Its is all out interests in the Tech Sector to promote the learning of Science. To that end I’m happy to support Science Week. Full request from Edelman below:

Science Week Ireland 2007 invites you to take part in the Science Week blog competition.  Everyday a Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports is up for grabs, all you’ve got to do is to tell us something about your favourite inventions.

 

This year Science Week Ireland explores this theme and illustrates just how much science surrounds us every day.  We are constantly surrounded by science, technology and engineering in the modern world. We are woken by talking alarm clocks, dress in man-made fibres, check the TV weather, listen to radio news or traffic reports, use electricity to make our breakfast. And all that is before we have even left the house.

 

We would like you to tell us a little bit about the role science plays in your everyday lives.  We are inviting you to answer each of the following questions:

v      Tuesday – Q What was the favourite invention from your childhood?

v      Wednesday – Q What invention do you want to see most in the future?

v      Thursday – Q What’s the next gadget that you want to buy?

v      Friday – Q Which invention has helped you most with your working life? 

v      Saturday – Q In your opinion what was the best invention in 2007? 

All you have to do is write a blog post on the question each day.  Why not find out what your fellow bloggers think and tag them.

Robert Cringely suggests Google will bid in the next US spectrum auction in order to offer a completely free, add supported mobile network.

Like Gmail, Google can sell a higher-end product probably minus the ads. People might find they actually LIKE the ads if Google does its job really well and isn’t too intrusive. The ultimate result, of course, is near-total Google dominance of the mobile ad space and — this is REALLY big — transferring some significant portion of the market caps of all those mobile operators right onto Google’s hips. Thanks to consumer parsimony and telephone number portability, Google over the course of a couple years would become the dominant U.S. mobile operator. And no matter what handset or protocol those customers use, the ads will be there and Google will be raking in the dough.

Brian Caulfield won the ISA Technology person of the Year last night at the Annual ISA Awards. Well done Brian, well deserved.

Paddys Valley flights booked (finally). Jaysus this having capital could catch on. Now to chase down the discount hotel booking form.

Hmmm, nice.

Googles share price rockets on the back of its Open handset Alliance annoucement. A whopping $734.

What is the Open handset Alliance? They say it best,

Welcome to the Open Handset Allianceâ„¢, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. Together we have developed Androidâ„¢, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

Michele crystallises the IEDR problem nicely,

 “…Of course the main issue at present is that there is no formal policy development process.”

This made me cry laughing.

Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison have written a formal paper entitled,

Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship

There is more to follow. Danah knows about this stuff. If you need to catch up on the history of social networks, This is where to start, its good stuff.

Did you know they predate the noughties?

I think it was Scott McNealy who said ‘Those who can’t compete, consort” when DEC, HP, Siemens, IBM and a host of others created the OSF to head Sun of at the pass in the late 80’s and early 90’s.  Well its the same old song with Google’s annoucement of its OpenSocial initiative. Suddenly its the world against Facebook.

Now, I’m no “according to Hoyle” Facebook defender but you have to smell a rat when the least open company in the world suddenly make a play for sharing all the data in world with its users.

Absolutely,  OpenSocial is a good idea, but lets follow it with OpenPageRank, OpenSearch and OpenGoogleDatabase.