Guillermo Santamaria's List: things to read

• The New Windows Taskbar
• it feels and behaves a lot more like Mac OS X’s dock.
• Jump Lists
• Aero’s New Moves
• Hover your mouse over the far right side of your Windows Taskbar and your active windows become transparent, exposing the desktop.

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• "Instead because of the way the economy is structured right now, when robots arrive it will have devastating effects on all of us because there will be so many unemployed people."
• Spread the benefit of productivity to everyone by breaking the concentration of wealth, increase pay and reduce the work week.

• When industrialization first occurred there were fears of massive unemployment which never panned out. Why will the integration of robots into the workforce be any different?

    

  "We didn't create a second intelligent species 150 years ago," says Brain. "Now we are doing that with intelligence that will get better and better."

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• Barack Obama’s Twitter Page

   

  The first thing I noticed about Obama’a Twitter page is that he has over 6,700 followers and that he is following over 6,000 other Twitters. At first I was focused on the number of followers and then I realized, “Wait a minute, he’s not keeping up with 6,000+ people and running for president.”

   

  This was the first thing I noticed, but not the last thing. More on that in a minute.

   

  
   

  I decided to follow his Twitter and see what type of messages I would get, how often they would come in, and other little bits of information that might be interesting. What I got, almost immediately, was a message letting me know that Barak Obama was following me.

   

  At first I didn’t understand what was going on. Why would I get a message letting me know that he was following me when I just signed up to follow him. I have my email open all the time so I know it happened immediately, or at least in under a minute.

• Oil prices fell below $60 a barrel on Tuesday to their lowest level in 20 months, as weak economic growth has reduced consumption around the world.

  • This is the stupidest artiocle Kleckner has ever asked to read!!! just like kleckner
• • I really meant that about Kleckner