The services currently provided by mailing lists should be shown in a communications control panel that would monitor all the things the user is interested in on the Internet. Areas that are hot or have news would be highlighted, and an agent in the user’s computer would prioritize the possible sources of information and show the most important ones with the most real estate. For sure, the communications control panel would collapse threads of discussions into a single object and visualize its activity in a more useful manner than hundreds of scattered lines in your inbox.
Now, it is time to practice the virtue of patience… for a Google Wave Invite
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?”
As employees answer that question, a feed is created in one central location enabling co-workers to discuss ideas, post news, ask questions, and share links and other information. Yammer also serves as a company directory in which every employee has a profile and as a knowledge base where past conversations can be easily accessed and referenced.
MotionPortrait.com is the technology that automatically creates 3D face model from one single picture, which can be animated in a variety of facial expressions.