Stuff I’ve watched or that’s still to watch…

New Google search options are impressive.  Only available on the English Google.com though.  More here.

Being A European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley – The Veteran Perspective

Extremely interesting presentation from a fellow Belgian living in Silicon Valley on last month’s Plugg conference in Brussels.

Een checklist om te evalueren of en hoe social media kan ingezet worden in een organisatie. Via, via.

Like Ubiquity but without needing a Firefox extension – it’s all Javascript + html.  Demo here. Via.

Few of the examples are actually convincing and some are a bit ludicrous, yet you can imagine people build be really useful applications – especially for disabled, eldery people or kids for whom the interfaces whe have now are too complicated…  Oh, and to be fair, here’s a similar (somewhat less appealing though) video for Tikitag – now known as Touchatag:

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

Yes, we’ll see probably more of this (via).

Using biometrics to authenticat is a bad idea… your “token” can be stolen and… you only have a limited number of them (typically one ).  Check out this essay on Why Identity and Authentication Must Remain Distinct. Via ReadWriteWeb.

Based on your location, your phone will show your surroundings with a Wikipedia-fed information overlay.  Powerful visual execution of the idea behind WikiNear.

(More here, via Between Brackets, an excellent blog on mobile and socialmedia trends)