Larry Page's University of Michigan Commencement Address

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know how, if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning?

Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and... I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work.

The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn't even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!

Seagate and AMD demo 6 Gb SATA just in time

Seagate and AMD are the first to demonstrate a complete implementation of 6 Gb SATA .  3 Gb/sec SATA is standard today.  6 Gb/sec interfaces will ship on products in late 2009, braking the drive bottleneck and giving us information twice as fast. With a next-generation high-speed data transfer disk latency is a thing of the past.

Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

Stephen Wolfram  has been hard at work on an ambitious project he calls Wolfram|Alpha.

You may recall Steve's earlier projects Mathematica and A New Kind of Science

Steve's projects are never finished, but this could very well be a new paradigm for using computers and the web.

New LTE Innovation Center Will Foster Wireless Growth

LTE - Long-Term Evolution could bring us broadband wireless with speeds of up to 80Mbps

Verizon Wireless expects to foster creative solutions connecting people, places and things wirelessly on its 4G LTE network by creating the Verizon LTE Innovation Center, which will be based in the suburban Boston community of Waltham, Massachusetts.

With support from founding partners Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent the mission of the Innovation Center is to be the catalyst for early development of non-traditional products for use on LTE networks. A number of companies have already expressed interest in the Center, which will be solely focused on helping Verizon Wireless technology partners quickly develop and bring to market new and innovative LTE-based solutions within the consumer electronics, machine-to-machine, and business products segments.

Social networking is enabled by internet applications providing us with endless opportunities for sharing short updates about our lives, activities, thoughts, ideas and location. Followers on Twitter get to know you and our world becomes a smaller place.

I'm fond of saying every Tweet is a dot and a thousand Tweets paint a picture. When you Follow someone on Twitter it's not necessarily the content that's illuminating, it's the when, where, why and with whom.

Twitter and status updating - Report from the PEW Internet & American Life project.

  people of earth...

A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant    knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies.

Read the Manifesto

These markets are conversations. Their members communicate in language that is natural, open, honest, direct, funny and often shocking. Whether explaining or complaining, joking or serious, the human voice is unmistakably genuine. It can't be faked.

This thoughtful and honest collaboration was achieved ten years ago, but it's referred to more often then it has been read.

The Elegant Universe is a three hour exploration of the physicists operatic journey to tie sub atomic particles and electromagnetic forces into one unified story of strings that dance and sing. You can stream these three episodes of Nova - Einstein's Dream, String's the Thing and Welcome to the 11th Dimension.

String theory is the best story yet of who and what and where we are.

Hunting the Hidden Dimension

The PBS series NOVA took on the fascinating quest of mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry. Irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries of mathematical understanding, but after applied research on IBM's mainframes these remarkable findings have deepend our understanding of nature and are stimulating new waves of innovation.

Watch the video in high resulation and check-out Benoit Mandelbrot's game changing book The Fractal Geometry of Nature 

If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?

Johnny Chung Lee had an idea and rather then writing a paper or speaking at a conference he decided to make a demo video on YouTube. 6,215,740 views later he's been recruited by Microsoft's Applied Sciences in the entertainment and devices division, where he hopes to get the biggest wow for the smallest amount of work.