DoCoMo's ex-prince has guts to pick up Vodafone

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I have a question, I have an answer -
pick me, pick me!

I have a question, I have an answer -
pick me, pick me! 06/22/2004 12:58 AM

Syndication city
by Scott Rosenberg

I'm a late addition to a panel at the Supernova conference this Thursday, June 24: I'll be joining some very interesting people (Technorati's David Sifry; blogger, XML leader and now Sun engineer Tim Bray; and Paul Boutin of Wired and Slate). We're talking about syndication and RSS. The question the panel faces: "Is there more to syndication than reading 300 blogs at once?" What interesting, useful applications for RSS and RSS-like tools are out there or just around the corner?

I've got my own answer(s), but in the decentralized spirit of the conference, I'll open the floor here in comments, and present anything you folks suggest, too.

[Scott Rosenberg]

I have five questions/answers for Scott - I hope he picks me.....

1. How will the evolution of new kinds of micro-content, like Reviews, Events and music playlists - effect the existing blogosphere? A: it will enhance it, making it not onyl richer and deeper, but also make it more relevant to average people - who don't want or feel the need to blog, but who have opinions on movies, books and reataurants.

2. How will FOAF interconnect entire social networks, on-line communities and blogging tool userbases together? A: by enabling digital IDs that encompass multiple presences, end-users will be able to move freely from system to system without having to recreate their strong ties every time.

3. Finally - Salon was one of the first content sites to offer it's readership Blogs. Now that the AlwaysOn Network is also offering social networking - will Salon also offer social networking? I say - yes.

Do You Have the Guts to Buy?

Do You Have the Guts to Buy? 04/01/2005 11:15 AM
Paul Elliott offers a challenge to growth investors.

Vodafone K.K. Releases Vodafone 902SH 3G
Mobile Phone from Sharp

Vodafone K.K. Releases Vodafone 902SH 3G
Mobile Phone from Sharp 12/29/2004 02:00 PM
SlashPhone Dec 29 2004 4:22PM GMT

Gillmor guts

Gillmor guts 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
Dan Gillmor is leaving the SJ Merc to launch a project that continues the best of blogs. Few have the courage to risk so much for this. He has earned praise for the work he has done, and respect for this next step that he is taking.

The Guts Of A New Machine

The Guts Of A New Machine 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
The iPod became an instant classic by combining high design and powerful technology. But as Apple has learned before, that formula alone doesn't keep you on top. By Rob Walker (New York Times via MyAppleMenu)

War protest with guts

War protest with guts 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Some gutsy australians has been demonstrating against the war in a peculiar fashion. Way to go for demonstrating the futility...

You Have Huge Guts

You Have Huge Guts 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
In 1996, the Doom videogame was retold as a comic book, and the result may be the worst of all time. "My cause is just. My will is strong. And my gun is very, very large." (04-03)

MS guts longhorn

MS guts longhorn 08/27/2004 07:10 PM
i wonder if XP SP2's slipping was part of the cause

T Rex guts excavated

T Rex guts excavated 03/24/2005 04:51 PM
Cory Doctorow: The remains of a T. Rex with intact blood vessels and blood cells have been recovered:

The field team used standard procedure as they excavated the bones, wrapping them in plaster jackets before transporting them..

This particular dinosaur fossil was too big to lift and they reluctantly cracked a thighbone.

Usually paleontologists put preservatives on fossils right away, but Schweitzer has been trying to find soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, so this one was left alone.

Link (Thanks, Alex!)

On The Guts of a New Machine (Aside)

On The Guts of a New Machine (Aside) 12/02/2003 01:29 AM

One thing that I noticed for the first time today was the distinct similarity between the navigational style of the iPod and the horizo ntal-heirarchy menu-driven interface to Tivos. Is there a memetic forebear to both of these that I'm unfamiliar with, or is this simply an emerging standard in navigating through libraries of content when you only have a few physical buttons and real-life interface elements to deal with?

