this is a very damaging rumor for Sony and the very best that could happen to the Xbox 360 right now. I wonder if there is a market for rumor spreading these days.
Category: misc
Yesterday I tried to take a picture of my daughter on a swing.
I like shallow depth of field of the 90 US$ 50mm 1:1.8 II Canon.
Needless to say: It didn’t work, since I suck.
But maybe Canon could do the world favor and add a fourth Autofocus mode: “Shoot on Focus”. You set the lens to manual,
focus at the distance that you think the subject should have. Select this magic fourth AF mode and press the button: The moment the camera sees focus it takes a picture. Simple as that. With digital you don’t care if you need to take ten or twenty to get a good one.
Canon, please, could I have it, let’s say in the 6D? I can, or rather have to, use the 10D till then anyway. No funding for the marvelous 5D …
No Such Agency. Back in the day. They were the holy grail of high tech intel.
Today it seems as if a simple digg reference seems to bring their servers to a grinding halt:
I am getting 2KB/s right now. Which means that I have to wait 15 minutes for their collective OS X wisdom.
What happens if the NSA gets slashdotted?
One of the tools for Vanity search is PubSub
The idea is you tell it what you care about and it will remember where it found the mentionings. Nice idea.
It is in my “let’s see what happens around BlogsNow” FireFox stored tab. It is stuck since a week. Or it’s posting order is confused.
I would guess that they have splog trouble as well …
Update 10/30: From my current IP I can not access PubSub anymore. But from other machines I have in the internet it worls just fine. PubSub probably blocks my ISP. Which is fair enough: Despite the fact that T-Online is the biggest ISP in Germany, they also suck. Their IP range gets blocked rather often by US companies. They don’t understand that this is a big company in Germany. All they see is an ISP that does not care to get rid of annoying and misbehaving users. I would ban them as well, wouldn’t I know what the Bundespost used to be.
Speaking of 2.0s, whatever happened to the Internet 2.0 ?
What would Google 2.0 look like?
Microsoft 2.0 however might be as chinese as IBM is now.
Alan Little started an article with this quote from Jakob Nielsen’s blog top 10 mistakes:
If you publish on many different topics, you're less likely to attract a loyal audience of high-value users.
When Mr Nielsens list made it’s BlogsNow debut I think I read it. But I must have skipped # 8. I think that this point is utter rubbish. That is the whole point of weblogs that you get comments, links and news presented from a specific voice. In the more interesting cases this voice is a mix of aspects and interests. If this voice is genuine and authentic then I do enjoy the read, as long there is enough overlap with my interests.
Yoga, for instance, I don’t care about. Alan writes among other things about Yoga, Mac’s and Munich. Since I care about Mac’s and have lived twelve years in Munich I can relates somehwat. And, even though I don’t care about Yoga, that specific weblog would be less interesting if it would not have that area of interesting.
refound this artist’ web site via this amazing collection
Charles Petzold
I did enjoy reading him, when I was still coding for Windows.
15 years ago? 20?
This speech is fun to read I think. I still like his writing style.
Should I read his Avalon book just because of him? That would
be geekish: Reading text books becuase of the the Author.
google base is for real.
Google tries lots of things. But that is what you can do with the web and if you have an ‘unbrand’ like those colored letter.
Much like Apple could sell a white square block of solid plastic Google get’s the attention of the web, not matter how odd the idea may be. Google Video for instance is not gonna go anywhere. DOA.
They just didn’t get the real dynamics of internet / moving images.
Froogle is kind of there, but not making much impact. I have not read anybody talking about it.
Google Base is, of course, a brilliant idea. Let the people bring the data directly to Google. They better make sure that it’s not full of spam like Blogspot. Oh, wait: Blogspot according to google is not full of spam, since they know what is spam and what isn’t. Technorati and Ice Rocket don’t. A good spam filter is these days a very very competitive instrument. Look at gmail: It’s spam filter works. Same with traditional search: search engine spam is huge. And google constantly change it’s engine to combat this. It sounds like that their steps get more severe: “jagger1” has shifted results for many semi-pro and pro SEOs all over the planet. Let’s see what the next weeks and the two more stages that Google will deliver in search will bring us.
Google Base could take some out of the market from eBay, Amazon and craigslist. It’s that one extra click that people don’t want to do.
They want to utter a couple of keystrokes and WANT the first result to be what they want. The internet is a mere extension to google it seems. With Google Base they just pulled the content a bit closer into their data centers. New products can go online instantly.
But the devil is in the details. The /concept/ of google video was brilliant. Or had some brilliant aspects. The actual implementation is stupid. It showed clearly that google does not understand what is going in this area.
I give them a better chance to understand the world of eBay / Amazon etc.
And then there are rumors about google money. If these things work out, then the current stock price of 346 (!) is not the highest we might see. The Market Cap of a couple of companies in Billion dollars:
General Electric 360
Microsoft 266
Wal-Mart 188
Google 96
Apple 46
Ford 16
General Motors 16
At some point this whole internet thing might tip:
Google’s might reaches a level of domination that the whole
rest will be just secondary. Much like the desktop OS market tipped into Microsofts direction at one point for 90% of the people.
Once you store all the email, classified ads, products, blogs, images, maps AND give the people decent access to it, who could possible compete?
There always was only one eBay. A second one had never a chance, since you want the access to the biggest collection. That and the brand keep Amazon and eBay in business.
Sadly only the leftovers might be interesting and worth pursuing in this brave new gworld. Leftovers not in respect of volume: Google practically invented the long tail of the internet. Leftovers in matters of content: Only the junk that Google can not associated with will be traded outside of the big G.
Orson Welles had the entire movie Studio to play with when he was young and made “Citizen Cane”. Brin and Page have the most dynamic thing on the planet to play with. And they don’t have to negociate with a studio. They own it.
That didn’t take long: weblogs.com did notify the universe about weblog updates. For years. More and more weblogs existed, and weblogs.com got sold to Verisign. A real infrastructure company.
Those put the ping service on their own servers five days ago.
With the result that it is broken since four hours. I think that the privately run weblogs.com was offline for so long in the 20 months that I was pulling data from it.
Let’s see how quickly they are back up, and what the ripple effects are for the blogosphere.