
Funniest thing I've seen on the web this week.
Not counting nuts and bolts RepRap can make 60% of its parts; the other parts are designed to be cheaply available everywhere. This is an interesting coincidence: we can make 60% of our proteins; the other parts are evolved to be cheaply available everywhere...
With tens of thousands of videos being uploaded every day you would have to think a reasonable percentage would be interested in paying more for better quality downloading?
Or are people that are concerned using Veoh and other platforms like that etc.
Cheers,
Dean
BTW: Do you think YouTube would really be as interesting if they got rid of the 96% as suggested by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Cheers,
Dean
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3419
http://gizmodo.com/5026961/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-potters-field
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1036717/Vauxhall-prepares-jaw-dropping-stunt-advertise-new-model.html
http://media.gm.com/servlet/GatewayServlet?target=http://image.emerald.gm.com/gmnews/viewpressreldetail.do?domain=2&docid=47239
Blue Pulse is an Australian company, now west coast refugee, doing the PR rounds at the moment.
No real secrets in this interview more a fluff pr piece but great to see yet another aussie mobile company making waves over here.
It's surprising there aren't more mobile messaging platforms out there as when you think about it SMS is really nothing more than passing straight text with no conversational functionality or dialog and really 'expensive text' at that, even at only 5 or 10c a message, it's definitely ripe for replacement.
The issue is obviously going to be fragmentation.....and for investors whats hot today can be usurped tomorrow by some kid in Bangalore working out of his parents garage and steal all of your fickle users with yet the next development in social messaging.
Cheers
Dean
http://www.mediamonkey.com/information/free/
Check it out and download the free version. It pretty much only took me 2 or 3 days before I realised I was happy to pay for the full version, lol though ominously I paid yet again for the lifetime upgrade option.... again. (inside joke for musicmatch users who said they didn't mind yahoo taking over the product but for those of us that paid for lifetime upgrades we didn't realise that meant downgrades as well).
Love some of the add-ons like remote web browser control (so i can use a laptop to turn up down change song etc my main media pc).
Be aware this is a bit of a steep learning curve in learning how to configure all the options but after you live with it for a few days you'll love it.
Cheers,
Dean
Head tracking VR from a wii remote;
How cool is that video demo; until the front target slides out of view to the right of the display it really does look like it was sitting 'in front' of the tv screen.
Would have been interesting to see from a different POV eg. someone sitting in another living room chair to see what the see at the same time. eg have 2 video's running side by side.
Cheers,
Dean
Whats funny in the article is that they display an iPhone which you cant install a reader onto without jail-breaking the handset and installing the software illegally :)
Yes it's only something a geek would notice and the iphone does make for flashy graphics.....but you have to wonder :)
BTW want to see a QR code working on an iPhone - sshhhh, it's not possible :)
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It's been a great week though - even though I'm on the other side of the world I've picked up 2 QR consulting projects for Australian clients.
Eg. go and download this application and we'll mash it up with some other data to tell you where people are.
Cool concept but the issue of "data access" is the real killer here. Getting access to "where handsets are" is the real problem....and carriers are stuck in the mud about sharing.
I've seen some really great web services but these all rely in some form of another from opt-in services which suffer from "inertia issues".
There have been some traffic related cell phone projects like http://www.physorg.com/news76178303.html and http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/audio/articles/123531/article.html
but none of these 'subsidised the end user'. So i think there needs to be a new solution the same way there is for Virgin SugarMama Minutes - so the proposal is this, allow your cell phone to be 'tracked' and data from this to be sold to anonymized data services like Citysense in return for a 10% reduction in your cell phone costs.
BUT the carriers cant sell your location data without you signing up for this program. I know that for $10-15 a month discount I dont care if you use my location data, but if you are selling it and I dont get anything from it then I'm pissed.
Just look at what happened with BT and Phorm, they could have got that adopted in like 1 month if they paid people for their data, lol wouldn't have cost more than a few glass beads like wallpapers or mp3 downloads etc. They just chose to take the easy route.
Lol I love this comment
http://www.citysense.com/moreInfo.php
"The company plans to profit primarily from business clients purchasing deeper data from the Macrosense platform; Citysense and all future consumer applications are intended to be strictly icing on the cake".
In other words we got some vc funding and we are going to work out later how to make money.
Cheers,
Dean
P.S. If location apps "float your boat" then you might also like to check out Cityware a bluetooth application I blogged about last year.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/cityware-facebook-bluetooth-application.html