Jumping on free wifi at the mall is one thing, staying in bed on CDMA 2000 1X connection is a total other world. I’m in Jakcity, kinda living inside a giant sauna surfing the net at maggot-speed thru Dee’s cellphone. I’m supposed to get some of my work done but the heat is making me look at naughty things instead. I went to the town square last night and there were cute blondes all over the place. It was like heaven for a moment until I realized how young they were. One of them kinda looked like a cross between Alessandra Ambrosio (shape-wise) and Victoria Silvstedt (face structure and hair color-wise). She was wearing a tight white tank top with a denim mini skirt. But then the movie started and that was the last time I saw her. I watched Domino. Keira Knightley baby!! Man when life produces one hell of a tough girl like that, I go hubba-hubba like the natives worshipping the rain god. I swear Domino Harvey wiped out the blonde girl’s image fantasy in a split-second.

I’m back here on the bed surfing the web on CDMA 2000 1X - whatever that means.

Jason talks about efficient ping technology to either replace or compliment the current text madness. With one click of a button you’ll be able to send your message across without disrupting the target person too much.

Here’s a feature I would like on my mobile phone: the ability to “ping” someone with 2 or less keypresses (something that takes around a second to do), even if the keypad is locked. The idea is that when I press a couple of buttons on my phone (say, 1#), a tiny content-less message is sent to the person corresponding to that key combination. On their end, they see something like “Jason pinged you at 7:34pm” with the option to ping right back. You’d have to set up what pings mean beforehand, stuff like “I’m leaving work now” or “remember to pick up milk at the store”.

I don’t favor text-messaging much, so this might come in handy if some sort of a global standard is implemented. Another good life example:

Howard Rheingold in his book Smart Mobs gives a good example of text messaging being used for this. He talked about kids in Sweden after a party. Say you’ve seen someone you quite liked and you’d like to see them again, but don’t know if the feeling’s shared. You’d send them a blank text message, or maybe just a really bland one like “hey, good party”. If they reply, ask for a date. The first message is almost entirely expressive communication: tentative, deniable.

So why call it sweehearting?

Pings would be perfect for situations when texting or a phone call is too time consuming, distracting, or takes you out of the flow of your present experience. If you call your husband on the way home from work every night and say the same thing each time, perhaps a ping would be better…you wouldn’t have to call and your husband wouldn’t have to stop what he was doing to answer the phone. You could even call it the “sweetheart ping” or “sweethearting”…in the absence of a prearraged “ping me when you’re leaving”, you could ping someone to let them know you’re thinking about them.

I like this, but while waiting for cellphone companies to start implementing the idea I might start my own list of codes and spread them within my circle to help me send split-second messages. Something like:

01 - Where the fuck are you?
02 - I miss you.
03 - I’m sick.
04 - I’m sorry.
05 - I’m stuck in traffic.

Et Cetera…

The rumors about broadband over power lines is as old as my misery in motion, but it’s not ever going to happen. Now Matsushita brings it up again. They claim to have built a chip that enables you to use your traditional power plug to relay data. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but my doubts are high since the entire world is evil and people are totally agains’t cheap efficient technology.

This is a nifty idea Matsushita (manufacturer of Panasonic) has come up with. And if it’s for real, I’m really psyched to see it in action. Seems the Japanese-based company is developing a technology that will let you use a household plug to connect to broadband Internet. Goodbye networking hassles, hello electric socket. Basically, the socket will relay not only electricity, but data as well. Though this actual technology isn’t new, Matsushita’s tech lets them deliver broadband information at up to 170 mbps—which is even faster than Ethernet. So all you’ll have to do is attach a special device with an embedded chip (made by Matsushita of course) into a socket, plug in a product and you’ll be connected to broadband. Imagine the home networking you could do with this? Kitchen of the future? Hell yeah! The hope is to sell products with the chips already embedded, so you won’t have the extra attachable device to worry about.

From Mobilemag via Gizmodo.

This is speculation but I can’t help to think that this will embrace our future.

What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user’s precise location? The gatekeeper of the world’s information could become one of the globe’s biggest Internet providers and one of its most powerful ad sellers, basically supplanting telecoms in one fell swoop. Sounds crazy, but how might Google go about it?

What about Asia? Some multi million dollar company out there should consider this. I like Google, and nothing beats FREE, but any one person or company with too much power is prone for disaster.

What do you think?

I cherish the old days when people had to either write down important details or beat their brains to memorize them. When I was a teenager back in highschool I used to have a sheet of paper cut into tiny cards that say something like:

I’m on the verge of killing myself if I don’t get your…
Name: __________ and phone number: _______________

It was a popular way to acquire girls numbers in public places, amusement parks, baseball stadiums, etc — you name it. Of course that was a big joke and this post isn’t about the outcome, so let’s get back on track.

These days when you meet someone and swap contact details you simply pull out your cell or PDA and punch the data right into it. No need for paper and pencil, no hassle, no memory. It’s a perfect way to preserve your neurons for more important things, like watching pr0n and studying illegal chemical formulas. Then the next day when you meet that same person you would repeat the routine all over again since you had forgotten if you’ve met him/her or not.

This article on mnemonics in the NY Times Magazine talks about this phenomenon. People are using their biological memory lesser and lesser each day. Jason Kottke shares that emails are forgotten seconds after they’re read, birthdays and special occasions are stored in iCal, newsreader keeps track of hundreds of URLs, and Google remembers everything else — leaving our brains obsolete.

I personally still have hundreds of phone numbers stored in my head, dozens of passwords and maybe a recipe or two of my most favorite drinks. But the day is coming. With everything being so easily digitized these days, who needs to keep track of anything in their heads anymore? Especially when you can have them uploaded to your secondary brain. It’s like the Matrix, you wake up and boom you know kung-fu. Wouldn’t that be cool?

Damn!