Jeremy Allaire: Content IssuesBlog entries about digital content -- business models, distribution channels, unique approaches.Talk by NTT DoCoMo Managing Director of Strategy- April 26, 2003 Takeshi Natsuno, Managing Director for DoCoMo Strategy Keynote this morning from NTT executive, talking about i-Mode. He's showing us subscriber data for wireless Internet in the world. NTT dominates in the world, and then next five are Japan and Korea. Everyone else, including Europe and US are tiny in comparison. For many reasons, this hasn't been repeated in other geographies. He outlines the functional footprint of the 504 series. Interesting, the Nokia 3650 which is $150 in the US..http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/25.html#a202 Building the Infrastructure for Broadband, Panel- April 24, 2003 Jeff Huber, VP of Tech for eBay eBay generates $681 per second. How does ebay compare to other commerce players They're now 31st largest commerce provider, bigger than GAP, ToysRUs, and others. Where do they focus Front end (e.g. new and scarce products), end of life, and usedvintage products. Asser that this is nearly a $2 trillion market opportunity. Continue to see strong growth in most categories, but big in cars, home and garden, clothing and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/24.html#a201 Panel with Glaser, Seigelman, Eric Schmidt -- Broadband Applications- April 24, 2003 We have a distinguished group of panelists. Russ Seigelman -- Kleiner-Perkins, ran MSN for MicrosoftBob Meyers -- President of CNBCSalvador Arias -- IBM consulting, communications practiceRob Glaser (via video) -- RealNetworks CEOEric Schmidt (via video) -- CEO of Google Thoughts from each panelist. Russ -- big believers in broadband. what happens next hard to know. what's going to happen to usage broadband drives more use of the Internet. believes that 1:1 video...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/24.html#a200 Working with Dave Winer- April 24, 2003 Dave and I caught up last week over lunch at Henrietta's Table, a nice lunch and meeting spot at the Charles Hotel. He was one of the first victims of my new Nokia 3650 device (left picture was beamed to my PC when I was within range). As he noted about our conversation, we worked together in the past on the early genesis of "web services" as found in WDDX and XML-RPC. That was a fun time, and it's rewarding to see these concepts flourish on the Web today. One...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/23.html#a196 WiFi versus 3G- April 16, 2003 3G.co.uk picked up on a report from German market research firm Metrinomics: "WLAN will establish itself as the dominant mobile wireless infrastructure within the next five years at 3G&146;s expense according to a report published by Berlin based market researcher Metrinomics. Almost 90% of participants in the study also believe that WLAN will be the infrastructure of choice should their employers decide to implement an in-house infrastructure solution within the next five years." Lots of...http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/April2003/5225.htm AOL gets videophone religion- April 14, 2003 AOL gets videophone religion AOL Tests Video Instant Messaging Slashdot OK - so since AOL refused to open up the AIM protocol and stops folks like Jabber from inter-connecting their IM system to "the rest of us" - they've come up with a sneaky way of moving forward. Currently in beta testing, the new AOL feature will enable the service's subscribers to activate an additional pane on their IM client. Within that pane, users can record video clips of themselves via a Web cam, and then send that.http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/2184811 ENT 1.0 and RSS Metadata- April 14, 2003 ENT can provide great new functionality - NOW RDF still looking for a killer (set of) app(s). <snip> Lots of pratical kinds of apps and services could benefit from ENT and since it's RSS2.0 - all the current aggregators can access it. It'll be one of those quick adds, and give tool vendors all sorts of new ways to provide great value to their customers. Maybe these tool vendors can start to charge more :-) via Marc's Voice Marc has been tracking some great action around a...http://www.purl.org/NET/ENT/1.0/ Hydra: Collaborative Text Editor- April 14, 2003 I picked this up from my comments on the Social Software post. Hydra is an OSX-based text editor that uses Rendezvous protocols to facilitate real-time collaborative coding. It's from a dev team (Coding Monkeys) out of Germany. Real-time apps continue to excite and impress, and it's great to see different approaches --- using Rendezvous, Flash Communication Server, Groove, or the new Microsoft P2P SDK.http://radio.weblogs.com/0113297/categories/contentIssues/2003/04/14.html#a187 Powell on Powerline- April 10, 2003 "This is within striking distance of being the third major broadband pipe into the home," Powell said. "I'm a little bummed it's not (available) in my area." I think he means the forth major broadband pipe, as fixed and unlicensed wireless will be right in there too. But, it's great to see Powell pushing Powerline.http://news.com.com/2100-1034-996244.html?tag=cd_mh New Social Software Products- April 9, 2003 Social Software Making Progress The smaller the group, the more immediate value in the relationship. That's one notion behind an emerging phenomenon called social software" via Dan Gillmor's eJournal Dan's got some thoughts on the emerging category of "social software", a phrase Clay Shirky has been promoting. Another interesting company solving similar problems --- and one who was just on a panel moderated by Clay, also including SocialText --- is Providence, RI-based Traction...http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000899.shtml |