If the new iPod Touch runs the same OS as the iPhone, and it has a Wi-Fi antenna, that means you can install Skype, and make phone calls for free.  This is just like having a totally unlocked iPhone, with no monthly fee.  Take this a step further: Google buys the open TV spectrum, which will allow nationwide internet connectivity with the same coverage as analog TV. (read: more places than the cell carriers)

Mark my words: Apple will build an iPod Touch with an antenna for this TV spectrum, and allow Skype calls over it.  This will instantly destroy the existing carrier cell networks.  DESTROY.  This is disruptive like I cannot describe.

You heard it here first!

I am a member of no less than 15 different social networks of one kind or another.  This is like 300.  “This is madness, blasphemy!  No, this. is. WEB 2.0!”

http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/

This is a magical article.  Read it.  Good.  Now, think about how lovely that would be!  Ok. Now think about how terrible it could be!  Ok.  Facebook has lovely toys for making fun with the social graph.  Linkedin has lovely widgets for getting jobs with the social graph.  Myspace has the most horrible pages designed by 13 year old slackjawed drooling delinqents, with the social graph.  But I digress.  What’s not amazing about this article is how it would make _current_ actions easier, it’s the myriad of new actions that would become feasible because of the increased reach and breadth of the network’s structured knowledge.  Just the social statistics alone would be worth ba-zillions to whoever really figured it out.  Someone should call me, we should go help this guy build it.   Wow.