Zink is a new type of printer which doesn’t need ink. Instead, the hand-held device uses special paper which has dye crystals embedded within it. These release colour when heated by the device.

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Yahoo! has introduced a nice Web 2.0 feature in its Yahoo! Site Explorer Suggestion Board. Not only does it allow users to leave suggestions for improvements to the service, but it has Digg-like voting and commenting, too which quickly sorts out the most significant enhancements from the rest (if they can get the mainstream customers to participate.) Every site should have one!

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PaidContent has (no) details of a deal between Time and Google in which Google will scan the first 12 million Life photos.

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eWeek reports:

Entertainment giant NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric, will announce this week it is bringing in a new, younger chief executive to better compete in the digital age, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Feb. 4.

It’s enough to get you worried. But the piece goes on to say that Jeff Zucker, an NBC executive, is 41 – so hardly a “digital native”. Still…

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Google announced a new feature – a link at the bottom of any Gmail which contains an attached document, inviting the recipient to open it up immediately in Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Not an Office killer yet, but…

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Pew, the internet research company, has found that a surprising 28% of Americans have tagged content and 7% have done so on a particular day. That bodes well for Web 2.0.

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One of the Demo 07 presentations was from ZoHo Notebook, which if it is anything like as good as the demo (it’s “coming soon”) will cause a real stir. My prediction is that either Microsoft (Ray Ozzie will appreciate the intricacies of such online collaboration) or Google will snap them up.

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A few years ago the view was that the enterprise portal – the intranet – was going to be the saviour of big business, but putting all the apps and info that individuals needed onto one screen. Companies like Plumtree and Hummingbird were going to make it happen.

However, legacy got the better of everyone and the dream didn’t come to pass.

In recent months, though, I sense the idea coming back and this time I think it may in fact make it. The Maxthon browser, written on top of IE 7, aims to bring a wide range of tools into one interface, using, of course, RSS and the Atom publishing protocol.

And at this year at Demo 07 there were a few RSS enabled apps, the most significant, perhaps, WorkLight. This is an app which allows corporates to create secure RSS feeds from enterprise systems. From these, microformats and widgets, maybe the future workplace will be built.

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Wired has news of new tag-less image searching technology that uses 3D modelling to get results.

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Ofcom have issued a consultation paper asking for views on whether it should set up a Public Sector Publisher to act as a kind of Web 2.0 platform – complete with P2P functionality – to provide quality content not yet available. They argue that the new service would contract out to media companies to provide the content, which begs the question a bit about why such content is not already being provided. And, given the row every time the BBC tries to develop deeper, more useful content, you would have thought it was a non-starter…

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