In the past 5 years I have been involved in the field of technology and business But strangely I somehow lost touch with developments in science. I did not track ANY developments in Science which forms the bedrock of technology. Being a engineering graduate, I am surprised at myself not doing so. The book I picked up this week “Probable tomorrows” was an eye opener to the great advances that are due in the coming decade.

A new Dynamic Address Book service has hit the market. www.bebo.com -from Birthday alarm guys. It seems that it is spreading like wild fire www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/00000056.htm My take: Nothing great features wise, plain simple service. Other services like plaxo,good contacts, a host of firms have a much richer interface. Since they have just started, it will be interesting to watch what they bundle in the core service. But I guess their past performance and brand is helping their viral marketing efforts.

An excellent article describing the parallels between “Rise of Net” and “RSS” .It addresses questions like “Where is RSS headed ? what are the potential apps that need to be developed ?” One thing that the articles emphasizes is that the pace of development of RSS tools and apps would be breathtakingly fast www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2005/001187.html

imeem: It integrates IM, Blogging, uploading of photos,community formation in to one. Sounds as a wonderful service. http://imeem.com/index.aspx Another interesting startup is Jambo Networks which is combining Face to face networking with Wifi Technologies http://www.jambo.net/ Both of them present in an interesting point of debate–Does community building take place using online services OR Communities or contacts are made primarily offline and the services which will flourish are the ones which will only aid the offline meetings

Memorial Space Flights , a company is offering space burial . It launches the cremated means of the departed on board a funeral satellite. After orbiting for sometime, the remains would fall back in to atmosphere and be deposed permanently in a fiery display Who said space manufacturing and space services are eons away from now? Link : http://www.memorialspaceflights.com