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Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Bebo has experienced exponential growths recently. Many including me is a member of some social networking tool. For me this is very humane indeed as we ‘Homo Sapiens’ are extremely social creatures. We love to talk - chat   and engage with each other.

How many times have we felt like sharing our emotions, feelings with others. Social Networking just took these humane behavior to a next level with the help of technology.

Things have taken a new twist when we publish highly personal information on these places. Court cases are using these entries as evidence in cases now. So, just about posting anything on a social networkinig site could be disaster in disguise.

See this for more.

Microsoft has launched a touch screen computer which could be used as a table. This is meant to improve customer interaction mainly in a self service scenario in places such as stores, hotels, casinos etc.

Say for instance, i purchase a bottle of wine from a store (whcih is bar coded) and i put it on this table, and the table would proceed to tell all information such as where the wine originates from, other similar wines, wine growing region, and other food items to accompany the wine etc.

Microsoft Call this ‘Microsoft Surface’ . The device is a 30 inch display (surface) which comes with some basic applications. But its programmable. One such unit right now costs around 10,000$.

More Info at

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

http://www.selfserviceworld.com/article.php?id=17997