Jason William Keith’s Blog

The hallmark product is designed to streamline the process of reading and responding to your email.  The intuitive software is based loosely off of Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA.  It is capable of responding to your emails using the same writing styles as you do.  Google’s tagline for the product is “The easiest email could possibly be.”

Here is the full story at via GMAIL.

I am anxiously awaiting Google’s next application, autoblogger, which is expected to be released a year from now.

The popular social networking company did not give an official reason for the departure of its previous CFO, Gideon Yu, but the speculation is that it is looking for an executive with strong a strong background working in public companies.  Essentially, they need a CFO to help them prepare to become a publically traded company.  Facebook is looking for more capital to fund its growth and ever expanding technical cost.

Here is the full story via the WSJ.

Nissan Motor Company plans to sell electric cars in the United States and Japan by 2010. Nissan is the first major automaker to put its reputation on the line by promising a time table for bringing the technology to market.  The electric cars are designed to be plugged into electric outlets at consumers homes.

While I welcome this technology, I am curious to see how much this shift in energy consumption will effect electric bills.  It will take years for the vehicles to have any real market saturation, but I suspect that when they do that we will see a spike in electricity bills.  And such a spike should help push the way for more alternative sources of power such as solar, wind, and nuclear.

This is one of the most interesting concepts I have seen in a while.  I cannot wait to see how technology will continue to shape our lives.