state of the flooz
The story thus far. Much has happened. All of which has passed. Into the blue we fold. Begin program! Let's start off reading some blogs...
1st up - new beta on blogjet - my choice for bloggin
In tablet news...
Tablet PC goodness, student tablet pc blog. Very cool. Great ideas here and good insight. Can't wait for the tablet pc research project we have in the wings to take off, i think it will be very interesting.
another piece of tablet goodness, if you attend that is, the Windows Anywhere Conference, cool little ad.
On the Biz side...
Checkin out coolbizideas site.
Need yet another magazine?
http://www.traderdaily.com/
Get your pitches ready IR and financial PR professionals, Trader
Monthly, a new magazine release, targets the "fast cars, hot women and
'greed is good'" demographic. In essence, hedge fund managers (and
perhaps some nostalgic 80's and late 90's types).
Per the New York Post, Magnus Greaves, Trader Monthly's founder,
expects the magazine will be bi-monthly in 2005 as it gains its
financial footing.
Content is king they say.. well thats true.. give us the 100!
EContentMag lists the 100 companies that matter most in the digital
content industry. An interesting note on how they did it:
http://www.econtentmag.com
Two speeches made by GE CEO Jeff Immelt: 1 2.
Both make great reading.
http://www.ge.com/files/usa
http://www.ge.com/files/usa
Project X Y and Z, the Research...please wait.
I've gotten the go ahead to persue a few research ramblings of my own. Spawned off initally after my tall tales report from attending one of the Trend Watching seminars this year. Actually the talk I gave spilled over into neomat, flickr, skype and other fun and furious tools of the web. Life-caching! We need more they say. Actually most folks havent got a clue on how to harness all this creative energy. The plan is to devise a test scenerio where tools like blogging, flickr, neomat, etc would aid the process etc. Sounds simple at first but you have to factor in all the audience members that have no clue what yer talking about. Its like emerging technology meets pratical application or something. More on Project X later.
Samsung was here the other day and we had a little discussion on the future tech of digital cameras merging with camera phones. The room was a bit divided, some saw the future of X while others saw Y. I think 5 megapixel camera phones will be a reality, in fact no one debates the realitiy of the products, in fact they say its all very possible but the whys and what users want. Thats the intersting thing. When asked about other companies Samsung developers compare themselves too in the way of innovation, only one really stands out and who could debate it really, Apple and the ipod success story is hardly new. But when I think pure innovation Apple just improved on a concept that was happening out there already and then threw up there to cult status. Thats what they really sell, a state of mind. They close all the gaps along the way and make the experince so rewarding the product is faught for, cheerish, loved, cults explode over it. Did they innovate and create the best chips, or drives or circuts? no, they take whats out there, and improve on it in the experience deliverable. Seeing these men all nodding when Apple is mentioned makes me wonder can Samsung let go of the quest for chips and find a path that is simmilar to Apple's? I mean everyone is doing this right now. What's next? In 2006 what is gonna be the bomb product? Will it be your 5 megapixel camera phone that auto blogs for ya? We broke off the product discussion and funneled into where people are going to be in 2006. What is the culture going to be like? Whats a user in 2006 doing, eating, living, breathing, what his or her day like, how do they get to work, what are they wearing, what the issues around them. Who will be the adopters of the concept, who will champion it, press it home, spread it like wildfire, what events will carry it into legendary status. Its gonna happen one way or another, but whos brand/product/experience will capture it.
In fact some of Samsung folks were a bit standoffish when we talked about tech, as if its all possible thats not the issue, its kinda intersting to think youve arrived at a time where its all possible, but how are you defining this all possible and what is that i think. I still agree its about the experience. Well yes and no, its like the stages of infection, first its the few, then the infected, then the others, then the masses. The problem is the few get the all the hard work, they have to push it home just to get it into being, then the infected arrive and the few are saddened that what was for them is now for others, which leads to the others, now you got a mess of folks into it, then it pops and the masses arrive while the few go off to get another.
Holy camera phones batman.. some good stuff here btw, in fact alot to read. Gah, get prints from yer camera phone!
Something extra I don't need but would be fun to mess with...
the Skype answering machine, now thats handy - wait i need to use skype first.
PVR blog has a nice review of Beyond TV, a tivo like app for the pc, I have tivo, I love it. I got it roughly two years later after my friends raved about it on and on and on. Heh, i'm slow like that. I also picked up snapstream way back when and could probably upgrade to this Beyond TV if need be. Maybe setup a box downstairs. But I find that unlikely, not like I really spend any time down there. I really need new couches first.
Tivo is an amazing product, to see this happening really sucks.
Nightvision.. hmm I need to send this link to Dad.
Ya know I dont have netflix any more ... but its gone social!
Cool little linkage on models.
Trend Watching...
the latest newsletter is out, check it.
ok not trend watching persay.. but intersting.
Well that about warps it up! ZING people!