If ever proof was needed of the impending world domination of widgetisation, here’s a beautiful pic of Yahoo’s widgets-on-your-TV platform apps
Among the first ones available: A Twitter client, made by Twitter Inc. itself. (This is interesting because Twitter has not made any apps for desktop computers or mobile devices, leaving that to third parties.) You can load live tweets while you’re watching TV, a movie, commercials, etc.
(via businessinsider.com)
Please Say Something - Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo.
Me gusto davidoreilly.com
Just came across this BBC article on OnLive sounds like the cloud is delivering…
We think this moment, this day will be remembered as the beginning of a new era. (said OnLive boss Steve Perlman) This is huge. This is transparent cloud computing. This is really really important for the industry.
A new era? not one for hyperbole then Steve? What, no paradigm shift? ;-)
Yes siree bob it’s that day again, document freedom day
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.
Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over the world organise events on the last Wednesday of March. 2009 is the second year that Document Freedom Day is being called for, and we are again looking for people around the world who are willing to join the effort.
Well, if we keep alienating our inalienable rights we could well be heading in that direction. This from a comment on Cory Doctorrow’s excellent Boingboing post (gosh i haven’t linkled to BB in aaaages) London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
is there some way that the logical culmination of this can be headed off? Every indication in the press shows Britain heading for a summer of rage - and every action by the government seems calculated to incite this. It’s obvious they want violence so they can have some killings and thereby justify even more heavy-handed repression. When will it be enough for them? Even now, someone is walking and breathing and slated for execution by police bullet or club in a few months time. This is like watching a slow motion car wreck and being helpless to stop the planned and inevitable. What kind of people can be party to this?
And some interesting links from the comments in the same post…
So I maintain a pile of Windows disk images to test sites in the nastiest of environments. Ever since we switched to targeting standards, I no longer need to test in every permutation of OS and browser but I do feel better with a good look at XP/IE6, XP/IE7 and Vista combos. You can add the extra fun of matching the four-hundred Vista OS sub-versions (MS amazes me, who, but who, thought that that would be a good commercial idea. I do wonder how MS manages to be the world’s most successful business—but I digress) and you end up with quite a hefty VM library.
So enter stage left superpreview which looks to let test away to your heart’s content in a single environment. V promising indeed, and it’s from the man:-)
This made me smile. The Pojman pocket protector collection 802 and still growing! (via Stéphane)
This one is for Ben.
Mock me, mock me how the mighty are fallen etc ;-) Bloody new prescription with super-doopa computer lenses that are supposed to do all sorts of groovy things but in essense only let me grasp a 150pixel square at a time and show the keyboard as pin sharp. Hey, the keyboard is pin-sharp, I just noticed that. Hey, I know, I’ll just look down at the keyboard all day. That’ll work…
From news.bbc.co.uk
While most companies keep their most valuable research projects under wraps, HP has taken a different tack. Everything is out in the open and there is a real emphasis on collaboration with universities, government and other industry players.
“Open innovation is a very key approach to our work. We can’t build everything ourselves,” said Mr Banerjee.
“We want to tap into the best ideas from around the globe and to bring those ideas to market faster,” said Rich Friedrich, who develops research partnerships with universities and government agencies and is also the director of the Open Innovation office.
In its report due out on Monday, HP said it has made 45 awards to 35 universities across 14 countries. It will announce a second round in May.
Well, I’m sure there’s some IP-hounding in there somewhere—but still, encouraging to hear an innovator declare an open approach as a key part of business success (survival, actually)
Wow, I've been suggesting that institutions who depend on high-quality photography to engage their audience should collaborate with Flickr photographers (many museums have better images of their collections on Flickr than they do on their internal resources—I should say 'more colourful' or 'more resonant' that 'better' as the internal photographs serve a specific academic purpose) but I never expected the Getty agency to do it...
Not sure if this is wonderful and stimulating or the first brick in a whole new wall?
Interesting piece by Tim Brown on the migration from an economy of consumers to an economy of creators. He mentions a few of the likely casualties that are likely along the way, one of them being the record industry.
