Picture speaking louder
January 10th, 2009
I had an immediate “Whoa” reaction when I saw this image - had to post.
What a sign of the times.
Sphere: Related ContentDisruption - I love it.
January 8th, 2009
It’s estimated that apple sold nearly 20 million iphones at the end of 08 .
Why is that amazing? A little perspective…
This rivals the total number of blackberry users, only Apple did it in 18 months on “1″ carrier, with only two generations of devices.
Sphere: Related ContentLG’s new watch phone - any takers?
January 8th, 2009
Other than the fact that you need to wear a bluetooth headset 24/7 to answer calls, and you can’t really browse the web too well, this is pretty cool!
Sphere: Related ContentUIQ dead
January 5th, 2009
I read today that UIQ is filing for bankruptcy.
I used this platform for many years on the P900, P910 by SonyEricsson. It was the most advanced touch screen smartphone available at that time in my opinion. Maybe they were too early to market, or embedded on only extremely expensive devices like the P900 (I think it was ~$800 USD), or simply never got the adoption and wide OEM integration to take real market share. Whatever it was, it’s a shame to see them go under. There are however plenty of equal or better platforms in the market today anyway.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Net Neutrality debate
December 15th, 2008
Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. Without Net Neautrality telephone and cable companies can decide how fast certain content is delivered to you, what you do, where you go, and what you watch online.
The fear is that big companies can afford to pay network providers more money to have their content delivered faster, leaving smaller companies and others in the dust.
I believe in Net Neutrality, and that all content should be treated equally. Without it, the internet will become like traditional television to consumers, where large media and cable companies control when, what, and how it’s delivered. If users want faster content, it should be up to the consumer to purchase the “high speed” plan and pay the price. Others shouldn’t suffer in the process.
I do not have a problem with companies developing optimization algorithms, caching systems, and anything else they can think of for optimal delivery (this has been around for years i.e. bitcurrent), but they should not get preferential treatment from telcos by buying their interests.
Dear Mr. President-Elect, please enforce Net Neutrality.
Sphere: Related ContentMidVentures –> is very hungry
December 12th, 2008
Great to meet Geoff and the guys over at midventures yesterday. What was to be a drop in “say hello’ turned into hours of brainstorming and sketching on these really neat stick-it white boards (you can print on them too for u mkt wizards)
They are cooking up some good stuff…to be continued.
Sphere: Related ContentAnother one bites the dust
December 10th, 2008I’m getting too many of these emails lately - pownce, stikkit, many startups shutting down. Sad part is several of these were cool ideas that unfortunately will never have lift off. Makes me angry.
Hello,
Values of n [http://valuesofn.com], the company behind Stikkit [http://stikkit.com], is closing its doors.
Stikkit will going offline at close of business (5pm Pacific Time) on Friday, December 19th, 2008.
Until then, the Stikkit service will be working as usual to allow you time to make the transition, find alternative services, and download any data you wish to take with you.
Here’s the full announcement: http://bit.ly/KoIT
It goes without saying that you _can_ take it with you: export your Stikkit content and import it into an alternate calendar, to-do list, contact management application — or just open it in your favorite text editor (Notepad, Word, et al) or web browser.
Export your stuff: http://stikkit.com/export
** Please be sure to export anything you’d like to keep _before_ Friday, December 19th. After that, the Stikkit web site will be offline and all user data will be permanently deleted. **
Thank you to everyone who has made Values of n and Stikkit possible. It has been an honor to work with you all.
Rael
Rael Dornfest
CEO, Values of n, Inc.
iTunes remote control on the G1 - Gmote
December 5th, 2008If you want to use your G1 as a remote control for your itunes music download Gmote - it’s perfect! Takes 1 minute to setup. As good as the iPhone remoteÂ
That was the coolest feature of my iphone… more proof of the power behind third party development 
Why pay 3x for an iphone?
Apple will own my living room
December 5th, 2008
I desperately need to get a media machine hooked up to my television to handle all of my music, video, photos, and anything else taking up GIGS of memory on my day-to-day computer. AppleTV was a poor product and I was upset because I thought that would be the solution.
But now, I still think Apple will dominate my living room. I’m thinking about a MacMini (w/ wireless TimeCapsule for massive storage) hooked directly to TV with ability to record like DVR/TIVO, stream Netflix, store Digital DVD’s, and Play and Sync Music. You can even get HD connection.
My music library alone consumes over 1/2 my hard drive on my laptop! I’ve thought about a Shuttle PC running Windows or Linux, but you just can’t beat Apple’s ease of integration + nice looks.
Thanks Carlos for passing along tip on eyeTV 3. This is my new year resolution
www.change.gov
November 19th, 2008www.change.gov, originally uploaded by David-Wayne.
I have to love Obama’s use of internet media (now officially mainstream media according to many). This is really is Change.
Change.gov
Weekly Youtube address
CTO for the White House
Maybe there’s also hope for net neutrality and control over what I believe will be ridiculous price spikes on bandwidth consumption - worse than the overage charges on cell minutes when we first got addicted talking on mobiles.
Sphere: Related ContentA video taken with my stolen iPhone - qik
November 13th, 2008Update: QIK is cooperating to find out more about the stream. Street level view, address, etc. Thank u google and qik.
Here is a video taken by the people who stole my iphone (or the people who purchased it from them). They finally re-activated it and figured out how to use qik to upload videos. I realized this when my facebook status showed I had just uploaded a video to QIK, and I hadn’t. I did change my password on qik after it was stolen, but it looks like that didn’t stop it from posting. I don’t understand why it posted??????
