You could spend over $25K on a Prius or change your home’s lights to Energy Saving Light Bulbs for a few hundreds $. But if you are looking for a free energy saver try out CO2 Saver, a lightweight program that makes it super easy to reduce electricity usage and to save on your electricity and cooling biils.
When your computer is idle CO2 Saver gets into action. It turns off the display, the hard-disk and the CPU. The less electricity produced, the fewer harmful emissions and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are released into the atmosphere.
One neat feature is the ability to see how much CO2 you’ve saved since installed (I will post from time to time updated stats), and how much everyone saved. If you are part of a ‘green group’ and using a group version (like Earth911 or Oceana) you will see how much CO2 was saved by all group’s members.
Organizations who would like to create a custom version should contact Snap and ask for one.
Check it out.
Ideacodes (Emily Chang) released a new project called Twitterverse. It lets you explore what people twitter about in a time frame (1, 5, 10, 24 hours) and display a tag cloud of the most interesting words. Once you see the list you could zoom in and see the full context inside the messages and the members who sent them.
Twitter is an amazing social phenomenon. It is also a business that I can not really figure out (how are they planning to make money if they have to buy huge amounts of bulk text messages?).
I find the Twitterverse mashup interesting as it provides a unique point of view on the lives of those who use the service especially on thier language:
- Vocabulary is fairly limited. Only 1049 words were used by the community in the last 24 hours. One caveat – not all words sent are added to the index.
- “Twitter”, “Going” and “Work” were the most popular in the last 24 hours. Does it mean people twitter a lot when they are going to work?!
- Twitter is more than just a site/product/brand. It is at the point that it turned to a verb (embody verb potential) and have spawned words like: tweet, tweets, twit, twitter, twittering, twitterrific, twitters, twittervision
I am sure one day someone will make this the topic of his Linguistic thesis.
The tag line says it all…
Back from the Web 2.0 Expo after the launch of Snap Shots. This was a very intense and successful trip:
Left the officehttp://www.idealab.com/about_idealab after the launch button was pushed and the PR hit the wires (noon) -> Burbank airport http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464257762 (2pm flight) -> Oaklandhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464257898(arrived at 3:15) -> Bart to SFhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464263933 -> Rex Hotel (checkin at 4:15) -> then to the Expo at Mosconee Center http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464265123/ -> Snap Shots Launch party at Two Restauranthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464258708-> W Hotel Bar (with Kobi and Nimrod) -> Rex Hotel (zzz…) -> breakfast and Moscone Center again (till 4pm) and then heading back home in the same route.
The feedback to Snap Shots from people who came by our booth and others was extremely positive. I also met many people I know from past life, Mike Jones and his crew were booth neighbors, Ouriel and Orli came to see the new product (and seem to like it), other friends and business-colleagueshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464258354 celebrated with us the launch of Snap Shots and we all had a great time. Shachar finally had his first drink at SF and as a bonus he also had his five minutes of famehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/464258884.
Other highlights:
- People twittered like mad
- The friends from Netvibes invited people to their party like mad
- As in real life the long tail hall seems to have most of the action
- and one Cliché to end this post, San Francisco is such a beautiful city
I was on the Expo floor at our booth pretty much most of the time. I had the opportunity to attend one session – Using Widget Syndication for Online Marketing and Measurement. Speakers were CEO of WidgetBox and Founder of Clearspring. Read/Write web has a good summary.
I will be in SF later this week attending Web 2.0 Expo. Come and say hi if you are there. Snap booth is #326 and I will be there Mon till Tue. There will be cool swags…
Just added AddThis, the popular social bookmarking aggrigation service, to my blog.
I went to Israel for a very short and intensive trip. Spent a few days in Tel Aviv and a few at the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), saw family & friends and participated in two major internet/technology events that took place that week.
The first event was Kinnernet, the un-conference created by Yossi Vardi. A crowd of about 250 creative & fascinating people were invited to spend two days collaborating, discussing, juggling, and playing.
The second event was TheMarker COM.Vention, Israel’s largest internet conference. I sat on panel called “Disruption 2.0: The Way Web 2.0 Challenges Web 1.0? and had the opportunity to present the way Snap disrupts the search market.
The conference was a great success. Over 3000 people attended the well organized event. I had the opportunity to meet many colleagues from past life (conratulations to my friends Itzik, Eran, Eyal, Amir and the rest of the InfoGin team for winning the ‘most promising startup award’) and get to know new Israeli internet professionals and entrepreneurs. Here’s a brilliant video made by two of them.
