So you like to have a „live look“ into the world: just google for something like „inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=“, „inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh“, „inurl:axis-cgi/jpg“, „inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg“, „inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml“, „inurl:view/index.shtml“, „inurl:view/view.shtml“ – and you’ll find dozens of unsecured security cams: or just click here for a live example (is it china, japan,…???)
Well, being in the web 2.0 business and not blogging at all? No way 😉 So here it is – the motionet blog, „techi-style“ 😉
So Google has released the android sdk – and yes, it looks nice in their demo video. But it’s only a video… It seems to be a good strategy to me not to build their own gPhone – Apple has build a beautiful phone with the iPhone, but it’s not a good phone regarding voice quality, basic technical features like 3G etc. What Google tried to build with all of their web-apps is the web OS – but control over hardware still was at the browser and the underlying OS. So now it’s their first „real“ OS, taking control over hard ware features like initiating phone calls, evoking emails and so on. The goal of that strategy is in the huge developer community maybe starting to build cool mobile apps – but why haven’t they with Symbian? There are already cool apps out there, so why another OS? Of course it makes sense for google, but as long as telcos route the traffic, the market will remain a walled garden. Telcos charge you for „offnet“ traffic (offnet = www, onnet = portals of the telcos) and will in the future – the only remaining chance for growth for telcos for the next 5 years is in data traffic – and here might be the point: when the demand for offnet features grows, and it might because of cool apps build on OS like android, it’s a winning situation for the telcos on the short and mid term – but it won’t be over the long term. Telcos will have to find new ways of monetize their service – infrastructure on its own will not last over the next ten years. Telcos have carefully recognized this development and will react, like building music- and video stores selling products there or building alliances and sell bundled products (get a fridge, 100 songs and a mobile for 100$, electricity included for the next 24 month). But it’s going to be a tough fight for every single customer. With android google has launched a platform they can monetize in the long term – and that’s why you still should buy GOOG 😉
Or is it twitterriffic putting some ads in there… seemd to be mac-specific advertisement so I think its twitterriffic…
As iTWire reports, Radiohead new Album was downloaded 2 mill. times in total. Radiohead offered the Download as „free to pay“ – appr. 40 % of the Downloaders were willing to pay about $US 2,26, which is more than 100% more as the normal refund via majors (about $US 1). I wouldn’t have thought, that ANY one would have paid for the album, because a widely spread opinion is, that on the internet everything is free. I see this example as an example majors should look at carefully – users are willing to pay for quality – there’s money out there, but the revenue streams are changing. Users will pay $US 40 for a high quality broadband connection – but they won’t pay for $US 1,99 per Full Track Music Download. I’m seeing quite interesting business models popping out there, especially represented through intelligent bundles (à la get your iPod for $10 more, but filled up with 100 songs).
Hui, what I like most with OSX ist he exposé – now it’s here for Vista – free and works great.
Im blogging since 2003 and seem to have my seasons.
In total I wrote 478 blogposts and it looks, as if the summer is not the best blogging season for me.
What I’ve noticed is that I had a very bad 2006 – 67 compared to 226 back in 2004 😉 But in times of twitter and a possible „overkill“ of information and communication channels I now find blogging „interesting“ again. It’s because it’s not too fast – one can think of the articles one wants to write an since some weeks it’s getting real fun again. Let’s see how it develops in 2008 😉
<?php
$filename = „post.htm“;
$fp = fopen ($filename, „r“);
$inhalt = fread ($fp, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fp);
$array = explode(„DATE: „,$inhalt);
for ($i=0; $i< count($array); $i++)
{
echo substr($array[$i], 0, 11).“,“;
}
?>
This gives you all the dates of your posts, separated by comma
Just found this neat site still online on some deep apple internet servers – had googled for „apple mail imap concurrent connections“ and came there: 
Well, long time ago this was the tec sheet for „Apple Share IP“ (OS 8.1?) 😉 Cool Apple vintage style 😉
Loic wanted feedback, so here’s mine ;): Loic has just startet his fifth company, seesmic, and it’s going t be something like twitter for video. What I like is the idea of quickly recording yourself in a video message in order to express some quick thoughts, like Oli did today. We’ve done something similar in a kind of karaoke system: on fan-clips.de, which is the football fan community of the 1.FC Köln, you can record yourself, while watching the official club hymn: you can win a prize when the jury has voted you as best singer – see my bad trials here – I definitely won’t win ;). But back to seesmic: what I see as kind of problematic is that in video the publisher defines the speed of the reception of the viewer: I can only get the information from the video-message, when the person has "spoken" it, "acted" or whatever. When I read my RSS Feeds, or my twitter feed, I can quickly jump to the next paragraph, kind of "scan" an article for keywords and just read that particular part. So it would be great for seesmic to have a system for comments or viewpoints you can jump to, which have clear tags. They should be able to be set by the publisher in an easy way and extended by the community. When I slide over them with my mouse, I could "scan" the whole movie in advance – maybe a kind of preview picture could be implemented, too. Got some ideas in that direction…
A year ago I wrote about the then just launched T-Community, which was a first step of the Deutsche Telekom in the world of user generated content. Now I got an email telling me „Thanks a lot for all your feedback – but we’ll close the community by the end of the year – you may export your data, but you can’t use it any longer.“ (not that I have EVER used it, but anyway…) But it’s quite funny, that they offer me to change my account to fussball.de – in case I want to use all of my community features in the future…fussball.de is a t-com driven special interest community in football – quite interesting strategy of them – seems as if they see no future in „global“ communities but in special interests…