Open Source winning the race in mobile product development
Companies like Wake3 and Funambol are starting to use open-source in
the development of software for mobile computing devices. Open-source
seems to be the perfect conduit to bring iPhone type browsing and
e-mail to handheld devices. During a meeting of the Mobile Monday
Silicon Valley group associates of Wake3, Funambol and Wind River noted
the rise of open-source software on handsets. Wake3 is bringing the
open-source WebKit mobile Web browser to Windows Mobile systems.
MobileCrunch » Mobile Computing catching Wind with Open Source Sails
This is why it is so important when Google gets involved in this kind
of initiatives. If you are creating these systems and you don’t go Open
Source, and Google does -thus creating and incentivizing a huge and
growing community of Open Source developers- how do you know that your
systems won’t get backward compatibility problems? Are you willing to
stay out of the game that Google and a huge percentage of developers
and therefore companies will be in?
It doesn’t mean that Google will win, but surely means that Open Source is “winning” already.
As things go, proprietary systems development don’t have much future,
neither in computing, genetics, or almost anything else. (car/plane
manufacturing and other sectors are yet exceptions due to the high
entry costs to these industries)
Unless your product is impossible to reverse engineer and upgrade/improve by the OS movement, forget it about “going it alone.”
Sweden at the forefront of change in file sharing laws
More than a year ago (two?) I predicted that the current copyright laws could not be kept as they were for too long… and Sweden appears to be leading on this process. What is happening in Sweden is the little crack that will sink the media and telecoms old business model.
In the digital world, content is and will always be easily copied, no matter how many laws you enact to ban that practice.
Politicians that fail to understand technology don’t realize that the main file-sharers are the top minds of the computer industry, and behind them there is a whole new generation that feel that content is a given, and will not hesitate to keep having access to it, regardless of the legal risk associated with the practice.
If it is digital, it can and will be copied. Get on with it and learn to make money in other ways.
Swedish Politicians Strike Blows at Copyright Lobby | TorrentFreak
Karl Sigfrid told TorrentFreak that the APB proposals make no practical sense. “I think it could be solved in theory. However, in reality, you would need such a surveillance system to achieve this that it would be all out of proportion. So I don’t think there’s a feasilbe way of stopping individuals copying. The cause for file sharing is basically that it’s possible. People have always done it to the extent that they’ve been able to. With cassette tapes 20 years ago and electronically today. Copyright laws preventing individuals from sharing information have never been legitimate in the eyes of most people.â€
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Mobile phones and direct navigation: myth or reality?
Ein Drittel der Japaner tippt lieber URLs als QR-Codes zu scannen? » Mobile Zeitgeist
Q1: When out and about, if an advertisement catches your eye, how
do you use your mobile phone to find out more information? (Sample
size=300, multiple answer)From a scanned QR Code or bar code 125 41.7%
Send a blank email and access the URL in the reply 104 34.7%
Type in the URL directly 100 33.3%
Use keyword search (to SQ) 92 30.7%
Use OCR (text reading) feature 21 7.0%
Other 0 0.0%
Never really looked up more information 75 25%
Don’t use internet on my mobile phone 47 15.7%
What to study?
When faced with an overwhelming array of choices, these may be useful reference points to evaluate our options:
1. Things I’ll definitely learn soon
2. Things I might learn later
3. Things I’ll probably never get around to learningThese are the criteria I use determine which category something goes in:
1. Is this useful to me now? (for day job, startup, side projects, etc)
2. How long will it be useful? or When do I expect this to become obsolete?
3. How useful is it for the time it takes to learn? or How much bang do I get for my studying buck?
From Technology Decisions - Where to Invest Your Brainpower
How much to leave to the kids?
“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.”
Warren Buffet
Facebook and Google join DataPortablity.org
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/goog-fb-data.php
If these industry titans can put aside their rivalry and work together - magic could happen. Hopefully they can work appropriately with the other members of the working group, bleeding edge consultants and representatives of smaller and in many cases more user-centric companies. If so, perhaps we can move appropriately into a future of powerful personalization and logically augmented activity online - while avoiding Minority Report-style dystopian scenarios.
List of all the possible ways to promote your company on the web today
A Complete List of the Many Forms of Web Marketing for 2008
See detailed post here
The Many Forms of Web Marketing:
1) Corporate Domain
A) Corporate Site
B) Portal Strategy
C) Microsites for Segmentation
D) Interactive Web Marketing
E) Intranet
F) Extranet
G) Regionalization
2) Search Marketing
A) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
B) Search Engine Marketing (SEM).
3) Out Bound and Syndicated Web MarketingA) Email Marketing
B) Invasive Marketing
C) Syndicated Content and RSS
4) Brand Extension
A) Web Advertising
B) Contextual Advertising
C) Sponsorship and /Cross branding/Affiliates
D) Social Advertisements
E) Widget Advertising
5) Community Marketing and Social Media Marketing
A) eCommerce/Rating Sites
B) Social Networking, Forums, Wikis, Collaboration
C) Syndicated Marketing
D) Podcast Marketing
E) Blogging.
F) Widget Marketing
G) Online Video and Live Streaming
H) Instant Messaging, Presence
I) Tagging, Collective Tools
J) Voting Features
K) MicroMedia
L) Infinite Other Flavors
6) Virtual Worlds
A) Virtual Worlds
B) Online Massive Multi Player Games
C) Online Games
7) Related Mediums
A) Internet TV (IPTV)
B) Mobile Content
8 ) Experimental: To Watch
A) Portability of the Social Graph.
B) Vendor Relationship Management
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