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Friday, 14 September 2007

iPod progress

I got an new iPod nano for my birthday yesterday. I considered cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 iPhone and iPod Touch, but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir poor keyboard won't replace my Sidekick, and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y omitted cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 most important features.
Specifically, iPhone lacks instant messaging, and both iPhone and iPod touch have Wifi, yet unaccountably don't support iTunes song sharing.

A bit of context here — back when we were pitching Wifi and Zeroconf to Steve Jobs at Apple, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 killer demo was cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 iTunes + QuickTime sharing of music and videos — Macs in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same room finding each ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r and making cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir music libraries and videos mutually available, whecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r you have a router or not. The underlying protocol here is called DAAP, which is just some conventions for using HTTP 1.1 to play remotely and update cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 song list.

However, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 edition of iTunes this went out in was unfortunately cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 same one that added cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 iTunes Store. From our developer point of view, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 fact that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re were 4 separate open source interoperating implementations of DAAP within a week was a big burst of validation for our efforts, but this caused huge confusion among cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Record Labels that Jobs had invested so much time in schmoozing to set cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 store up. Eventually, after too many arguments with Label execs where he tried to explain "but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 songs bought from iTunes Store won't be playable remotely, just cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 CD-ripped ones", he insisted cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 protocol be changed, which it was, several times.

The social sharing of music via iTunes is still a new and lovely feature of offices, campuses and coffee shops everywhere. But cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 iPhone users are left out in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 cold. They can't see iTunes libraries, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y can't share cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir own songs. Watching cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 launch of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 "buy cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 song playing in Starbucks" feature, my immediate thought was "Steve, do you want to change cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world, or do you just want to sell sugared coffee to kids?"

That said, I am a big fan of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 206 dpi screen on cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 new iPod nano. I did cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 maths, and that implies a full HD screen (1920x1200 with room for a controller bar) that is about 9.5 inches by 6 inches - sounds like a nice new Apple subnotebook for MacWorld January. Three and a half years ago, I pointed out cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 very rapid growth of storage per buck. I now have an iPod that is half cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 price, a tenth cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 weight and volume, and that plays video as predicted.

Posted by Kevin Marks at 00:58 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: DAAP, http, iPod, iTunes, nano, zeroconf

Monday, 10 September 2007

Bubbles and Facebook

A few days back, danah asked:

I am utterly confused by cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 ways in which cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 tech industry fetishizes Facebook. There's no doubt that Facebook's F8 launch was *brilliant*. Offering APIs and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 possibility of monetization is a Web 2.0 developer's wet dream. (Never mind that I don't know of anyone really making money off of Facebook aside from cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Poker App guy.) But what I don't understand is why so much of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 tech crowd who lament Walled Gardens worship Facebook. What am I missing here? Why is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 tech crowd so entranced with Facebook?

This made me think of my sure-fire bubble indicator:

When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble.

[...}The trouble with this indicator is that if you aren't looking for it it seem like cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 natural order of things - of course having personable young things hanging on your every word is to be expected - finally you're getting cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 recognition you deserve!

In practice, however, cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 finely-tuned herd instincts that get selected for in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Ivy League or cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 posher UK universities make cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m flock to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 latest bubble

By this measure, we are well into a bubble in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Valley, (Google being cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 top company of choice for MBA's is one example), but Facebook has a perfect conjunction here - growing out of Harvard and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Ivy League, it started out with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 very crowd of high-achieving conformists that danah called hegemonic teens, who make up my leading indicator, so when cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y connected with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 tech crowd cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 mentos hit cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 coke.

Posted by Kevin Marks at 09:44 3 comments: Links to this post
Labels: bubble, facebook, graduates

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Journalists slumming online

I've realised why I got quote so cross with Andrew Keen and cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 way he portrays cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 net as 'corrupting'. Pagan Kennedy's essay on MySpace reminded me, and Tom's passionate defence of his blog against PR slummers who want to use him as a mouthpiece confirmed this thought. There is a temptation online, and that is to go slumming - to pretend that you can abuse people's trust and emotions without fear of personal consequences, that people online are somehow not real and so you can toy with cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m and remain above it. A while back at Making Light, Lucy Kemnitzer explained this well:

Slumming isn't going to a seedy place. Slumming is taking your superior attitude and your certainty that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 world is your Disneyland in with you. It's looking at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 people who work cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re as performing monkeys putting on a show for you. It's being cushioned by your privilege. It's thinking that if cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 place is raided, surely you will be passed over because you're not one of those people. It's running a narration in your head where you are cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 normal observer, and those guys are cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 freaks.

You can do it almost everywhere. I've seen people do it on an ordinary residential street in a city, going into a corner restaurant or working man's bar as if it were cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Exotic And Dangerous Gangsta Exhibit at a Los Vegas cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365me hotel. I've seen people do it at a flea market in an ordinary rural town. Or at cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 weekly get-togecá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r of a community, where cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y danced and sang and gave each ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r presents (a pow-wow). I saw people doing it at my college, thanks to a former Governor and President calling it a cross between a hippie pad and a bordello.

Here's a clue about how not to go slumming when you enter a place: shed your privilege and your pretensions to superiority. If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y play music that isn't to your taste, maybe it's because cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y hear something in it that you don't, so listen. If cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y're presenting an image you find disturbing, maybe you're not looking at it right. If you can't get out of your own skull while you're cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365re, maybe you belong somewhere else.

When Keen (p76) cites Michael Hiltzik and Lee Siegel (both journalists who got caught in sock-puppetry online - posting hagiographic comments about cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365mselves through pseudonyms), it is not cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir perfidy he condemns, but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Internet as enabler. In fact, it is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir slumming and condescension that is cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 problem - cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir longing for freedom from consequences of cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir actions that led cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365m astray. Keen himself is a knowing troll, trying to be cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Simon Cowell of Web 2.0, and behaving like a pantomime villain to get web conferences to boo him. The ultimate example of this kind of slumming was Michael Skube's polemic against blogs, profoundly rebutted by Jay Rosen. Pagan Kennedy's tone is dancing around cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 edges of slumming - she starts out with "OMG drunk teenagers", but cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 article comes to realise that people online are human too, and makes fun of her own original attitudes.


abi sums it up:
The girls in question would not have been slumming if cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y had been going to drink cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 drinks, chat to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 patrons, or see cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 dancers. They weren't. They were going to watch cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365mselves drink cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 drinks, chat to cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 patrons, and see cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 dancers. It's like Kundera's definition of kitsch - cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 last layer of self-observation determines cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 definition.
Posted by Kevin Marks at 11:16 8 comments: Links to this post
Labels: Andrew Keen, blogging, journalists, Pagan Kennedy, PR, slumming

Sunday, 2 September 2007

Will botnets compete with Amazon S3?

Reading about cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 Storm Worm's botnet being bigger than supercomputers I was reminded of a prediction I've been making for a while. Spamming and phishing and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365r bad behaviour relies on overwhelming miniscule conversion rates through huge volume, so it has to free-ride on ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365rs' resources to actually make money. However, large distributed computing is being commoditised, by Amazon's S3 and E3C and ocá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365rs. At some point cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365 botnets will realise that cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365y can make more money by competing with Amazon or Akamai to store data in cá cược thể thao bet365_cách nạp tiền vào bet365_ đăng ký bet365ir stochastic cloud of compromised computers. A variant of memcached with a redundant hashing algorithm, or maybe an adaptation of Freenet would be obvious places to start; for all I know this already exists.
Posted by Kevin Marks at 08:13 2 comments: Links to this post
Labels: akamai, amazon, botnet, cloud computing., s3
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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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