Sunday, December 14, 2003

Americans log onto the Internet for Hussein's capture story The media story quickly changes from "How will the blogs cover the capture of Hussein?" to "How will the Newspapers cover the capture of Hussein?".  Tomorrow morning's newspaper stories will be influenced by a day of reporters watching TV and surfing the web for reports and information about Hussein's capture.  CNET News.com - Front Door: Net delivers early news of Hussein's capture. Americans log onto the Internet to learn about the capture of the deposed Iraqi leader because the news broke after most of the nation's newspapers had gone to print. 2:18:02 PM  comment []    trackback []     Press conference recorded Scripting News: "I recorded the press conference. A couple of caveats before you download the 4MB file. I began the recording about fifteen minutes into the event. Second, it's a WAV file. Haven't figured out yet how to convert to MP3." 11:32:17 AM  comment []    trackback []     How will the blogs cover the capture of Hussein? What role will weblogs play in the live coverage of the capture of Saddam Hussein?  The morning started with weblogs quickly linking to the major media sites that broke the story.  Now the linking and discussions on the weblogs will begin.  It'll be interesting to see how weblogs participate in reporting the world's reaction of the events that are taking place. and interpret the facts as they are reported.  This is truly a historical day. 8:46:24 AM  comment []    trackback []     Thar's money in them hills Why is the plan and motivation always driven by money?  I don't really see a direct link between the success of VOIP the application and primary and secondary residential lines?  You don't need to use a POTS line for VOIP.  That's the beauty of it and one of it's money savings advantages. Maybe Rob means someone should be offering QOS over the Internet via something like DSL over the copper that enables next generation latency sensitive better than broadband communication applications.  I don't see that as VOIP but something much bigger.  That network could create a circa 1995 IAP business opportunity that would surely if successful get the attention of the RBOCs if major ISP players like AOL, MSN, and EarthLink start moving there.  The RBOCs would be left with the only choice to regroup, reinvent and compete.  This may be where we're heading in the short term if the slow moving RBOCs stop moving their feet quickly to the next generation QOS network.  Do you really think they would have postioned DSL like they did if it wasn't for the the 1990's Internet era?  It is true that applications that tie contact management, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, encryption, party chat lines are where the money is.  But you become a player with those applications through standards.  You don't need to own the last mile.  Most ISPs see that as a costly liabilty that they rather avoid.  But if the last mile has pot holes, like the lack of QOS, the ISPs may need to someway motivate the RBOCs to upgrade the road. John Robb's Weblog: Will ISPs like AOL, MSN, and EarthLink go after the RBOCs (regional bells) via VoIP (voice communications over the Internet) for primary and secondary residential lines?  If not, they should.  Thar's money in them hills.  There is also the opportunity to create new applications that tie contact management, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, encryption, party chat lines, and more.  A fast way to get there would be to buy Vonage and work with Akamai to roll it out globally.  8:23:13 AM  comment []    trackback []     Windows Mobile UI Tutorial Russell Beattie Notebook: Windows Mobile UI Tutorial. I just ran into this MSDN article which shows how to create "native" looking forms in Visual Studio for "Windows Mobile 2003 Powered Smartphones." And via Dominic, A full .Net Compact development tutorial with info on data storage, XML and more. There's a lot to learn from these tutorials if you know nothing at all about their dev environment (like me) in terms of understanding how Microsoft is going to pitch this type of development to corporations and the general capabilities and limitations of the technology (you can just *see* User Interface nightmares in the making). It should be interesting to see how Microsoft progresses with this stuff. I clicked around and found the MSDN Mobile and Embedded Development Center which also has an RSS feed. This'll be good to keep up to date with latest info on the .Net Compact stuff. In case you're interested, here's the link to Sun's redesigned J2ME Home Page. Don't bother clicking on the XML link at the very bottom, however. It doesn't work. (Doh! Great job guys...). Hell, while I'm at it, here's the Qualcomm BREW Developer Portal (no RSS) and The Symbian Developer Network (no RSS) and Nokia's Developer Forum (no RSS) and Palm Developers Portal (No RSS). Urgh. Do we see a pattern? -Russ 7:49:59 AM  comment []    trackback []     Isn't it great watching Microsoft FUD itself!  