Digital Drugs (Beta)

My New Blog: www.digitaldrug.us

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:20:00 +0000

My new blog is in a beta version, I know that also this is in a beta version maybe also my life is in a beta version but I did some progress. Please follow it on
http://www.digitaldrug.us/ on serendipity platform

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Spider Net

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:56:00 +0000

Image by Steve Ford Elliott

Is it possible? Is anybody blind?

Spider is for definition "any of numerous predaceous arachnids of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs that serve as nests and as traps for prey."

For analogy the spider is considered a strategy planner because uses tools that the victims don't see and it wait that the victim fall in the "net" (trap).

A search engine uses a software called "spider" to scan the net, and it is the core of the search engine.

That means Spider = search engine.

If GOOGLE is the most "important" search engine that means it is "the spider of the net".

Often people told me that most of the google services' don't make money eccept for ad-sense and the search.

Later having read this news "Google - King of the Wireless World" I am more sure what I wrote in this my post "Spider web strategies" and that the free google services' tomorrow will be the standard software for future mobile devices, where a mobile device could be a laptop pc, according to Dan Morril at the “O’Relly ETech conference on emerging technology”.

Maybe tomorrow I will write "the spider has eaten the dinosaur"

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Dada Ad to manage ads on Vodafone's mobile network in Italy

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:20:00 +0000

Image by Leonardo Buitrago

I'am reading the news (Or advertising?) that said that Dada AD has been confirmed to manage ads on Vodafone's mobile network in Italy.

Dada Ad has the 49% of Italian mobile advertising market.
Dada Ad has offered free content, Vodafone live portal and important service like Freetime SMS e Freetime MMS according with eMarketer research that esteems more important sms advertising than banner (at the moment).

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All around advertising

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:41:00 +0000

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I pick out my del.icio.us news through more than 300 news in the week on topics like mobile advertising, mobile usability, mobile design.

Most of the news are about mobile advertising.

All the thing on the web turn around advertising and if you don't like it, sooner or later you will like it.

A web page unless advertising doesn't have hold sway.
Advertising give at the page a buiness value and warants that the web site is not an amatorial web site just for hobbies but a business.
If you are not agree about it, try to think at the advertising wall on the construction building in the city centre. They are nice. They are better than grey net protections.

People is not scary by advertising but people esteem it.

The same for sponsor links.
In the first time people doesn't click on them (if they know) now big company use sponsor link to index themselves on the top.

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Firefox User Agent Switcher

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:11:00 +0000

It could be really useful have Firefox and the “user agent switcher”, a plugin made by Chris Pederick, if you are going to develop mobile device web site. That tool allows your browser to be changed with another device and fake the server sniffer.

To install it follow these steps:

Download and install the user agent plugin at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59,
Restart your browser
Go to Tools>User Agent Switcher>Options>Options>User Agents
Press Add and insert the device name ie "Nokia n95" in the description field
Insert this string: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 in the “User Agents” field.

it's about 6 month I'm using this plugin and I think it has made my life more simple.
Limitation is the not really faithful rendering of the page. That means what you see is not you see on the real device. However this is a useful tool to search, testing, and read the xhtml code of other mobile sites

For mor information go to Chris Pederick's page

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Drugs Pills has moved out of the content

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:19:00 +0000

Hy guys I am quite happy. What I was thinking has made been real.
It is about Drugs Pills my weekly review on the most important news about mobile.

It was a little bit of time that I thought finding a system to computerize the process reading information from del.icio.us.
Today I was reading this post http://adamcohenrose.blogspot.com/2008/04/momolondon-mobile-user-experience.html by Adam Cohen-Rose when I saw it:
"The Adam Cohen-Rose favorite" on his blog.

Oh thanks Adam, I'm so lazy a lot of time I’ve seen the setting link in del.icio.us but I never tried it.
Just I spent a lot of time looking for news, subscription and see people network on del.icio.us.

So now I'll try to move my weekly review on the right panel :) cooool (I’m also redesigning my blog, I know it is fucking unusable)

Bless you
Ps. I know you know del.icio.us, one of the best social web application of the web.

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MSN Direct

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Last week I've informed about "Seven application for mobile devices" in drugs pills.
The article describes several software where there is MSN Direct, a widget that allows to download data by MSN network offering a best user experience.

