in but what is all the chatter about gada.be??? Hasn't this been done like a million times over already??? Is there something new I'm missing???

Keep in mind that I only took a 30 second look at it but that is all it took for me to close the browser window.

Can someone please clue me in here.

Well folks, this is what you can expect from BabyTel customer service. Note the date my email was sent (over 3 freakin months ago). Thanks for the response!!!!

Your message To: baby
TEL Customer Care
Cc:
Subject: RE: softphone
Sent: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:56:06 -0400

was deleted without being read on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:07:10 -0400

Open source software to host torrent files on your website. Looks pretty decent.

As I suspected Cyan has resurfaced. Hopefully uncuppled from Ubisoft to do something amazing:

The Mercury News is reporting that Cyan Worlds (the company that developed Myst and its subsequent sequels) may not be a corporate casualty after all.

In an email to The Mercury News, Rand Miller writes: “We’ve had a reprieve. Managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat (that I can’t give details about yet), so we rehired almost everybody. Crazy industry. It’s giving me whiplash!” (source: Joystiq)

Where can I get one of these Hydrogen Generating Modules:

"It" is his Hydrogen Generating Module, or H2N-Gen for short.

Smaller than a DVD player - small enough to sit comfortably under the hood of any truck or car - it could be big enough to solve the world's greenhouse gas emission problems, at least for the near future. In fact, it could make the Kyoto protocol obsolete. Basically, the H2N-Gen contains a small reservoir of distilled water and other chemicals such as potassium hydroxide. A current is run from the car battery through the liquid. This process of electrolysis creates hydrogen and oxygen gases which are then fed into the engine's intake manifold where they mix with the gasoline vapours.

It's a scientific fact that adding hydrogen to a combustion chamber will cause a cleaner burn. The challenge has always been to find a way to get the hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber in a safe, reliable and cost-effective way.

Williams claims he has achieved this with his H2N-Gen. His product, he said, produces a more complete burn, greatly increasing efficiency and reducing fuel consumption by 10 to 40 per cent - and pollutants by up to 100 per cent.

Most internal combustion engines operate at about 35 per cent efficiency. This means that only 35 per cent of the fuel is fully burned. The rest either turns to carbon corroding the engine or goes out the exhaust pipe as greenhouse gases.

The H2N-Gen increases burn efficiency to at least 97 per cent, Williams said. This saves fuel and greatly reduces emissions.

It also means less engine maintenance and oil changes. The only thing the vehicle owner has to do is refill the unit with distilled water once every 80 hours of engine use (source: Montreal Gazette)

I can't figure it out either and I'm not going to waste my time trying. Perhaps its the start of Internet Bubble 2.0. Thats about the only thing that makes sense. I better start loading up on dopey business idea stocks and get ready to dump them just before the bubble bursts:

So I listened to the Skype-eBay conference call this morning and talked to many people about the deal - and still can't quite get my head around why eBay is so willing to spend $4.1-billion on a company that had sales of $7-million last year (albeit a target of $60 million in 2005 and $200-million in 2006) and doesn't seem to have a sustainable competitive advantage. Here's my second take on how Skype fits into eBay's strategic thinking:
1. Skype is integrated into eBay as a sales tool, particularly for categories such as automobiles and B2B where eBay can score high margins and healthy profits. (Mark Evans)