• Birds of a Feather …. "Twibes Twitter Groups"
  "Find a Twitter group and join it! Or, create your own Twitter group."
  (tags: twitter)
• Interesting advances in display and visualization technologies: "The 3D Wave Is Growing"
  "We’ve been spending a dominant share of our research attention during the last few months on a space we call RealVR. Part of what we see coming is display and visualization technologies that will usher in a set of more advanced interface technologies (multi-touch, gesture, voice) and be a substrate for many new applications.
  "One part of that display trend is 3D. It’s no longer a gimmick."
  (tags: visualization 3D display)
• Happy Birthday, Sun Blogs!
  (tags: Blogging SunMicrosystems)
• What Are You Eating Right Now?
  (tags: Geek)

• Online connectivity to the Screens of our Lives: "AT&T looks beyond the cellphone"
  "The president of emerging devices at AT&T Inc. sees a wide variety of wireless devices in the future, and the carrier is helping OEMs design them."
  (tags: mobile mobility wireless at&t netbook)

• identropy – Identity as a Service (Adrian Rodriguez)
  blog: Adrian Rodriguez
  (tags: blog whodentity)

• Sync Lightning and Palm — Small Business Tech Solutions, LLC
  Sync Lightning and Palm
  (tags: calendar palm sync Thunderbird Lightning GoogleCalendar)
• Pretty cool bike for little kids: "Why Strider Training Bikes are Safer than Tricycles" Thanks @damastin for the tip.
  "The Striderâ„¢ run bike teaches children balance and coordination in a secure learning situation. The bike's low seating allows children to place both feet firmly on the ground, providing them confidence and control."
  (tags: bike bicycle)
• Practical Advice on saving money: " Screw the Recession: How to Spend Less and Get More"
  practical recommendations for how too save money on a monthly basis.
  (tags: thrift finance money)
• Will we find life out there? "Earth-Sized Exoplanet Is Least Massive Ever Found : Discovery News"
  "Scientists say they've discovered a planet outside our solar system that is close to Earth in size — far different from the behemoths they had previously seen so far."
  (tags: Life astronomy)
• More speculation: "In Oracle-Sun deal, analysts predict identity management fallout"
  "As the dust settles following Oracle Corp.'s announced $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday, the combined company is expected to become the top enterprise identity management vendor, leading to a potentially painful transition for customers."
  (tags: Identity sunmicrosystems IdentityManagement Oracle)

• ActionComplete | Gain Control of Your Life and Feel Accomplished
  ActionComplete applications are built around the "Getting Things Done" methodology by David Allen. The application family consists of a rich Internet productivity application, a task manager/todo list organizer for Android-based mobile phones, and an idea-capturing/mind-sweeping application for Android-powered smartphones.
  (tags: android gtd)

• Master your To-Do List with Tudumo – Simple GTD Software for Windows
  Quick, easy to use.
  (tags: gtd productivity)

• Can social networking improve customer service? Telephony Online"
  Verizon, others are using social network-inspired online community forums to reinvent customer service"
  (tags: socialnetworking verizon cuistomerservice)
• Working towards common methods for determining online reputation: Global Fraud Fighting Community
  "The Global Fraud Fighting Community is a cross-industry collaboration of merchants, banks, payment processors, fraud solution providers, individuals and law enforcement agencies working together in real time to make e-commerce safer and more profitable."
  (tags: Identity digitalidentity IdentityManagement Reputation fraud)

• Multitasking can kill productivity: "Don’t Buy a Gadget, Change a Habit" | Francis Wade
  "A few months ago as I was travelling through LaGuardia airport, I caught site of a fellow traveller with his two hands clicking away on his Blackberry. What looked a bit different was the fact that both his hands were above his head, clicking away on the keyboard as he stared upwards at the device. What was truly bizarre was the fact that he was using the urinal in the men’s room at the same time… “multi-tasking.”"
  (tags: productivity PDA)

• Phoenix Suns TW@CKLE
  (tags: Phoenix Suns Twitter)
• Sun Microsystems – Powering the National Health Information Network
  (tags: Healthcare NHIN Sun Microsystems HHS)

eWeek.com reported yesterday that "Sun Microsystems is partnering with the US Federal Government to create a secure technology platform to connect federal health agencies and private institutions to the National Health Information network:"

"Sun open-source software, including GlassFish and Java technologies, will be the backbone of a national network designed to offer a secure technology platform so public and private health agencies can exchange electronic medical records and other information over the Internet."

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) annnounced:

"The Federal Health Architecture is making software available as a first step to help public and private health information technology systems communicate to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), a federal initiative to facilitate the electronic exchange of health information.  The Federal Health Architecture, an E-Gov initiative led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making this free software, called CONNECT, and supporting documentation available at www.connectopensource.org."

Having health records on line holds the promise of higher quality, less expensive health care for consumers because critical information is more accessible more timely and more accurate than with traditional paper-based methods. As both a consumer of healthcare and as a taxpayer, it is good to see this important initiative moving forward. It’s also great to see Sun at the forefront of providing key technology to make it happen.

Technorati Tags: Healthcare, NHIN, Sun Microsystems, HHS