A frog's overview

A frog's overview http://jpfendrich.posterous.com Subscribe, down in the right frame! posterous.com Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:40:00 -0700 Teleport your objects! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/apa_4VTc9PU/teleport-your-objects-and-design-protection http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/teleport-your-objects-and-design-protection <p> <p style="text-align: center;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="3d_print" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-08-22/rCAAHeJqtsdgropmwagFImwEAkGnFlecbIyiulCxFcAExFdlkBgscGikfbom/3d_print.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /> </div> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/creative_tools/" title="@ Flickr">Creative Tools</a> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, almost anyway. With 3D print we are almost there.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I came across this video on youtube, I realized that at least we can send <em>copies </em>of 3D objects over the net. Ki</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nd of like sending copies of music and other files. Just the same problem with copyright arises here but now with 3D objects and design protection. Right now there are a limited variety of materials that can be printed but what if the original is printed in this material? There will be more about this in a few years. Mark my words!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">My view of 3D printing so far has been centered on new types of production. For instance spare parts can be produced cheaply by small businesses and perhaps even from home. The video below shows that we now also can scan 3D objects, and then print out an exact copy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Such a printer has to be useful even when we build houses. Lots of small items can be printed on site.</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Make this printer big enough and we can also print complete buildings!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course there are loads of applications that we may not think of right away. For instance can the printer replicate itself?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZboxMsSz5Aw" frameborder="0" height="345" width="560"></iframe></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; background-color: #fefefe;"><strong class="username" style="font-style: normal; display: block; color: #222222; margin-top: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px; background-color: #ffffff;">Another example of the development of 3D print is <a href="http://www.endlessforms.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #d81921; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">EndlessForms</a>, a website that lets users create sculptures virtually and render them in physical form.</span></strong></span></span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/teleport-your-objects-and-design-protection">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/teleport-your-objects-and-design-protection#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/apa_4VTc9PU" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/teleport-your-objects-and-design-protection Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:09:00 -0800 AI is back in town http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/2qTPcvNS9PQ/ai-is-back-in-town http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/ai-is-back-in-town <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-25/rmDuhddIjEibwtydqcibtIuzFtpisyyJdJbcIHJJICzzEiutFatFFndqGpHu/Artificial.intelligence.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Artificial" height="654" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2011-02-25/rmDuhddIjEibwtydqcibtIuzFtpisyyJdJbcIHJJICzzEiutFatFFndqGpHu/Artificial.intelligence.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> In the end of the 80's I was heading a group at Volvo Data that worked with AI (Artificial Intelligence). We had high expectations of what could be done with AI at that time. Mainly we worked with expert systems. Trying to capture the knowledge from experts within a certain area and then organize it so it can be reused. There were also some quite new techniques such as Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms just to mention a few. I think we achieved some progress but the impact on the business was much smaller than we had hoped for. Most companies lost interest in AI but scientists and researches continued to explore this complicated and interesting area. AI techniques are used in search engines, automatic translation and in many other types software but we usually don't call it AI anymore. In a way these skills are too limited to be called AI. Ai aimed for intelligence that was similar to or even beated human capacity.</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Signs of a new dawn for AI</strong></span> </p> <p>Now, 20 years later, we can see signs of a new level of AI due to both much more computer power and better software. One very interesting example is <strong><em><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/">Watson</a>, </em></strong>IBM's system that can compete with the best humans in Jeaopardy. Watson listen to the category and the clue, translates it to text and a search expression, search the huge database, rates all the different hits, selects the most promising one and finally answer with a question (that the rules of Jeaopardy states). </p> <p>Think about it! This is not an easy task for a computer system and Watson actually beats strong humans these days. IBM are already heading more serious tasks with Watson. One is within health care. Listening to the patients symptoms and suggest a diagnosis is not so very far from the Jeopardy game. When I think about I would rely more on a diagnosis where the doxtor first took advice from Watson than the doctor only. Medicine is an area that develops very fast and no human can keep up with all the new knowledge that is flowing in. There are many other areas of course where such computer systems can be very useful   </p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Is this Singularity?