Andrew Bell has made a website with a couple of in depth how-it-has-dones on projects of his. Very nice.
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Funny how an ailing internet property can have so many options. None of them that make any sense.
Yahoo just has visitors that go there, since they always did. There is nothing else.
rumor-1: Fox swapping myspace ofr 1/3 of Yahoo how to get 11billion out of 580. And suggested there: Yahoo giving up and giving search to google
rumor-2: Google buying Apple. The Steve not liking to come to work anymore.
rumor-3: [And I made this up]: Microsoft giving up and going open source. Nobody wanted to play with the gray elephant in the room that used to be a store.
back to 1&2: that could mean that google is the only remaining search engine. It was in a way anyway. But now it gets real tricky. Getting the enire email market could be quick second: Just funnel enough millions into the spam engine to keep the volume up, so that only people with very vast computing resources can survice in the email market. Already in todays brave new world Google could control vast amounts of spam: Just a slight tweak of a specific search quality parameter and somebody gets allot of money somewhere. Much of those funds would be reinvested in measures that come quiet expensive to counter for wannabe Google competitors.
When there is no wifi the iPhone is depending on AT&Ts EDGE technology to get data over the cell phone network. Bandwidth for that is supposed to be 70Kbps to 135Kbps. In other words. It is 11 to 22 times slower than a T1 line. Download wise many consumer DSLs are around T1 speed. So people that are used to ‘high speed internet’ and expecting the same from an iPhone everywhere are in for a surprise.
Since a couple of happy months I have been using EVDO on my laptop. In the rare cases that the Bandwidth dropped below 200Kbps I stopped using the Internet. It was just too painful.
youTube player on iPhone
This was the 12th icon, missing so far.
While on wifi through connect via local internet connection the iPhone might be a cute little viewer. Much like the Sony PSP was back in the day: 480 x 272 is the resolution on Sony’s device, while it is 480 x 320 on the iPhone. Somewhat tragic, that the actual hardware path (internet->wifi->device) was already available on the PSP. Two year head start. Wasted. Well, they sold 10 million PSPs in the US.
The real innovation would have been GPS. I think that devices should be fucking aware where they are. I would like the next MacBook Pro have EVDO
built in. Including GPS support. I am sure there are ample applications one could think of, once devices are location aware. It takes only 2 floats to store this precisly. Without any compression applied it would take a mere 10GB to store my location since I was born. One record for each second that I was alive.
From what I read (cursory) the tchech artist Roman Tyc replaced the usual live landscape images to been at this time of day with this recording. This seems to be a rare case that the local german paper reported such mixed / pseudo news before BlogsNow. Usually it’s the other round.
Roman Tyc did replace some traffic signs in April in Praque
Finally I got around to make a public website for Interdubs. It was an interesting experience to condense the essence of a sucessful and working system into a couple of pages. Good thing is that it can be changed and altered. I decided to link to sites of competing services. Those that I know about. Being able to do so is one of the joys of running your own business: I doubt that such a move would have made it any commitee. I want to believe that I work in a world where people can decide what’s good and what is not. I have no fear to that click on a link of a different service and then fall in love with it and sign up over there. If they should do so, then Interdubs should not be around anyway. Well, it is. And with 11,968 files right now it seems to be going strong. I decided to put total file count inside of interdubs also on the outside. It’s my job to grow the service. And I certainly don’t feel doing so clandestine.
Next Stop: Press work and iPhone version.
The Daily Mail looks at how far kids can go on their own. Now and then.