Google has acquired Jotspot!

I don’t know if they really “needed” JotSpot (which is a great company btw), or they wanted their people, or they just wanted eliminate someone else bought a great “web office app”, but this is *very* interesting!

I started a new blog, called IdeaPicks. I would like it to become a place where fresh new ideas and projects are presented.

Not the ones that just completed their first round of fund raising. Not the ones that will most likely make it to TechCrunch. The ones, created arround the world, by people that have no access to venture capitals. The ones that could be the next big thing if they had enough attentions and some funding.

If you know of such projects, please drop me a line at ideas-at-vrypan.net. If you think the ideas presented there are worth some attention link to them, help the rest of the world learn about them!

• Qloud
  Audio tagging? Cool!
  (tags: audio tags social media)
• Screen recycler
  Use old Macs as extra screens
  (tags: osx software)

• The Information Factories
  We used to call it the “Internet OS”, but now we are starting to see how it looks like..
  (tags: future web internet os)

• Yahoo Erotica Editor Fired for Excessive Programming
  Geek Porn
  (tags: funny culture programming)

• A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools
  (tags: s3 remote storage backup)
• Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
  This should not be surprising
  (tags: business copyright google books)

• Pageflakes
  One more “homepage” service.
  (tags: ajax desktop homepage)
• Gizmondo’s Spectacular Crack-up
  An amazing story.
  (tags: story technology)
• Replacing my home backup server with Amazon’s S3 (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  Very interesting.
  (tags: amazon s3 remote backup storage)
• Powerset, Inc.
  Is this the next Google? Some rummors say so, but who knows?
  (tags: searchengine google powerset startup)

• The Woz’s business card
  Aluminum?!
  (tags: cool)
• Google Gadgets for your website
  (tags: google widgets)
• Greek Font Society fonts (re-)released under the Open Font Society
  Thank you Greek Font Society!
  (tags: fonts)
• IBM’s Second Life Press Briefing: Transforming Business Through Virtual Worlds
  Virtual?
  (tags: marketing virtual secondlife ibm)

• Gestalt
  Awesome.
  (tags: design)
• Hard-Learned Lesson: Don’t Try to Censor A Blogger
  An interesting story.
  (tags: freedom blogging)
• CastTV Will Revolutionize Video Search
  Upcomming. Video search.
  (tags: video search)

• Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime
  Play almost any video format in QT.
  (tags: osx quicktime video audio)