Lurching from one medium to the next
October 09, 2007 | CommentsOn the train to London yesterday, I noticed myself doing one of those clinging-to-old media things. I have a signature on my email - yer standard contact details, email, mobile number, etc. This I add automatically to all emails I send. But I type my name at the foot of emails. Why? Because it feels like I'm signing the email that way, though obviously it'd be way more efficient to have this automatically added... but I don't do this because it'd feel "fake". I'm such a fool I like signing my emails with QWERTY because I instinctively and irrationally think it gives them a personal touch...
links for 2007-10-09
October 09, 2007 | Comments-
Specific examples of transcoding done by Novarra
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Good to see S3 getting an SLA, but 25% back if they don't meet it doesn't seem to give a customer much purchase... still, it'll tick a box for some so it's a good thing :)
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See also: Eastbournecisco! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/sms_txt_solar_parking_meter/
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Oh christ, now they can claim it's legal and therefore OK...
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"if you've fixed all the known bugs, and all that's left is new code, then your schedule will be stunningly more accurate."
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I'm curious about this... and deeply impressed if everyone is measuring the same thing
links for 2007-10-07
October 07, 2007 | Comments-
"it's strange that so many people seem to suggest that the lack of uptake in mobile apps is tied to some inexplicable and fundamental property of mobile. That's an awfully complicated non-answer."
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"More than half of mobile execs do not use the mobile content that they are marketing"
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Wow. We may not be all the way there yet, but thank goodness we've managed to come this far...
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"The device is not an innovation platform... We should focus on the faster tools of Java and Web services to explore what works and what doesn't."
+1, a thousand times +1
Access to handset APIs through JavaScript would be nice (on iPhone and elsewhere). But didn't jobs emphasise iPhones's use of OS X at launch? It's not like he ever revealed the OS inside the iPod, why mention it if it didn't have some future relevance?
"So if all Mobile Advertising switched straight into operators tomorrow, it only increases the market by 0.25% - not exactly something to get the City slavering." It's the same problem with most mobile data services: they're all a teensy %age of revenue
OTT home automation, cat flaps and vision software.
"Instead of directly designing an information space, you’re better off designing the rules that underly the generative construction of such spaces."
This is a feature I love on the iPhone: nowadays I tend to navigate to the last conversation I had with someone, then tack on a new message rather than finding them first. Conversations, not contacts, are the route to new messages.
links for 2007-10-06
October 06, 2007 | Comments-
spam works — otherwise spammers would be out of
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"The key development here is that smart mobile devices - and this increasingly means cellphones - will become the primary method of accessing the Web."
Jeremy's Shitstorm
October 06, 2007 | CommentsJeremy's kicked off a shitstorm on Flickr: "In a nutshell, I’m getting penalised for having search-engine friendly pages. I, along with some other people on that thread, have tried to explain that Adactio Elsewhere is just one example of public Flickr data appearing beyond the bounds of Flickr’s domain—an issue tangentially relatred to intellectual property rights."
This really reminds me of David Weinbergers comments at Picnic about unowned order: in the digital world, there's no incremental cost to putting things in more than one (virtual) location, and it's possible for the organisation of data to be separate from the data itself; we can all own different perspectives onto the same data which the owner of the data isn't privy to.
And yeah, Mr Keith is spot-on that this is a cultural, not technical issue. I suspect that even having spent the last 18 years online I'm too old to really "get this" in my bones, and that the current wave of teenagers and young adults are the first people who might internalise this. /me thinks about record companies selling MP3s as though they were physical product...