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Ribbit will be the next buzz in the world of telephony. They developed an open platform, named Amphibian, which integrates your mobile phone with a very interesting web application. And since it's a open platform, developers can create new features and widgets on the platform.

Some of the features are:

• manage your mobile voicemail like email on your computer and on your mobile phone;
• turn your voicemail into text to make voice messages sharable, searchable, and most importantly actionable;
• take and make mobile calls from any browser or web page - such as iGoogle, Facebook, and many more;
• experience Caller ID 2.0 - dip into the social web and know not just who is calling but what the caller has been doing;
• have scores of web developers working at internet speed building new phone applications for you.

Watch the demo video and start drooling:

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The french newspaper Le Monde has posted a world map with the distribution of the different social networks across the different continents. Unfortunately, some countries have no information at all.

Click the image to see a larger version.

Update Feb 27 2008: Pingdom released a report with social networks downtime for 2008.

Or how homo digitalis is different from the homo connectus.

How to provide clean water to very poor people, using a diferent energy source.

Via Samuel Martins.

In a world where geographical constraints are no more, economic rules have to be re-evaluated. Due to online commerce, things like location, facilities and technical advisory are no longer competitive advantages. If I, as a customer, can have all the technical advisory I need from the web, and can buy whatever I want with a simple point and click, then price will become the ultimate decision maker.