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Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
02/01/2005 08:35 PM
Continuing my series on mobile platforms, I now think killer mobile
apps need mobile
devices designed like game consoles, meaning that it has one
or two slots
for application cartridges. Each cartridge contains one or
more applications.
Cellphones would come with a built-in cartridge containing the
phone app as well as
others.
Adding a cartridge adds new apps. Applications have two
modes: running and stopped.
The Next-App
button (aka
Appy button) activates (brings to front) each running apps in
turn. Some apps
can activate itself when an event fires (phone call
received). To see the list
of available apps, keep the Next-App button pressed for a second.
Eventually, app cartridges will be advance to become platform
cartridges, taking over
the full functionality of the mobile device to offer better
application platform services
than the one that came with the device (i.e. easy to use app
download service that auto-configures
apps for your device). If you don't like the built-in
calender, just stop it
and run a third-party calendar instead.
The Killer App
The Killer App
07/09/2004 10:24 AM [Frank via Jim]...
A new killer app
A new killer app
03/25/2005 01:35 AM
Inspired by Abe
Vigoda: The Terri Shiavo mortality-status Firefox plugin.
Spy Killer v4.0
Spy Killer v4.0
09/24/2004 07:32 PMSpy Killer is an award-winning spy software / spyware and adware
detector, remover, and shield . Spy Killer also includes a stealth
feature to hide its presence. The spy software / adware scan detects
and eliminates over 200 hidden programs. Spy Killer's shield feature
prevents certain spyware / adware from being installed on your PC.
This unique feature works even while Spy Killer is running silently in
the background in stealth mode. [Shareware $49.97 7 Days 4.2 MB]
Containing a Killer Flu Virus
Containing a Killer Flu Virus
04/14/2005 07:00 AMLaboratories worldwide destroy samples of the 1957 Asian flu virus
they received as part of a proficiency testing program. Between 1
million and 4 million people were killed by the pandemic nearly 50
years ago.
Other News: Car Killer
Other News: Car Killer
07/12/2004 11:01 AMDavid Giri is developing a weapon to disable cars with a
high-intensity electromagnetic pulse.
Dick Is A Killer
Dick Is A Killer
07/11/2004 10:45 PMFrom Etan comes a Liberal Dance Party tune: Dick Is A Killer Some
more tracks at the Party Party.
Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus
Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus
03/19/2003 10:44 PMHealth experts believe a deadly flu-like illness that has killed nine
people is likely a virus. They’re also encouraged that some
victims seem to be recovering. [Wired News] That’s a relief. Our
antibiotics can’t kill it, but the human body...
Killer UCAVs on the Way
Killer UCAVs on the Way
04/09/2004 04:01 PMNoah Shachtman has
written an interesting
update on UCAVs (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) being developed by
the US military such as the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47A
that we've reported on
quite a bit in the past. The article
references a recent Wired
story on UCAVs. In an amusing follow-up, Noah also mentions a
Vietnam-era drone that saw some action over Baghdad.
Program Killer
Program Killer
06/17/2004 09:07 PMLack of Updates
Killer origami
Killer origami
12/17/2003 11:53 PM
Amazing gallery of spectacular origami.
Link
(
Thanks, Kate!)
Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2
Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2
12/09/2003 08:42 PMZero Popup Killer XP is a small, effective, and intelligent
anti-pop-up software product that can kill annoying pop-up windows
without human intervention by using artificial intelligence and
intelligent agent technologies. It is light on your system's resources
and resides in the system tray. It works as an add-in for Internet
Explorer and automatically starts when you start up the IE browser.
[Shareware $12.00 1.64 MB]
Popup Killer v4.0
Popup Killer v4.0
06/19/2004 07:21 AMPopUp Killer is a small program that can automatically close
previously selected Windows. [Shareware $13.00 30 Days 3.4 MB]
The Gmail Killer
The Gmail Killer
06/02/2004 01:31 PM
Aventure Media is the
Gmail killer. No more waiting for
Gmail to be released, Aventure Media is already offering 2GB of
storage. [via
theregis
ter]
Mark of a killer
Mark of a killer
05/14/2004 06:15 AMUSA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct
05/24/2004 07:51 AMKiller Instinct 0.41
Killer companies
Killer companies
07/02/2004 08:13 AMPost-"Fahrenheit," the stellar documentaries -- including "The
Corporation" and "Imelda" -- just keep coming. Plus: A moody
meditation on familial love, or homoerotic cologne ad?
The Game Boy killer?
The Game Boy killer?
10/30/2003 12:36 PMAnother glowing review of Zodiac, Tapwave's Palm PDA designed
specifically for playing games, this one by Ric Manning of
Portables.About.com. But forget about the Zodiac being a N-Gage killer
(the N-Gage is already doing a perfectly fine job of that) -- Ric goes
so far as to call the this thing a "Game Boy Killer," saying it has a
screen that puts the Game Boy to shame. Read...
