OLPC spin-off
One of the designers of the OLPC, Mary Lou Jepsen, has spun off to create her own company, Pixel Qi, aimed at creating a $75 laptop. The name of the company comes from combining the word for a picture element, like you would find on a screen, with Qi (pronounced chee) for "the circulating life energy that in Asian philosophy is thought to be be inherit in all things". Design of the laptop just started and it is expected to be available late 2009 or early 2010.
Digg election
Digg is a web 2.0 technology that lets people share content on the web. If you see a webpage you like, you "digg" it. All kinds of information gets "dugg": interesting articles, websites, even digg users themselves. In a sort of pseudo election, digg has the presidential candidates listed as users. Ron Paul is ahead with 17,760 diggs. In contrast, Clinton has only 1,232 diggs.