Saturday, December 06, 2003

Do people really want to connect to their mini hi-fi using USB?  Do people really want to connect to their mini hi-fi using USB?  AIWA BMZ-K1 Connected Mini Hi-Fi System. Looks like Aiwa is diving into connected Mini Hi-Fi Systems. The AIWA BMZ-K1, once connected to your computer via USB, allows you to access your entire collection of digital music from your PC’s hard drive. To help manage music playback,... [eHomeUpgrade | The Home Networking & Digital Lifestyle Weblog] 4:21:48 PM  comment []    trackback []     RSS network meltdown? Doc Searls received some push back to his RSS is a Good Thing piece.  Looks like some successful nodes/blogs are experiencing bandwidth issues with the present RSS network.  I agree with Doc that the problem is a solvable technical problem "I have faith that smart and respectful tech folks will work things out."  Maybe in 2004 we will see a syndication network layer emerge above the Web that is owned by none but shares the cost with all as we move forward. The network should transport RSS as well as other emerging/interesting XML messaging formats as well as media files, legal files like RSS files that is. A little RSStraint?    I've been pointed to some contrarian counterweights to my frequent assertions that RSS is a Good Thing.   Gary Lawrence Murphy laments The End of RSS. At the top of the webstats, the smoking gun: 30,000 requests for the Drupal-generated RSS feed from teledyn.com. That's after all his daily traffic quota was used up with more than 12 hours left. He explains,   Herein the black hole of RSS: If your feed works, if you are successful in attracting subscriptions on a global scale, if you do it right, you are doomed.   As friends tell friends, as links lead to visits which lead to subscribers, the snowball rolls on towards that day like last Friday. RSS may have thepotential to be a saver on bandwidth, but when you are getting hit once an hour or more by thousands of sites, 24,000 extra hits ads up, and it's all the worse when so many are using broken clients that ignore the caching rule.   Dan Sugalski has similar complaints. More here and here.   I have faith that smart and respectful tech folks will work things out. My advocacy here is on behalf of syndication. I don't want to get into technical arguments, unless they're about language, which is where my own technical expertise lies. [Doc Searls Weblog] 4:08:51 PM  comment []    trackback []     A new home networking standard has been approved 802.1Q Networking Standard Approved. A new home networking standard has been approved by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) for enhanced audio and video streaming. 802.1q promises to prioritize data for higher-quality throughput by integrating quality of service (QoS) features: best effort, priority routing, and... [eHomeUpgrade | The Home Networking & Digital Lifestyle Weblog] 3:36:57 PM  comment []    trackback []     Increased convergence predicted for next year According to Yahoo! News - Technology Tech Spending Is on a Roll (NewsFactor) "High volume of broadband use will lead to increased convergence between the PC and a plethora of consumer multimedia technologies. The chief beneficiary of this will be suppliers of streaming audio and video, the firm says. " 2:13:23 PM  comment []    trackback []     Happy birthday recorded sound 126 Years of the Phonograph: "Thomas Edison recorded the nursery rhyme "Mary had a little lamb" on his first phonograph at his laboratory in Menlo Park on Dec. 6, 1877." "When Thomas Edison recited onto the first phonograph "Mary had a little lamb" he had no idea how great and large the home entertainment business would get. In fact, Edison envisioned the phonograph mainly as a business device." 10:19:57 AM  comment []    trackback []     Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner app of XML Couldn't of said it better myself (Maybe I would have added a horizontal application caveat - Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner horizontal app of XML).  Of course RSS is great.  But XML is much deeper. The Blogging/RSS combo is the first XML application that has delivered and will be remembered as the first one that showed the technical power/promises of XML.  There will be more XML messaging formats to come and when the field gets wider a name will appear that even my mother will understand. We watch TV, we listen to the Radio, we surf the web, we read our email, we "blah the blah" Also, does Nova really think MetaWeb doesn't sound technical?  I bet he is not a Marketing guy. The Birth of "The Metaweb". I think blogging plus RSS is a whole new thing altogether. Nova Spivak's essays, Every Revolution Needs a Name, the Metaweb, and The Birth of "The Metaweb" -- The Next Big Thing -- What We are All Really Building agree, amplify, extend. One thing that Nova dances around, but does not quite hit squarely on the head: Blogging-plus-RSS is the first winner app of XML. [isen.blog] 9:27:04 AM  comment []    trackback []     WiFi in your trunk In Motion Technology access points are designed for use in moving vehicles. "The onBoard Mobile Gateway replaces the WiFi hotspot's standard wired internet connection with a 3G network connection to add mobility to the WiFi experience. InMotion's patent-pending architecture combines sophisticated routing and link acceleration technology to provide the user with better performance than standalone 3G without the expense and complexity; consumers simply use their existing WiFi-enabled laptops and PDAs." 8:33:24 AM  comment []    trackback []     And you wonder how some of these tech battles get started Steve Gillmor of eWeek latest article:  Sun, RSS and Apple Challenge Office Dominance And you wonder how some of these tech battles get started.  RSS, Get, Pull, Sydication call it what you want but what I think Steve means in a wildly roundabout way as HTML before it, XML formats on the Internet are wide open for anyone to produce and include in their products without paying a tax.  Again as we heard over and over with HTML, open XML messaging formats (not just RSS) designed to transport messages over the Internet create a level playing field, a open playground for all to play including Microsoft, SUN, Apple, Userland, Mike's Software Company, etc. As far as the article goes, IMHO not as good as his last (which I really enjoyed) just a bunch of RSS hype mixed in with the old SUN/Apple it's not over religion.  Or could it really be he just never uses W2K and/or RSS clients like RSS Bandit.  "It's the combination of these system services that produces the RSS information router. IM presence can be used to signal users that important RSS items are available for immediate downloading, eliminating the latency of 30-minute RSS feed polling while shifting strategic information transfer out of e-mail and into collaborative groups." What? Doesn't take my RSS client 30 minutes to poll.  Who is doing all this signaling?  Advertisers? SPAM robots? Someone please tell Steve that the best RSS router, signal caller is human, the weblogger.  He's the quarterback here that put RSS on the map.  The human that reads the web, filters and creates the list with commentary that feeds the RSS.  Remember that decentralization and syndication share the load while still carrying the message. He makes it sound like were going to replace everything with something automatic, robotic and centralized.  I don't read those kind of feeds.  They're boring, factless and like the old method of reading old media a waste of my time.   I wish Steve would stay to the technical topic, Internet XML based messaging and avoid the emotional hype and religion wars.  Maybe Steve's trying to hard with this one to stir the pot to get some attention to his new gig at eWeek.   But Steve if you are listening, I haven't given up on you yet. 5:36:40 AM  comment []    trackback []

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