This is interesting stuff and is close to research I've being doing for a while now. He concludes with a nicely put statement on the nature of value definition:
We get more of what we measure. If we measure consumption we will get more of it. If we measure participation we will get more of that and we might just find we are already far wealthier than we realize, or perhaps far poorer. More importantly if our economy measured different types of value we could focus on designing things that created growth without automatically requiring that we consume more stuff.
I had this to add on the RIAA and fellow conspirators...
Tim,
If we could value the increase in the amount of music being listened to, or the social connections that sharing music creates, or the increase in the number of music creators, or the meaning that an individual gets from creating their own music would we find that instead of the destruction of value we had instead experienced a significant creation of value?
You've highlighted something I struggle to explain in my everyday consulting. The destruction of an industry doesn't equate to the destruction of the value creation that industry one enabled
People have been using music to build tighter bonds, promote happiness and produce babies for millennia. For a few years in the Nineteenth century Ricordi managed to turn Opera publishing into a business and for a respectable chunk of the Twentieth century the record industry managed to leverage talent growth and distribution into a viable industry.
But just as the once great Ricordi family business was subsumed into other content-based businesses, just as the extensive Victorian industrial ecosystem surrounding the design, production and maintenance of steam engines shrunk to a niche business in the far reaches of Hunan province the record industry of 1980 must die. Well, it needs to shrink and adapt, but it's late Twentieth century form is obsolete.
It will die and be replaced by a different value creation ecosystem focused on making more babies, sharing more music and being happier while supporting the artists who choose to make music their primary income stream.
Exactly what the ecosystem will look like I don't know but I do know this. It's nothing to be afraid of :-)
James Boyle The Public Domain time to go shopping methinks.
We've been talking about this at work so I was interested to see Iain Tait's "presentation about Radiohead". He uploaded it 8 month ago but I just picked it up from the ever insightful lynetter (thanks!)
My favourite quote of the day:
Within 5yrs of Betamax case, where Jack Valenti claimed VCRs = "nuclear holocaust" for Hollywood, 55% revenues came from video sales/rentals
Thank you @owenblacker
There was some chat this morning about corporate videos for employees and Tory suggested I look at this gem from Microsoft It's a classic, I was reminded of the KPMG corporate anthem (now that takes me back some...)
Great piece on buzzmachine re the evolution required to the ways we live and do business in the face of the current mayhem:
- Consumer products of all sorts will have to change in the face of empowered customers and, in some cases, with competition from small competitors given the benefits of scale on platforms (see: eBay, Etsy, Amazon, et al). They will also face price pressure thanks to online comparison shopping and new retail structures.
- Government will grow but thanks to the empowered populace, it, too, will face fundamental change.
- Creating platforms to serve small and independent businesses and networks to bring them the advantages of scale are key opportunities in the restructured economy. That is the real lesson of Google in WWGD?. There are three ways to succeed here: Create a platform; create a network; build on top of somebody else's platform or network. This, I believe, is how large companies will be replaced.
- There are many opportunities to provide services to new, independent players - startups and newly self-employed individuals. At yesterday's Hacking Education, Scott Heiferman and I tweeted back and forth about the opportunities to build a network of spaces for independent work (the inverse of Starbucks: good with space and services, OK with coffee). Add payroll, insurance, hosting, and all sorts of services.
This is good stuff and resonates with a lot of the thinking and reading I've been doing on the topic recently:-)
There are days when the last ten years feel like time well spent. Let's keep the pressure on and let's keep it beautiful
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-witness-wife-overwhelmed-with-flowers-090227/
Haldane has just pissed all over my laptop bag.
Ahh, kids kids kids, sigh...
I know I bang on and on about this stuff (go on, you know you want to support the EFF) but the more I follow the news of the FSF and the EFF's progress in the American courts the more I feel like a new deal on copyright is just around the corner...
In a filling with the US Copyright Office, Mozilla and Skype have added their voices of support to a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act related to iPhone jailbreaking.
(via appleinsider)
