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Tuesday, 26 October 2004

Audio recording

Dave says::
This is an old-style Morning Coffee Notes, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 kind we did before we were doing audio blog posts, before cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y were called podcasts, back when we couldn't find any software to record our voices (seriously, PCs came with microphones, but search high and lo, hicá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r and yon, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re was no software to actually use cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 microphones in a most basic way).

Dave, you should have asked, instead of searching. Here's some free code to record audio using QuickTime from any Windows device. The code dates back to 1992, and was working on Windows in 1997.
This is what AOL use to do cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Audio/Video chat in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 latest AIM releases (that iteroperates with iChat).
Posted by Kevin Marks at 13:50 No comments: Links to this post

Value destroyed is not owned

Tim Oren writes on DRM as a warning sign:

Copy protection DRM always destroys end user value, in both convenience and robustness. When you see DRM in a business plan or analysis, it is always cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re to benefit someone ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r than cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 end user. Find out who, it will indicate where power lies in a content value chain.

The mere presence of DRM indicates a failure to deliver end user value. If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 information object were to lose value when extracted from cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bundle or service from it was derived, DRM would not be felt necessary. Therefore cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 presence of DRM suggests a vendor that is behind cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 curve, failing to find a new value to deliver as cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir chokepoint disappears in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 digital world.

Tim is correct that DRM destroys value, but he is mistaken in his implication that it can just be Customer value that is destroyed. The 0th law of economics is that a trade only happens when both parties see cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365mselves as gaining from it. If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Customers see less value, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y pay less for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 product, and its value is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365reby reduced. This kind of short-sightedness is foolish enough with conventional goods, but is especially stupid with digital media, when you have no measurable marginal cost of goods and can carry over Customers' excitement into ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r goods.

Posted by Kevin Marks at 02:29 No comments: Links to this post

Tuesday, 19 October 2004

How about mass video editing?

Mark Cuban has some ideas for improving TiVos. This reminded me of an idea I had while watching cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Olympics. TiVo collects data on which programs have been watched, which bits were fast-forwarded, and which were played more than once or in slow motion.
Imagine if it took something like cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Olympics, or a baseball or football game, and collated everyone's replay speeds, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365n offered up various highlights packages- cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 most viewed 5 minutes; most viewed hour and so on. This would naturally edit out all commercials, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 commentators padding, and show which bits of action people as a whole found interesting.

Posted by Kevin Marks at 09:43 1 comment: Links to this post

Monday, 18 October 2004

Losing language sales

This weekend we attended cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Home School Geography Club, which was about Viet Nam, and enjoyed it immensely. Our friends cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Hamiltons hosted it and, among many ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r fascinating things, taught us as few words in Vietnamese, and fed us Phô .
However when writing out cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Vietnamese sheets, Bich was adding cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 accents by hand on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 printout. It turns out that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Vietnamese keyboard inclued with OS X is far too hidden for anyone but experts to find(System Preferences, International, Input Menu Tab, and check cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ones you want in a scrolling list).

This reminded me of an idea I had for an Apple ad campaign to highlight OS X's language support.

What I suggest is a poster campaign, showing a localised Mac screen running Mail with large type saying

Macintosh speaks your languages
Except that you do it as a teaser.

Start with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 least common (in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 US) languages Apple localises to, eg Korean, and work your way up cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 demographic to English, changing posters once a week or more often

매킨토시는 너의 언어를 말한다
マッキントッシュは言語を話す
Macintosh говорит ваши языки
Macintosh fala suas línguas
Macintosh spricht Ihre Sprachen
Macintosh parle vos langages
Macintosh habla sus lenguajes
Macintosh speaks your languages

Each time you change a poster and add a language, you switch cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 outer UI (menus etc) to that language. You deliberately place cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 posters in non-ethnic areas, so cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y are cryptic to most.
(Obviously, you get native speakers to translate cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 slogan instead of using Sherlock like I did).

47 million Americans speak a non-English language, according to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 2000 Census. 26 million also speak English well, 21 million are less proficient. Millions more learn a foreign language in school.

Imagine cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 media buzz cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365se cryptic posters would generate, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 feeling of pride cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 bilingual people would have when cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y see an ad in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir language, out in public.
In ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r countries, you do cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same thing with a different language order.

Posted by Kevin Marks at 21:49 No comments: Links to this post

Thursday, 14 October 2004

Heckling cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 debate in irc

Dave Winer put up an mp3 of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 debate; David Weinberger organised an irc chat to heckle it.
I combined cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 two:

You can call this audioblogging with comments or maybe it is something else.Note that if you open it in QuickTime Player, you can search cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 text for keywords like 'flu' or 'bin Laden'.

Direct link: http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/johodebate.mov
Posted by Kevin Marks at 07:24 No comments: Links to this post

Friday, 1 October 2004

Hackaton at Technorati next Wednesday


As we'll have a huge concentration of web geeks just up cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 road at Web 2.0 next week, we decided to have a hackathon at Technorati on Wednesday night.

Bring your laptops and brains, and hack on our API and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r web code.


RSVP promptly

Posted by Kevin Marks at 11:27 No comments: Links to this post
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Kevin Marks works on IndieWeb and open web tech. From 2011 to 2013 he was VP of Open Cloud Standards at Salesforce. From 2009 to 2010 he was VP of Web Services at BT. From 2007 to 2009, he worked at Google on OpenSocial. From 2003 to 2007 he was Principal Engineer at Technorati responsible for cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 spiders that make sense of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 web and track millions of blogs daily. He has been inventing and innovating for over 25 years in emerging technologies where people, media and computers meet. Before joining Technorati, Kevin spent 5 years in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 QuickTime Engineering team at Apple, building video capture and live streaming into OS X. He was a founder of The Multimedia Corporation in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 UK, where he served as Production Manager and Executive Producer, shipping million-selling products and winning International awards. He has a Masters degree in Physics from Cambridge University and is a BBC-qualified Video Engineer. One of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 driving forces behind microformats.org, he regularly speaks at conferences and symposia on emergent net technologies and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir cultural impact.
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