Six Degrees of Wikipedia

It's the Kevin Bacon game for Wikipedia. Like searching for the center of the earth, find the center of Wikipedia!

Here's the skinny:

Six Degrees of Wikipedia: "The same idea could apply to the articles Wikipedia. Instead of taking 'in the same film' as the relation, you can take 'is linked to by'. We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the 'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness)."

XO 2.0 Very close to a Star Trek pad

Pictures of the XO 2.0 (the One Laptop Per Child OLPC) show a radical departure from "standard" laptop designs. The article says much like an e-Book. To me it's more of a foldable tablet or an oversided data pad from Star Trek the Next Generation.

Here's a pic:





Here's the skinny:

Emerging Technologies - Desktops and Notebooks - OLPC Provides First Look at the XO 2.0: "The XO 2.0 takes a radically different approach from the current version of the XO laptop. This version is designed more as a e-book reader than as a traditional laptop."

Google`s $500M WiMax Bet

So google gets search and ads and android to Sprint. Clearwire gets money. We all get WiMax by 2010? Cool.

Here's the skinny:

"WiMax, which pipes data at up to 70M bps to an area that covers up to 30 miles, has been praised as a technology but has struggled to find widespread traction. Clearwire, with backing of Sprint Nextel, Google and others, plans to change that."

Google WiMax Play