Now that I have the geo-location of where the video was taken, let’s see if the police can find them. You can click on the “map” tab to see where the video was taken. Too bad it was a first gen iphone without real GPS (I would have exact location), but let’s see if the cell tower triangulation of the first gen iphone can get close enough. Will keep u posted Got ya!
Why I Love/Hate Twitter
November 7th, 2008
original photo via CC Champan - Flickr
Damn it twitter! Such a great tool but sometimes fails miserably when you need it. Much of the advanced functionality (i.e. tracking) seems to never work. Tracking allows you to receive messages based on keywords you are “tracking,” very similar to Google news alerts. This is very useful for many obvious reasons, but unfortunately does not exist anymore?
The reason I decided to do some re-configuring of my twitter settings today was because I was missing @replies (@replies are messages sent in response to one of your messages). The only way you can monitor @replies is in the replies tab in twitter. I don’t check this everyday or even every week because it’s just not on my radar screen. To solve this problem, I wanted to get email alerts or sms of the replies so I could track them better, but….not available yet. Darn! RSS is also a problem because it requires a reader that can authenticate feeds - what? do they even exist? So how did I get around this? I took 10 seconds and signed up at twittermail. Twittermail will send you an email of any @replies you recieve, so simple.
I am now following more people (sorry for the spam blast to your inboxes today) for one reason, I want the ability to mine my network for keywords in the future. I can turn the device updates on or off based on news I want immediately, vs. stuff I can troll later. Which means I can follow as meany people as I want and filter the real-time “noise” easily. This alone is a reason everyone should be on twitter. The bells and whistles are coming…it will only get better. Until then though I still have love/hate relationship ;).
BTW you can follow me here http://twitter.com/gtuvell
Sphere: Related ContentMy new G1 Google Phone
November 5th, 2008Â Update:It’s a negative. There’s only one port on the device for headset/charge/usb. This means I can’t keep my phone charging and use a wired headset for long conference calls. argg! (BTW I don’t like the bluetooth headsets b/c the battery is always dead - I forget to charge it.)
Yesterday I was robbed on a train by 3 pro’s. It was perfectly timed, and happened in the middle of the day when “all is normal.” I was sitting with my head down scrolling through emails on my iphone and SNATCH. Train doors close, good bye iphone.
So I went to T-mobile and got the new G1 for $179 + a 2 year contract. I was already on an unlimited data and voice plan so the net increase in my bill was only $5. (You have to buy the unlimited voice/data/text plan with a 2 yr deal unless you want to hand over $400.)
I’ve been living with the G1 for about 24hrs and here’s my *limited* initial feedback.
The not so good….
 Activation was “ok.” You have to sign in with your Google account on activation, before you can even make a phone call (sound familiar, apple/at&t/itunes?) For whatever reason my login wasn’t activating, and so that meant a trip back to T-Mobile and another 30 minutes waiting to fix it. I heard some others were having the same problem, but it must be rare or else we would have read the headlines by now.
Contacts –> Google wants you to sync with your Google contacts by default. You can sync to your computer with some plug-ins, but out of the box the option is Google. I have a mac, and address book has a built in sync tool for yahoo, google, mobilme and other address books. I had a problem with this also. The Google sync that is built into Address Book didn’t work for me…at all. I cleaned up my contacts and instead used AtoG for a somewhat clean, manual upload. Some fields were still missing, but I have my contacts loaded and functional, and I’ll just do an AtoG periodically as needed to update my contacts in Google going forward.
The battery has the weakest battery life I have ever used. I woke up this morning for a meeting, and by 1PM I had to do a recharge. I was using Google maps, email, browsing etc… heavily, but it burnt out pretty fast. Too fast!
I miss the multi-touch iphone functionality a little bit, but that goes away pretty fast after a few hours.
Only 1 gig memory (that’s ok because I mostly upload or stream data vs. store it now)
The Good…
 Usability rocks. I found it very easy to navigate the device, find things, browse the web, make phone calls etc. I really like the “notification” bar at the top that let’s you respond to anything immediately from one place. It’s also nice to have the option of using the trackball or touch screen.
The keyboard is solid. I can type well and it beats the iphone hands down…missed this!
Gmail and calendar push are top notch. Gmail is like texting on this device, super fast and you get it right away.
The speakers are excellent
Browsing the web is also very fast. It might be the 3g connection, but the browser is also very capable of delivering content quickly.
It’s only been 24 hours and I’m sure I’ll have more feedback, but at first glance this is a killer deal. A great phone for the price and T-mobile is solid worldwide. I’ve used T-mobile now for the past 8 years internationally and they do a great job.
BTW - Jari, my first choice at the T-Mobile store was the Nokia 5800 but they didn’t have it 
But, I change devices about every 6 months now so maybe soon..
Steve Jobs Pitching
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Sphere: Related ContentWe can do better with passwords
October 28th, 2008Passwords are an obstacle. We are too often forced to remember numerous combinations of numbers and letters for our various online accounts, devices, computer logins, and even home entertainment systems.
Can’t we do better than the good ole character password system? Here’s an example I just went through opening a new account (non security related)
It must contain between 6 and 32 characters. Use only characters from the following set: ! # $ % & ( ) * + , - . / 0123456789 : ; < = > ? @ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ ] _ ` abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz { | } ~
It must contain at least 1 letter(s) (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz).
It must contain at least 1 numeric character(s) (0123456789).
It must not contain more than 2 identical consecutive characters (AAA, iiii, $$$$$ …).
It must not contain your user name.
It must not contain your email address.
Can’t we do a picture combination, or a pattern recognition system we can drag our mouse over ?… something besides these brain challenges? See the new Google Android password requirements. I think they’re going down the right track.
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