According to Brad Lidner in Download Squad, it is a"preview version" a fancy word to say beta version.

With MSN Direct it is possible download data using Wi Fi, 3G or EDGE but unfortunately it is available just for 15 devices (see http://phone.msndirect.com/phone/phonefinder.html).

MSN Direct is a service available for navigation devices, mobile devices, stazioni metereologiche e smart watch.

Through mobile devices is possible to see News, Entertainment, money and sport.

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Drugs Pills, Week 12

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:22:00 +0000

A little abstract how works the technology world... Silverlight, Flash, DoubleClick, Android, Google..
http://www.sys-con.com/read/514470.htm

Silverlight 2.0. release. Interestings link for mobile
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/4068.aspx

We like Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13863

Seven Windows Mobile applications: mDigger, Skype, Opera Mini, WorldMate, Pim Backup, MSN Direct, Pocket Digital Clock.
http://www.cio.com/article/195800/Seven_Fantastic_Free_Windows_Mobile_Apps/1

Silverlight 1.0 for Mobile
http://bink.nu/news/silverlight-1-0-for-mobile.aspx

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Drugs Pills, week 11

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:41:00 +0000

Yahoo announced the upcoming release of Yahoo One Place a mobile CMS, that allow Yahoo to create a similar version of del.icio.us for mobile
http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/03/yahoos_oneplace_1.html

iPhone and Flash a difficult understanding..
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/05/steve_jobs_pans_flash_on_the_iphone.html

Mobile advertising, a worth place
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=77832

Jason Bigler's 2 cent. A DoubleClick vice president opinion on mobile advertising
http://www.theage.com.au/news/biztech/mobile-net-hamstrung/2008/03/03/1204402367650.html

Brad Becker, Nokia e Silverlight.
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/08/video-interview-with-brad-becker-talking-about-silverlight-for-nokias-lineup-demo-included.html

Long and short of mobile video
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3628601

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Google Android: fresh grass for the new generations

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:37:00 +0000

Dan Morril said that Android could be used on mobile device different from a phone, at the “O’Relly ETech conference on emerging technology”.

The GOOGLE OS could be also installed on iPhone but it has some little security problems.
According to Morril those are unimportant problems if compared to the advantage that the system offers. The system is also young and will be updated.

Google want to release safe and easy applications getting the better from the AJAX technology.

I am very nosy to know what the system offer and in part I am worry about the power of GOOGLE.

Mobile phones are the most important medium for the users and teenagers love them.
The new generations are also offish from the old model as IBM, Microsoft.. and the new open source culture is a rich soil where grow the new grass.

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Spider web strategy

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

Assumption
Just for case I thought that 1 + 1 is equal to 2
I shared my opinion in the net.
But Now I am more sure
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You can have happy users when the expectation are low and you have an high quality product. (software+design).

If the expectation are high and the product is ALWAYS a good quality product you will have devoted users.

See the slides....

If what I said is true, then:

Brilliant web services +
a good operative system +
a new platform +
price reduction of the software to be more precise all free =

the bornt of the new software monopolist ?

Ladies and Gentleman
Google.

See this article to know more.

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Who is evil?

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:19:00 +0000

Look even the colours are the same...
What I think on this topics I wrote here... Anyway I think that today the scenario is different from some years ago.
Microsoft organization is slow and heavy and I think it is not a problem for monopoly.
Google, instead, is the information holder, and could be sun or rain for advertiser and other net professional.

There is also another think that has upseted me and other Italian professional.
Google has not paid tax in Italy for 50 million of euro and any newspaper has reported this news except “Il Giornale”as Luca Lani has said in his blog.

I mean it is not just because Google dosn’t pay tax but because he has the don’t be evil slogan.

Sound a little bit doubled-faced

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Furniture exhibition 2008

noreply@blogger.com (jwc) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:21:00 +0000

I tried to search with GOOGLE blog search "mobile" + "design" I thought to find someone to read but unfortunately there were 54000 results.

I repeated my search with only Italian language. Google gave me 5000 results but most of the result were inherent to "furniture" (in Italian "mobile").

Unfortunately that shows that our country is overdue on new media technologies.

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