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Vodafone K.K. to offer Vodafone 902T 3G
Mobile Phone

Vodafone K.K. to offer Vodafone 902T 3G
Mobile Phone 03/19/2005 03:02 AM
SlashPhone Mar 18 2005 4:54PM GMT

New Sony Ericsson V800 for Vodafone 3G
(Vodafone 802SE)

New Sony Ericsson V800 for Vodafone 3G
(Vodafone 802SE) 09/22/2004 12:47 PM
SlashPhone Sep 22 2004 4:11PM GMT

On The Guts of a New Machine (Part One)

On The Guts of a New Machine (Part One) 12/02/2003 01:31 AM

I've been reading The Guts of a New Machine, the latest (and longest) article on the iPod perpetrated by the New York Times. It's an interesting article that does the journalistic job of covering a variety of angles well while trying to find some unifying theme - but that makes commenting on it in general almost impossible. It itself has no thesis - no argument to make. So instead of addressing the piece as a whole I'm just going to jot down a few thoughts that occurred to me as I read specific chunks. I'm going to do this in multiple posts as it should make commenting more practical.

On rapid product development and coherent product vision

"The iPod came together in somewhere between six and nine months, from concept to market, and its coherence as a product given the time frame and the number of variables is astonishing. Jobs and company are still correct when they point to that coherence as key to the iPod's appeal; and the reality of technical innovation today is that assembling the right specialists is critical to speed, and speed is critical to success."

This chunk of the article (not a quote from anyone) interested me, because of the perceived dislocation between speed, the right staff and coherence. The process seems to me to have been successful in producing something coherent and clean almost because of its brevity. In my experience, three months is about as long as you can reliably expect any individual person to care about their part of the project more than they care about anything else - even if they're given total free space not to have to think about anything else (multi-tasking is the evil enemy of creativity in my opinion). Only clear delineations between stages in a project (and strong management over those transitions) can really help maintain people's levels of constructive engagement if you need a project to go any longer.

When I see the iPod and hear the time it took to think through it, I can almost smell the initial back-to-basics workshops, the brainstorming around what MP3 players could and should be at their core. You can feel the desire to understand something - grasp a vision - and the reason that sensation still sits at the heart of the thing is that there wasn't enough time for that vision to erode before it got to market. The iPod's design to me isn't really about simplicity or coherence at all, it's about getting to the essence of the thing and sparsely sketching it out without letting the cruft or baroque tendencies unfold. Where human beings are involved, design is a process in time, and the quality of that design can be affected directly by too-little time, too-much time, and not know what to do with the time you have.

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Storing Data In Cow Guts?

Storing Data In Cow Guts? 07/21/2004 04:20 PM

Microsoft guts Longhorn

Microsoft guts Longhorn 08/30/2004 08:39 AM
SLEEPING SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has decided to release Longhorn in 2006, earlier than planned. However, because it is coming out earlier, Longhorn will be trimmed of some of the more innovative stuff that has been seen in earlier builds.

On The Guts of a New Machine (Part Two)

On The Guts of a New Machine (Part Two) 12/02/2003 01:30 AM

My second response to a chunk in The New York Times article The Guts of a New Machine concerns the comments of Rob Glaser from RealNetworks. You can read my first response (on rapid design processes) here.

Three visions of Apple & the music player market in five years:

Nor will music bought through Apple's store play on any rival device. This means Apple is, again, competing against a huge number of players across multiple business segments, who by and large will support one another's products and services. In light of this, says one of those competitors, Rob Glaser, founder and C.E.O. of RealNetworks, ''It's absolutely clear now why five years from now, Apple will have 3 to 5 percent of the player market.''

