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I'm speechless: Audeo will understand what someone WANTS to say, before they actually say it. Will this make speech recognition technology look old fashioned? The applications for this technology are too many to even brainstorm about. One disadvantage may be, though, the sight of people talking silently to themselves in the street.

I've been working in the combined fields of computer speech and language processing and customer service optimisation for a while now, mostly in the Internet area, but this is of course the max: a robot who attends to customers and shows them the way to your products, explains their qualities, gives demonstrations and fixes problems. Ok, I'm making up this last bit, but is it really that far-fetched if you read what this machine CAN do? This is what I call pushing the envelope.

EU moves to establish gibberish as lingua franca | The Register

What a dynamic world we live in, by Jove. Earlier this year I discovered the incredible Geni thanks to TC. It looked like a sure global winner for all things connected to family trees. It's so intuitive that I got all my aunts, uncles, cousins and their in-laws to enter their data on the site. I now have a family tree of 1196 members, and I only had to do the first 10 of those thanks to its collaborative and social networking functionality. And now TechCrunch are already reporting that Geni is losing terrain with respect to German competition.