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Engineers at Fujifilm are working on a terabyte holographic memory device the size of a sugar cube. When video profiles are finally in vogue this will come in handy.

This weekend I am installing Linux on my iPod Nano so I can load Wikipedia on it. I got sick of getting into arguments with people at bars about who starred in what movie, how many subscribers Spark Network has, or the name of the woman who did the faceplant on her snowboard at the Olympics. It’s all at the Wikipedia website, and now I’ll have it in my pocket. Kind of like when Neo asked Trinity if she knew how to fly the helicopter in the Matrix and immediately makes a call from her cell phone to obtain the necessary pilot training program. I don’t like know-it-alls but I hate it when I have a something on the tip of my tongue, only to remain there due to multi-tasking or beer consumption. What, you don’t know about Wikipedia? Go check it out.

Think of having a local copy of 12 million video profiles and all of Myspace downloaded to your iPod, or your phone for that matter. Mind boggling.

Think of PodDater on steroids. But alas, I went to PodDater today and it’s looking more like YouTube.com, lots of videos of people driving cars around racetracks, stupid gag videos and a bunch of uninteresting junk. They have set up the url scheme so you can arbitrarily enter in a page number to jump to it. I found 19 pages of people with pictures or video profiles, which is 238 people. Where’s the growth? It makes more sense to get people to stick their video profiles on MyTybe or one of it’s 50 competitors that have lots of traction already.

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