Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Imagine millions of images, with hyperlinks based on the actual image content constructed between them. Then imagine a browser capable of navigating those images in a 3 dimensional space. I can’t really describe what you’re about to see, properly, so please just jump down and push the play button below to see the demo of Microsoft Photosynth. Hat tip to Dean Collins for pointing it out to me.

Oh, and when can I have it?

Waaay cool.

The iotum Talk-Now and Jajah integration we announced last week finally pushed out to users yesterday.  Woo hoo!  I made my first Jajah call from Talk-Now to Jajah's marketing VP Don Thorson to let him know the good news.

It works incredibly well, and is far far easier than Jajah on the web.  Just pick the contact you want to reach from your Talk-Now contacts list, click Jajah call, and seconds later your cell phone rings.  The other end rings, and you pick up and talk.  Best of all, with Talk-Now you will know that the other person is there to talk, rather than chatting with voice mail.

Get it at http://www.iotum.com/blackberry.

Yesterday, drowning in a sea of updates, I disconnected from the Twitter hive.  Its constant stream of free-form presence updates has undeniable appeal, but the sheer volume of information, coupled with the lack of mediation tools, has made it unmanageable for me.   

I briefly flirted with Jaiku.  In addition to the updates, it also aggregates feeds for a user, letting you collect RSS feeds, presence information, and status updates all in one place.  So few people I know use Jaiku, however, that that flirtation was short lived.

So I've turned to facebook.  Facebook has the appeal of Jaiku's feed aggregation, coupled with Twitter's short form status updates.  It also provides deeper tools than Twitter or Jaiku for managing which updates end up being delivered to your mobile, and which not, which solves the "sea of updates" problem for me.  Facebook gives you very fine control over which updates and from which users are delivered as text messages, versus accessible only online. 

Best of all? Apparently my whole network already knew about facebook.  When I loaded my contact database into it to see who I knew on facebook, I had an instant friends network of nearly 200 people. 

Whatever the category represented by Twitter and Jaiku, facebook seems to have already conquered it.

Interested in seeing how other folks pitch their companies or products?  Vator.TV is a new service which allows entrepreneurs to upload their pitches, and then have VC's and other interested parties read them, rate them, and provide comments.  You can think of it as a specialized YouTube.

There will be lots more of these as the task of finding content on YouTube becomes ever more complex.

Here's the iotum Talk-Now demo, via Vator.TV.