|
| Monday, May 6, 2002 |
 |
Disinter media 
| | Not sure what the headline means (or ought to mean), but I liked it and didn't want to forget it. |
| | Anyway, it came to mind when I visited MusicLink, which is about paying artists directly. Interesting idea. |
Another iOpener
| | I would have blogged live from the WWDC today if my Titanium could even begin to pick up a wifi signal. |
| | I was sitting behind Andrew Orlowski, whose iBook picked up a 50% strength signal on his Airport monitor, plus signals from six or eight weenies scattered around the floor, making one-liner remarks in the form of ad hoc wi-fi network signal names. My TiBook got no signal at all from the WWDC base station (wherever it was — in another room, probably, since Apple probably didn't want any distractions at the event), and just one of the bunch of signals Andrew (the bastard) got. |
| | What the hell: I got to take lots of notes. |
| | - Apple is smartly mixing open and closed source strategies, as if with hot and cold water valves (thanks to Dave for that metaphor). A lot of companies are struggling with ways to play both games as if they were one, and I can't see anybody doing it more skillfully than Apple right now.
- iChat has the best instant messaging (they call it chat) client, with the best user (and group) interface, period. As they did with iTunes, iPhoto, iPod and iDunnoWhatElse, they raised the bar and changed the game with one move. My question: is iChat Apple's value-add on AIM, or is it something new that only uses AIM as an added value? It's "AIM-compatible," the press release says. In any case, it's more than best of breed. It's a mutant that radically changes the breed.
- Rendezvous — which lets machines discover each other and share files over wi-fi and which Steve Jobs said was "open" and available to anybody — is killer. Here's more on the subject. And more again. With Apple pushing the technology the way they did with FireWire and USB, call it a standard.
- The new rack mount server coming out next week looks to me like an opening for lots of new business, and business categories.
|
Is Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood going to break along party lines?
| | Whatever else you think about Joe Biden's new bill, it raises a What's with the Dems? question. Five of the CBDTPA's six sponsors (Hollings, Inouye, Breaux, Nelson and Feinstein) are Democrats. Stevens is the lone Republican. Jack Valenti is surely still a Democrat too, having once served as Lyndon Johnson's press secretary. |
| | A pattern seems to be emerging. |
The Apple thing. Not the radio station in D.C.
| | I'm hitting the keynote at the WWDC in San Jose this morning. I doubt it'll be bloggable, but I dunno. |
| | Wondering ahead of time what the Linux/Unix angle will be (I'm following up on what Brent and I wrote here). Right now I see a lot of symbiosis in the form of Unix type guys walking around with Titania. |
All talk and no work makes Doc a tired boy
| | One of the reasons I like to take Amtrak is that many of the cars have electrical service. You can plug in your cell phone, your laptop, your camcorder... And the seating is almost as nice as first class on a plane, only you can get up and walk around, even when the train wobbles worse than a 737 in turbulent air. |
| | But sometimes a whole train will lack the service. To avoid booking trains that lack power outlets, I call ahead and ask again at the ticket office. Yes, this one has them, they told me. |
| | It didn't. And I had charged neither my laptop nor my cell phone. The laptop lasted about half an hour. The cell phone made it through two calls. |
| | But I sat behind a poet and next to (yes, again) a Nigerian gentleman who had lived in the U.S. for 5 years and knew a great deal about markets and economics. He thought that the world neededwhat he called "moral capitalism." Very interesting talk. |
| | So now I'm in Palo Alto, where I've wasted 45 minutes trying to figure out where Earthlink hides its SMTP setting info. Try looking for "SMTP" in Earthlink's site search. And look what isn't at the other end of the email info links on this page here. |
| | No need to tell me, though. I finally found "mail.earthlink.net" in an old email. Works, too. |
discuss
Copyright 2009 The Doc Searls Weblog
|