It's an interesting position this, but I wonder if it's true. I mean, the iTunes Music Store has clearly been a bit of a success in the States, even if it's not going to topple retail CD sales any time particularly soon. An awful lot of people already have tracks from it, and - given Pepsi's deal to buy and give away 100 million tracks and MacDonald's rumoured deal for a further billion - a hell of a lot of other people are going to join them pretty soon. It seems clear that if Apple sell or distribute that number of tracks during this early period then it'll help them sell iPods straightaway. And later it should have an equally positive effect when people come to replaced their devices - the retention levels should be directly improved as a result. At least this much seems obvious - the more tracks you own, the more you then have to lose by transferring to a player that can't read them.

Now that's already a different sense of the future than that held (in public) by Rob Glasner. And it doesn't take a genius to try and push that a bit further. Given the scale of their lead, you could easily argue that the possibility exists for Apple to create de facto bought-music standard that is attached exclusively to their products. They'll have a lock-in. At which point the question emerges - how long is it in their best interests to maintain it?

Now, I've painted a fairly rosy picture of Apple's use of DRM and non-device-independent music files so far, but there are clearly disadvantages as well. History has shown us (with a few notable exceptions) that unless consumers and companies have little or no choice about whether to use them - things based on non-proprietary and vaguely open standards seem destined to 'win' in the long-term. They'll get used on the most devices and in the most interesting and dynamic (and obviously inexpensive) ways. In fact just last year I was arguing that Apple's resurgence was a direct result of steering away from this kind of proprietary activity (Apple and the Pirate Everyman). Their moves towards open standards seemed to be based around creating the best hardware and software for exploiting the (perhaps problematic / perhaps not) confusions and collapses around intellectual property.

But of course there's no reason why the style of DRM'd AAC that Apple use couldn't be subsequently opened up as an available format for use in other devices. And I don't doubt that if there was an economic rationale for doing something like that then they'd do it in a heart-beat. Say - for example - the restrictions were stopping more people buying the devices than they were retaining. So with that in mind, here are two more very very lightly-sketched out possibilities for Apple's future treatment of their DRM'd non-device-independent AAC format:

(1) Apple have leveraged their current dominance in legal downloads and players into a technology that they (perhaps) license to other players resulting in a situation like with plugins or (kind of) like Microsoft OS's, where almost no music player in the world can afford not to pay to play Apple Music Store tracks (compensating for the corresponding loss in iPod sales). (2) They just open the doors to other companies building players that can play Apple Music Store tracks. There are clearly technology issues around both of these issues (like - I believe - the way that the sale and subsequent approval of Music Store tracks are handled over the internet direct with Apple. But fundamentally, I can see no reason why the current chain between track and player could not subsequently be broken (or reinforced) according to the needs of the market.

Importantly, I'm not going to articulate my position on whether Apple's DRM-based, non-player-independent approach to the selling of music is the right or most moral one. If you find these issues interesting, then Jim Griffin and Cory Doctorow have a lot to say about it in a variey of places, including in the Aula Exposure book.

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Cell phone guts set to get beefier

Cell phone guts set to get beefier 09/09/2004 08:47 AM
SiliconValley.com Sep 9 2004 12:55PM GMT

Vodafone K.K. releases Vodafone 802N 3G
handset

Vodafone K.K. releases Vodafone 802N 3G
handset 02/05/2005 09:51 PM
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Chilean blob was whale-guts, not sea
monster

Chilean blob was whale-guts, not sea
monster 01/22/2004 12:46 PM
The 13 ton blob that washed up on Chile's shores last July is not the remains of a squid, sea monster or Cthuloid. It is "the highly decomposed remains of a sperm whale." Link

"New York Times: The Guts of a New
Machine By ROB WALKER"

"New York Times: The Guts of a New
Machine By ROB WALKER" 12/02/2003 12:28 AM

WFDF 2004 World Ultimate & Guts
Championships

WFDF 2004 World Ultimate & Guts
Championships 07/25/2004 07:54 AM
World Ultimate & Guts Championships .. lefel uchaf

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New Pahlaniuk story GUTS makes people
barf?

