I’ve got two questions for you. And I have tried to get them answered in other places first – I just know that some of you readers are knowledgeable in a couple of areas where I don’t ace it (me? humble? neveh!) Question 1. Why does Google Search (Australia) hate this blog? If you go to google.com and search for social networks australia, this blog comes top. If you go to google.com.au and search for social networks this blog does not exist. And I do mean at all. My crappy world.com.au site comes up eventually but Laurel Papworth – Online Continue Reading…
Sep 172006
Computeractive.co.uk brought this information from Sean Nichols (vunet.com) to my attention – it’s the official release of Zune today: Microsoft has released details of its much-anticipated Zune media player. The device will offer 30GB of storage, access to online communities and music stores, and a wireless networking feature allowing users to share media. It will feature a 3in screen and come in black, brown or white. Unconfirmed reports claim that the Zune will sell at $299, and will be launched in time for the holiday season. The device is said to be based on Toshiba‘s Gigabeat player. What do they Continue Reading…
Lots and lots on the ‘net recently about Google Research into “Social- and Interactive-Television Applications Based on Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification” and how we would feel about Google listening into our real-life arguments and offering ads for marriage counselling. Oh ok, I admit, I haven’t actually seen that particular point being made, but I’m sure someone somewhere thought of it as well. The system compresses the captured audio into irreversible (emphasis theirs) summary statistics which are then compared to a database of mass media statistics and used to determine what the browser should display. Possible service offerings discussed in the paper Continue Reading…
I was looking at the court case between Nintendo vs Sony/Every Technology Company In the World regarding motion sensor devices, and noticed that Nintendo said that their little hand held console device that looks like a TV remote has… well, guess how many patents? It looks like a TV remote and has a handful of buttons on it. One patent? 5? 10? 25? Nope, he said 50 to 55 patents. What chance does the little guy (me!) have when we can barely afford one patent to protect our IP? Which is why when court cases like NTP vs RIM (Blackberry) Continue Reading…
Apr 302006
A number of people either dropped hardcopy on my desk or emailed me the article from The Sydney Morning Herald Simply the Best by David Stonehouse. By David Sifry’s count, there are more than 33 million blogs out there. He’s in a good position to know – he’s the founder and chief executive of Technorati www.technorati.com, a search engine for blogs I’ve already been to six out of 10 of those blogs – not bad going when you consider there are still 32,999,990 to go. Enter your opinion on the SMH blog here. BTW watch Technorati, they play their cards Continue Reading…
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