An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet
An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet
04/18/2005 11:23 PMHoodia gordonii, a plant from Africa, is being touted as nature's
hunger buster, but its effectiveness and safety is under question.
The Next Mobile Killer App
The Next Mobile Killer App
02/01/2005 08:35 PM
The first killer-app for mobiles is the phone calls. I
believe static downloadable
audio contents such as music, audio books, and podcasts will be the
next killer-app.
Only design problem is sharing one battery for both critical (phone
calls) and casual
(listening to audio) uses which calls for smarter power management
and more powerful
batteries.
Great user experience and clever hardware design is where Apple
excels at so I expect
Apple to introduce iPod phones within a year or two at the latest.
Unfortunately, screen-based applications and dynamic audio
contents, driven by voice
browser technologies, will continue to struggle in the near future
due to tedious
user experience. Mobile killer apps must be available at the
user's fingertip,
not hidden behind a wall of patience.
Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever
Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever
03/30/2005 11:33 AMWhy? Because it look slike the whole consumer electronics industry
is now trying to "kill" the iPod instead of inventing something of
their own. By Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network
A killer Web site
A killer Web site
02/12/2004 05:46 AMUSA Today Feb 12 2004 10:06AM GMT
Which One is the iPod Killer?
Which One is the iPod Killer?
09/17/2004 10:22 PMG4 Tech TV Sep 18 2004 1:50AM GMT
The Linux Killer
The Linux Killer
07/28/2004 04:04 AMKiller Gaming Rig
Killer Gaming Rig
03/22/2005 09:57 PMThe Killer Library App?
The Killer Library App?
06/01/2004 11:22 PMHo
w to Make Money with Digital Lifestyle Aggregators - Part I
"We call it digital lifestyle aggregation and it's based upon a
number of assumptions - first and foremost being 'provide compelling
experiences to your end-users.' That said - here's what you can do to
deliver these oft sought after compelling experiences....
1. Integration. The secret to making things easy to use is in
providing an integrated environment where built-in constructs (such as
IM, image gallery or friends network) provide all the functionality
end-users expect. We call these 'commodity features' and satisfying
end-user's expectations as to what software should be - is what it's
all about. These features have to be taken for granted and assumed to
be there - everywhere - all the time. Even this nascent AO Zaibatsu
system provides built-in friends networks to learn and leverage off
of. And they have to be as easy to use as saving off a file or turning
up the volume.
In the future ALL software products and services will have built-in
digital camera support, cell phone gateways, universal messaging,
real-time presence management, personal publishing, social networking
and oh - did we forget to say - web services? But most will just
patch-quilt on these functional modules, never thinking through how an
integarted approach can not only make it easy to use and viable, but
also achieve an elegant design result, which then causes all sorts of
OTHER things to happen!
By providing an integrated environment with lots of great things
for people to do, it becomes instantly more accessible and viral. By
pre-wiring all of these applications and services - so that they work
seamlessly together - OH MY GOD - you just may yet end up with a
series of compelling experiences - 'cause heaven forbid - maybe not
ALL of our end-users are the same....
2. Aggregation. Do you realize that the digital downloading
universe expects end-users to listen to ONLY the songs they download
from one vendor on their jukeboxes? That it's impossible to mix and
match music you've bought from multiple vendors? That's like only
being able to play CDs you bought from Tower Records on your CD
player! Apple also prevents you from loading music from more than one
machine at a time - so you're out of luck if you have two or more
machines.
That's the world we're in today.
RSS News aggregators are becoming understood (you can subscribe to
me here at AO Zaibatsu for instance or at my other blog - @
blog.canter.com) so what happens when we can start to aggregate other
things as well? Like our digital identity or other forms of expression
besides blogs?...
Aggregation is a killer app - that no one owns. It's public domain.
Everyone benefits from it. So is integration as well.
3.
Customization. So now let's combine Integration and Aggregation with
end-users intense desire to have their software do what THEY want it
to do. To have the software adapt to their appropriate usage level
(beginner, average or advanced), their sex, age, demogarphics - even
their location....
This is all happening - but it's all happening as SEPARATE web
servcies or web apps....
I'm sorry to tell you this guys - but that doesn't work. You need
more than just a single feature to acheive the oft sought after
'compelling experience" we started this post with. To start to reap
the benefits of digital lifestyle aggregation - you need to get smart
about architecting systems that rely upon XML, open standards and web
services.
