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Re: RSS newsreaders are TiVo for blogs.
Excellent. Just blogged it. A thought: While TiVo needs blogspace community tools, the chances it'll get them verge on zero, since TiVo is a commercial company that sells a largely closed and proprietary consumer electronics device to consumers, and a tightly licensed sofrware platform to OEMs. In other words, for all its hipness, it's still a consumer electronics company, living in the consumer electronics market habitat. It's not about NEA. In our habitat, the one that lives on the Net, we have NewsCrawler, Radio Userland, NetNewsWire Technorati, Blogdex, Daypop and all those other commercial conveniences (among the most inventive of which are commercial entities)l because they build on an underlying environment that nobody owns, everybody can use and anybody can improve. Hence all the invention and innovation. The consumer electronics habitat, largely defined by cable, broadcasting and entertainment conglomerates and the regulatory agencies they essentially govern, broook no invention or innovation that doesn't come from inside their own labs, from their own engineers, for their own purposes as suppliers, distributors and facilitators of "content." The fact that TiVo came out of Silicon Valley rather than Japan doesn't make it any less a creature of its category. Nor does the fact that it clearly threatens the business models (e.g. TV advertising) of many of its fellow market inhabitants. My guess is that the dominant species in the consumer electronics habitat are cutting their teeth by crippling TiVo and others members of its species. They're getting practice for doing the same to Intel, IBM, Motorola and Apple (which is already making the changes necessary to live in the CE habitat). Bonus reading: Which Side is TiVo on. There are responses to this message:
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