General Motors has developed a working next-generation heads-up display that turns an ordinary windshield into an augmented reality information dashboard. Such a system can improve safety and advance knowledge behind the wheel, visually identifying important objects in physical space like road signs, the edges of the road you’re on in conditions of poor visibility like fog, and even bring GPS functions right into the dashboard by outlining the exact building you’re going to.

SmartBlogs.com recently asked if Digg is still relevant.  Below is my comment:

“Great question and I think what you may be asking is “will Digg still remain relevant in the future”. We know it certainly is still relevant today with 40 million visitors, 500 million page views a month, 20,000 daily submissions, 170,000 daily Diggs, and 19,000 daily comments (source: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/11/digg-cassandara/).

I think online news in general still isn’t anywhere as social as consumers of that content want it to be so I still see Digg as very relevant. Other social networks may have more users but many of them are “closed” where Digg for the most part remains “open”. I think Digg is smart by tapping into other social networks to improve its algorithm. I found the revenue portion of the article most interesting. Digg most likely is concerned with the amount of content and data Facebook has to draw upon from their users. Likewise Digg surely wants to get as much information from their users to gain insight in the likes and dislikes of its users so they can serve up and sell very personalized ads.”

I like statistics and facts and I know this is random but found this chart of broadband subscribers interesting.  Source: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/12/us-broadband-2009/

Doesn’t look like much is changing if you are planning on upgrading from Office 2007 to 2010. What do you think?

Kevin Rose: Top 5 Changes The iPhone Needs To Stay Dominant:

1. Create an expedited app review process
2. Allow apps to be hosted, sold, and installed on 3rd party websites
3. Allow the creation of apps to compete with your own native apps
4. Multi-tasking
5. AT&T stinks – move to Verizon

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

I’ve been trying out Google Chrome on Linux and Windows for the past few weeks now that extensions are available.  I like Chrome, it is very snappy and the number of available extensions are growing quickly.  I still plan on sticking with Firefox because it is open source and is something that just feels more familiar to me.  What are you using these days for your primary browser and why?

If you use Gmail to manage your contacts you will likely be happy to hear that they just added a find duplicates button which lets you find and merge your duplicate contacts.  I ran the tool tonight and found out I had 92 duplicates from my 733 contacts.  This was a huge time saver…