So personalization and customization find their destiny intermixed
with Integration and Aggregation. The only way to produce compelling
enough experiences is by integrating a wide range of built-in
constructs, combining that with aggregated web servcies and content
and topping it all off with unprecedented levels of control and
customization. In one product or service." [AlwaysOn, via T
he Doc Searls Weblog]
A long excerpt, I know, but even though the author focuses on
commercial applications, revenue streams, and open source software,
it's worth reading through this in the context of libraries.
I've said before that aggregation is a killer app, one well-suited
to libraries and the kind of information to which we provide access.
External projects such as LibraryLookup bring home hard the need for our products
to very quickly adapt to web services and XML back-ends. And now we're
seeing another big push for integration in our industry - federated
searching, OpenURL and SFX resolvers, and statewide union
catalogs are good examples of this.
So what would aggregation, integration, and personalization mashed
together in one app, designed from the ground up to work
together, look like in the library world? Would *that* be our version
of the killer app?
Psycho Killer
Psycho Killer
03/06/2004 02:04 AMA follow-up to this post about our sad Christmas tree: This past
Sunday I decided that the tree had to go and I was the one to do it
(since I'd put so much of a fuss over throwing it...
Killer frozen out of will
Killer frozen out of will
02/13/2004 08:05 PMPolice use new powers to prevent a convicted murderer cashing in on
her husband's will.
Hoi An, The Killer City
Hoi An, The Killer City
09/13/2004 08:40 PM
What's clear, at this late date, is that my girlfriend attempted to
kill me in central Vietnam. What's unclear is why she chose the
ancestral seat to the Cham people to make her fatal move.
"What?" sez you. Your confusion is understandable - let me take you
back to the beginning...
Fog and Bus
It started raining during our bus trip to Hoi An from Hue. So we
whipped out the ...
Couple tell of car hijacking by
PC-killer
Couple tell of car hijacking by
PC-killer
12/30/2003 09:57 PMScotsman Online Dec 30 2003 8:47PM ET
Another iPod killer rumor
Another iPod killer rumor
05/28/2004 10:46 AMWhat has it been now a couple of years since the original iPod was
released and people are still running around saying that there is
going to be this device or that device that will knock the iPod off
it's pedestal. Some company can only hope they get that lucky.
Slashdot has the latest rumor and until a product is seen and tested
all this talk is just vaporware. [Slashdot
]
The Serial Killer Who Hugged Me
The Serial Killer Who Hugged Me
04/04/2005 04:37 PM
Life and Death: an extraordinary post from Chris Clarke about his
connection to serial killer Stephen Peter Morin. His family chimes in
meaningfully in the comments.
Mori
n's execution is often pointed to as proof of the cruelty of
lethal injection.
NW-HD5: Sony's iPod Killer?
NW-HD5: Sony's iPod Killer?
04/06/2005 12:37 PMSony showed off the latest addition to its line of Walkman digital
music players Wednesday, the NW-HD5. While it is the fifth hard drive
player to be released by the company, it will be the first to see
worldwide distribution. Unlike Sony's previous units, the NW-HD5 is
designed to stand upright, similar to Apple's iPod.
$50 Microsoft iPod Killer? Feh!!
$50 Microsoft iPod Killer? Feh!!
05/28/2004 09:39 AMMicrosoft is apparently preparing to battle the iPod. Not satisfied
with decimating the Macintosh with undercut pricing (and, admittedly,
a more sound distribution model) Microsoft wants the iPod to have a
more Apple-like 5 percent market-share. But will it work? Yes, and
no.
Yes, because there is a significant percentage of people out
there who simply don't appreciate the stunning combination of design,
technology, and usability that is Apple. These people appreciate a
cheap price, languish in the familiarity of all things Microsoft, and
don't appreciate good design.
SMS road-killer walks
SMS road-killer walks
11/10/2003 11:23 PMA Sydney motorist who killed a cyclist while she was distracted with
composing an SMS has been given a suspended sentence.
"It is tragic that a man's life was lost in these circumstances but
this case should serve as a stark warning to all that the risk is very
real and with the extended use of mobile phones generally more public
attention should be drawn to this risk," Judge Cohen said.
However she said she took into account Ciach's guilty plea, her
excellent character and the fact the dead man's parents did not wish
her to be imprisoned.
Li
nkLonghorn's Flash Killer?
Longhorn's Flash Killer?
11/06/2003 03:52 PMVoIP will be US broadband killer app
VoIP will be US broadband killer app
02/18/2004 07:46 AMWithout FCC intervention, that is
Productivity Killer Killed
Productivity Killer Killed
03/17/2005 02:58 AMFor Unix Geeks only: gateway# crontab -l 0 12 * * 1-5 /sbin/ipfw add
666 deny tcp from any to...
Will There Be a Killer App for the
Wireless Internet?
Will There Be a Killer App for the
Wireless Internet?
05/21/2004 05:35 PMBrightHand May 21 2004 9:51PM GMT
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