A new killer app

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Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit

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Killer Rabbit 07/09/2004 03:03 AM
make sure you pack an extra boomerang .. quite aggressive

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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]...

Spy Killer v4.0

Spy Killer v4.0 09/24/2004 07:32 PM
Spy 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]

Killer Gaming Rig

Killer Gaming Rig 03/22/2005 09:57 PM

Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever

Why There Will Be No iPod Killer -- Ever 03/30/2005 11:33 AM

Why? 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

Other News: Car Killer

Other News: Car Killer 07/12/2004 11:01 AM
David 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 PM
From Etan comes a Liberal Dance Party tune: Dick Is A Killer Some more tracks at the Party Party.

The Linux Killer

The Linux Killer 07/28/2004 04:04 AM

Killer origami

Killer origami 12/17/2003 11:53 PM
Amazing gallery of spectacular origami. Link (Thanks, Kate!)

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.

Killer UCAVs on the Way

Killer UCAVs on the Way 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Noah 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.

Psycho Killer

Psycho Killer 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
A 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...

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 ...

A killer Web site

A killer Web site 02/12/2004 05:46 AM
USA Today Feb 12 2004 10:06AM GMT

Killer frozen out of will

Killer frozen out of will 02/13/2004 08:05 PM
Police use new powers to prevent a convicted murderer cashing in on her husband's will.

Which One is the iPod Killer?

Which One is the iPod Killer? 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 18 2004 1:50AM GMT

The Game Boy killer?

The Game Boy killer? 10/30/2003 12:36 PM
Another 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...

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]

The Killer Library App?

The Killer Library App? 06/01/2004 11:22 PM

Ho 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?

An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet

An Appetite Killer for a Killer
Appetite? Not Yet 04/18/2005 11:23 PM
Hoodia gordonii, a plant from Africa, is being touted as nature's hunger buster, but its effectiveness and safety is under question.

Killer Instinct

Killer Instinct 05/24/2004 07:51 AM
Killer Instinct 0.41

Containing a Killer Flu Virus

Containing a Killer Flu Virus 04/14/2005 07:00 AM
Laboratories 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.

Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2

Zero PopUp Killer XP v5.2 12/09/2003 08:42 PM
Zero 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]

Program Killer

Program Killer 06/17/2004 09:07 PM
Lack of Updates

Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus

Killer Bug Looks Like a Virus 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Health 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...

Mark of a killer

Mark of a killer 05/14/2004 06:15 AM
USA Today May 14 2004 10:43AM GMT

Popup Killer v4.0

Popup Killer v4.0 06/19/2004 07:21 AM
PopUp Killer is a small program that can automatically close previously selected Windows. [Shareware $13.00 30 Days 3.4 MB]

Killer companies

Killer companies 07/02/2004 08:13 AM
Post-"Fahrenheit," the stellar documentaries -- including "The Corporation" and "Imelda" -- just keep coming. Plus: A moody meditation on familial love, or homoerotic cologne ad?

Killer urged to hand himself in

Killer urged to hand himself in 04/14/2004 02:37 PM
Police appeal to murderer James McCormick to give himself up after almost a week on the run.

E-fit issued in hunt for killer

E-fit issued in hunt for killer 08/27/2004 01:34 PM
The Met offers a £15,000 reward and issues an e-fit in the case of a BBC employee who was stabbed to death in the street.

Another ipod killer: It's a Sony

Another ipod killer: It's a Sony 07/07/2004 06:09 PM
TechTree Jul 7 2004 10:40PM GMT

$50 Microsoft iPod Killer? Feh!!

$50 Microsoft iPod Killer? Feh!! 05/28/2004 09:39 AM
Microsoft 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.

Another iPod killer rumor

Another iPod killer rumor 05/28/2004 10:46 AM

What 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 ]

Finucane killer gets 22 years

Finucane killer gets 22 years 09/16/2004 07:42 AM
A loyalist who confessed to the "cruel and callous" murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is jailed for life.

Mark Cuban, DVD killer

Mark Cuban, DVD killer 09/17/2004 11:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Dallas Mavs and HDNet owner Mark Cuban has an interesting blog entry today on the future of DVDs and PVRs:

I love looking for ways to screw up conventional wisdom. Right now in the entertainment world, the conventional wisdom is that both sides on the HD DVD vs Blue Ray DVD will battle it out and a standard for HD on DVD will emerge. No one is trying to rush to a compromise because the big media companies want to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out the current DVD business cycle.

Good. The longer it takes, the less chance any format of DVD has of having a place in the future of home entertainment. Don’t look now, but the price and size of hard drives have fallen like a rock, while capacities have soared, with no slowdown in site.

Which leads to the question — What is the best way to distribute content? DVDs which will be limited in capacity to 9.4gbs on a single DVD for another year, and then after that 50gbs on a single disk for years to come after that, or rewritable media that can hold 2gb already in a device half the size of a pen, or in a hard drive that can hold 200GBs plus in a drive the size of your cell phone?

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Attack of the Killer Attorneys

Attack of the Killer Attorneys 04/21/2004 02:22 PM
When it comes to shareholder lawsuits, reality's a bit different from appearances.

Killer 'dangerous and disturbed'

Killer 'dangerous and disturbed' 04/21/2004 12:50 PM
A killer's lawyer tells a jury his client should not be released because he still poses a threat to the public.

Blogs: The Marketing Killer

Blogs: The Marketing Killer 08/13/2004 04:00 PM
Internet News Aug 13 2004 8:01PM GMT
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