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BBC Click's Ian Hardy interviewed me on the promises and perils of cloud computing for BBC visit — 275 million viewers worldwide! They additionally wrote an article to accompany the TV segment. 

I just wrote a column that week about the gazillions of dollars companies waste on pointless, unfocused meetings (among other things). My solution is to replace some of those meetings with social networking tools. But here's another solution: Bring TIM! is a $24.99 real-time meeting cost calculator. Just enter in the average hourly rate of the employees in the room, plus the number of employees. The price of the meeting ticks by like a gas pump.

I just wrote a column that week about the gazillions of dollars companies waste on pointless, unfocused meetings (among other things). My solution is to replace some of those meetings with social networking tools. But here's another solution: Bring TIM! is a $24.99 real-time meeting cost calculator. Just enter in the average hourly rate of the employees in the room, plus the number of employees. The price of the meeting ticks by like a gas pump.

I ran across that video, created by Microsoft Research and called "Manual Deskterity: An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input," and was interested to see it considering of my unhealthy obsession with touch input PCs. Imagine my surprise to find a picture of my own hand holding my own Kindle in the video! The picture was originally posted here, on The Raw Feed. Here's the Microsoft video.