Isn't it great watching Microsoft FUD(Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) itself!  If this is true, what was Microsoft management thinking?  Did they not know that talking about LongHorn on weblogs would get greater reach than any PR they could stir up about buying soon to be retired and deprecated XP upgrades?  The LongHorn genie is out of the bottle guys.  The only answer is to rapidly step up the development process and deliver sooner not later.  This whole delemia if true may show us it now takes Microsoft 5+ years to add new functionality into Windows.  If the business people missed the business signs in the near future what are the chances of the technology people getting it right the first time in LongHorn.  If this fact really plays out to be true, the days of Window's being Microsoft's flagship cash cow may be behind it.  Let's hope Bill can this time steer the ship straight and put the pedal to the metal before the market finds other solutions for what Windows 2004 could of delivered.  The main difference driving the ship this time is the captain must lead as the path is not clear as last time(their is no Netscape to emulate).  Lets also realize that the boat is surely a lot fuller and a lot heavier with Microsoft's past.  I'm sure there is room  to absorb new but the difference this time, at least right now, the leaders in the field outside Microsoft are few.  This is a huge contrast and difference from 1995 when the ship turned around and headed for the web.  That time it found many in the water sinking and looking to be saved anyway to implement Internet technology solutions somewhere and why not there. Windows Longhaul? Longhorn could be 2008, says Gartner. Why this could be a big problem for Microsoft [The Register] [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology] 7:48:28 AM  comment []    trackback []     Hussein captured Jake's Radio 'Blog: Hussein captured?. CBS News clearly has some work to do. So does CNN but not as much maybe... I just heard via Jeff Cheney that CBS (TV) is reporting that Saddam Hussein has (possibly) been captured. Amusingly enough, neither CBS.com nor CBSNews.com has anything about this at this very moment, though no doubt they will soon. On the other hand, CNN.com already has the story, on its own page, where I can link to it, and where I'm pretty sure that the link will still work a year from now, and maybe even five years from now. Anyone for 10 years? (Long odds, but I give CNN about 50/50.) CNN is doing a very good job in my opinion. Permanent links are a very important part of Web infrastructure. Whether they link to a page, a paragraph in a page, a weblog post, or a whole site doesn't matter. Web content should be like books -- if I can link to it today, that link should work in the (forseeable) future. Would you buy a book that dissolved into thin air two years from now, and all citations of the book in other publications suddenly became illegible at the same time? I wouldn't. That's why I'm committed to keeping my content up basically forever, or at least for as much of forever as I can reasonably control. Maybe the web needs some longevity policy guidelines that we can all follow? 7:33:43 AM  comment []    trackback []     Chris Lydon's interviews Dick Morris Scripting News: Highly recommended, Chris Lydon's latest interivew with Democrat factotum, Dick Morris. He's very bullish on the Internet, says that Dean is to be given credit for breaking through, but he's too far left to win. Why does Morris say he's so far left? Because he was against the war in Iraq. That's so funny. I would just say that proves that he was thinking. No matter, Morris says come Election Day, the economy will be in good shape, the troops will be safe, and everyone will have a drug discount card; and old Howard Dean better have something to run on come November 2004.  7:32:02 AM  comment []    trackback []     Multimedia Sharing Just Isn't There Yet Quote from Multimedia Sharing Just Isn't There Yet (washingtonpost.com), "In the meantime, I'm left with this: The easiest way to listen to your digital music on your stereo is still to burn it to CD, and the simplest way to show off your digital photos from your couch is to print them. " This may be true today, but I bet we will have many solutions to choose from this time next year.  This market is just starting.  Many players have been showing and talking about boxes for a while.  The first generation of these boxes are just hitting the street.  Early adopter heaven.  Look for some major players to join the scene by mid year. Yahoo! News - Technology: Multimedia Sharing Just Isn't There Yet (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - Sending a song or a photo around the world can take just a few clicks and a few seconds, but if you merely want to send the same MP3 or JPEG file to the stereo or television in your living room, forget it. 7:09:53 AM  comment []    trackback []

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