Regine at the wonderfully eclectic We Make Money Not Art has a really interesting post on another digital graffiti project in New York. An old train line through Lower Manhattan, forms the boundary between the Polish Chasidic Jewish community and the rest of NY in the early part of last century. While the physical boundary [...]
Archive | April, 2005
Who Needs Online Radio? Mobile Users.
I take back everything I ever said about Om Malik (just kidding, Om ): his latest piece for Business 2.0 on online radio, more specifically how it’s dead in the water, is wide of the mark in my estimation. I agree with a lot of Om’s assertions about the viability of streaming radio over wired [...]
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Citizen Content Creation
In the middle of Tomi’s interview, I interjected the following thoughts about Citizen Journalists: I think Citizen Journalism is actually a symptom of something altogether bigger – Citizen Content Creation, for want of a better phrase. Sure, we’ll have people taking pics and writing stuff for online and offline newspapers. But they’ll also create ringtones [...]
Mobile Sex Toy
Vibrafoon have launched a Java application for mobile phones that controls the vibrate alert function. This means that you can turn your phone into a “personal massager” or vibrator, if we want to really spell it out, along with a suitable throbbing graphic. But they do have subtler versions. Over and above the “erotic”, we [...]
Adult Content Huge
i-Mode Strategy has a round up of some facts, figures and interviews with leading pornographers. The common consensus is that it’ll be huge and err…throbbing? In Asia and Europe, people who download this kind of stuff, currently spend about $34 each per year on videos and images. Of course, the crucial question is then how [...]
Tomi Ahonen’s New Book – 10% Discount for Readers
No, this hasn’t turned into a Tomi Appreciation Society website and no, he’s not bribing me to say nice things or paying me in any way. But Tomi’s new book is out – Communities Dominate Brands – so I took the opportunity to get the first interview about it. I will also be reviewing it [...]
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Details on Real’s New Service
Om Malik comes through again with some details on RealNetworks’ big announcement scheduled for Tuesday: the company will announce Real Rhapsody To Go, a portable extension of its existing subscription service. The big scoop is that Rhapsody To Go will support the Microsoft Play4Sure DRM for use on portable devices, and for $15 a month [...]
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y teh iPod ownz, or, Rebutting the Rebuttal
Gizmodo earlier today linked to some seemingly serious site’s missive on “Why the iPod Rules and Everything Else SUCKS”, with Joel Johnson pointing out that she sounds like “99% of tech editors out there” — probably one of the few times he’s actually not making a joke. I then happened upon a week-old blog post, [...]
Loose Ends
Bits and pieces from last week, mostly: – US mobile content rating system in the works: The trade group of US mobile operators wants to define a standardized content rating and filtering system, not only to make it that much more difficult for kids to see porn, but to also pave the way for them [...]
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Apple, iTunes, iPhone and Motorola
Gizmodo says that the Motorola iTunes Phone “has been refused by almost every American wireless carrier” now. The reason won’t be because of the (presumably) sexy and sleek design. But because the operators want to be the ones who sell users music for their phones – over their own networks. The iPhone is designed to [...]
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