New Pahlaniuk story GUTS makes people
barf? 01/27/2004 10:18 AM
A controversial short story, "Guts," by Chuck Palahniuk is set for release in the March issue of Playboy. Rumor has it that when the author reads it in public, audience members flee, faint, and -- vomit. We don't know if this is true, but it sounds cool enough. Link 1, Link 2, Amazon link (Thanks, Susa nnah!)

Peek Inside First Intel Macs Reveals
Normal Guts

Peek Inside First Intel Macs Reveals
Normal Guts 06/24/2005 07:38 PM
Apple development systems are built of fairly standard Intel components, Apple trackers report, though the finished product may be different.

46 camel fucking subhumans with their
guts dangling from a pear tree

46 camel fucking subhumans with their
guts dangling from a pear tree 12/02/2003 01:54 AM
US Forces Kill 46 Iraqi Terrorists Attempting Ambush .. he settled for Ba'athist scum

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DoCoMo's 3G handsets get serious

DoCoMo's 3G handsets get serious 06/03/2004 12:37 AM
Engadget Jun 3 2004 3:49AM GMT

DoCoMo's new cameraphones

DoCoMo's new cameraphones 12/17/2003 01:15 PM
Details have leaked about five new FOMA 3G cellphones coming from DoCoMo in Japan, the N900i from NEC, the P900i from Panasonic, the F900i from...

DoCoMo's three new cameraphones

DoCoMo's three new cameraphones 12/11/2003 01:16 PM
Three new cameraphones from DoCoMo in Japan, the 1.3 megapixel SO505is from Sony Ericsson, which has a 2.3-inch, 262,000 color screen; the 1.3 megapixel N505is...

DoCoMo's 3G Alliance with Cingular

DoCoMo's 3G Alliance with Cingular 09/23/2004 07:01 AM
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NTT DoCoMo's 4G Tests Hit 300Mbps

NTT DoCoMo's 4G Tests Hit 300Mbps 06/01/2004 03:29 PM

DoCoMo's Smart Card Goes

DoCoMo's Smart Card Goes 05/25/2004 11:36 PM
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DoCoMo's 3G/WiFi phone

DoCoMo's 3G/WiFi phone 12/03/2003 03:50 PM
Confirmation that DoCoMo has a combination 3G/WiFi cellphone in the works that is set to go on sale next April. The idea is that people would be able to use wireless Voice over IP at the office and then roam on the 3G cellular network everywhere else. We're assuming you'd also be able to use the phone at WiFi hotspots, but that isn't clear yet. Read...

NTT DoCoMo's 4G research hits 1G bps

NTT DoCoMo's 4G research hits 1G bps 12/17/2004 06:42 PM
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Will DoCoMo's price cut strategy pay
off?

Will DoCoMo's price cut strategy pay
off? 07/31/2004 02:07 AM
Telecoms.com Jul 31 2004 5:13AM GMT

DoCoMo's 1Q Profits Slip 13%

DoCoMo's 1Q Profits Slip 13% 07/31/2004 06:53 AM
Wireless Watch Japan Jul 31 2004 11:30AM GMT

DoCoMo's New CEO Meets the Press

DoCoMo's New CEO Meets the Press 06/25/2004 08:43 AM
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A glimpse of DoCoMo's first e-wallet
cellphone

A glimpse of DoCoMo's first e-wallet
cellphone 06/08/2004 03:37 PM
Engadget Jun 8 2004 6:49PM GMT

NTT DoCoMo's Group Net Profit Triples
(AP)

NTT DoCoMo's Group Net Profit Triples
(AP) 05/07/2004 01:45 PM
AP - Japan's top mobile phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc., said Friday its group net profit more than tripled for the last fiscal year as subscribers to its advanced generation mobile phone service rose sharply.

NTT DoCoMo's object-recognizing
binoculars

NTT DoCoMo's object-recognizing
binoculars 03/28/2005 04:13 AM
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DoCoMo's Vision 2010 Video

DoCoMo's Vision 2010 Video 12/29/2004 01:28 AM
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