Open Source as end of life: "Instead of gracefully retiring a product which is past its prime, it's released as opensource and left to wither."

Mobile Advertising Should Benefit The User, Not The Advertiser: "The future of mobile advertising isn't about taking what works in the online world and making it mobile, but in creating new offerings that actually recognize that the recipient is mobile."

Is this wishful thinking? The same thing was said about the fixed-line internet: that we were entering an age of one-to-one marketing, personalised and highly targeted offers, and so on. Yet despite some notable exceptions (Amazon, Google Ads), what is the bulk of online advertising? Pop-ups, banner ads and email spam.

Links that have been stuck in my copy of NetNewsWire for far too long and need to be expunged without comment:

• How to be creative
• How to manage smart people
• Bunny suicides
• US Army hand-to-hand combat manual looking very jujitsu like, and a rather blunt reminder of the sharp pointy end where some of our hobbies originated

Dell CEO calls iPod a fad: "When the Walkman arrived in 1980 it changed everything. Music became portable. For those of us not dumb, arrogant, tasteless or brave enough to carry a giant boom-box around on our skinny, teenage shoulders the Walkman was a technological marvel."

His comparison between Apple and Dell is pretty interesting too... Apple are 2.4bn compared to Dells 13.5bn. Hmm, OK so that's 17% of the size, but hardly orders-of-magnitude less. Shit, we compete (and occasionally win out) against companies more than 5 times our size, so I think Mr Rollins is being a tad dismissive...

Anyone going to this? I'm kind of contemplating it - work committments permitting, though it looks quite interesting and dovetails nicely with a weekend.