</strong></span></p> <p> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity">Singularity </a>point is when computers have the same or better reasoning capacity as humans. What this Sinularity point really means to the human race and what the consequenses are is very hard to imagine. Watson is not even close yet. Singularity will of course not suddenly be here from nowhere. Computers will gradually come closer and closer to human reasoning level. The Watson version is now 2011. Wait until next verison and next version after that and so on. Watson will just get better and better. It is one step of many on the way to Singularity. </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/ai-is-back-in-town">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/ai-is-back-in-town#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/2qTPcvNS9PQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/ai-is-back-in-town Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:25:00 -0700 Password, passwords, passwords... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/AC7DiWDSuak/password-passwords-passwords http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/password-passwords-passwords <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-09-19/rljiJuBlnqGIIJICDCeuyEEnkICickeGFoskjgDFvFzalIiffrruhdytFmme/password.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Password" height="334" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-09-19/rljiJuBlnqGIIJICDCeuyEEnkICickeGFoskjgDFvFzalIiffrruhdytFmme/password.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p>it never ends does it? The number of sites that needs userid and password . The most safe way is to have complex passwords that are different for each site. In order to remember all these passwords it is tempting to write them down somewhere and that is NOT safe...</p> <p>I recently found <a href="http://lastpass.com/">LastPass.com</a> that really helps. Just let me first tell my password history in short..</p> <p>I used to have <a href="http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/">Password Safe</a> to keep my passwords in a safe place. It is not so bad really but I use 3 computers with a local copy of the password files and had to maintain them all. These days that little problem can be solved by putting the password file in <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing">Dropbox</a>!</p> <p>I also prefered to build up my passwords from a base word and then combine with the 2nd and 4th position in the the site name. For instance, let's say that my base word is 24Avenue* and I need a password for gmail. Position 2 and 4 in gmail is 'm' and 'i'. I put 'm' and 'i' as the first and last character in the new password. So I create the password m24Avenue*i. This makes it easy to remember any password at any site. a24Avenue*o for Yahoo, r24Avenue*p for Dropbox and so on. I found that more convenient than having Password Safe to generate a random password.</p> <p>LastPass and Password Safe have similar functionality but I found LastPass a bit more useful for me. It saves the passwords in the cloud so I can reach from any browser nad any computer at any place. One thing is that it is completely integrated with my browser as an extension and if you are willing to pay a few dollars there is an App for iPhone, Android and other smartphones. LastPass automatically fill in the password and ask me to save new passwords. The only password I need to remember is the password that open up LastPass. I think I will continue to create my passwords in the way I described above. Even if all my passwords disappear in the cloud I have a chance to remember them!</p> <p>Can we really trust that LastPass will not check our passwords? I don't know. I think the same question is relevant for all cloud services. Can we trust that Dropbox will not look into our files or Google in our documents?</p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/password-passwords-passwords">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/password-passwords-passwords#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/AC7DiWDSuak" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/password-passwords-passwords Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:21:00 -0700 Finally a search engine that beats Google? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/KibNiiw6KDw/finally-a-search-engine-that-beats-google http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/finally-a-search-engine-that-beats-google <p> <p><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/"><img src="http://duckduckgo.com/nduck.v104.png" border="0" alt="Search Engine Duck Duck Go" style="margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px;" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/"></a>I have been comparing Google search with <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo</a>, a new search engine (for me).</p> <p>I must say that <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo </a>gives a much more appealing result page than Google does.<br />It is clear and simple and I have so far received better results with <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo</a>.</p> <p><span class="long_text"><span style="background-color: #fff;">Perhaps Google has more in its databases. </span><span style="background-color: #fff;">I do not know but the actual presentation of the results are better in <a href="http://duckduckgo.com/">DuckDuckGo</a>.</span></span></p> <p><span class="long_text"><span style="background-color: #fff;">Try it out and tell me your opinion!</span></span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/finally-a-search-engine-that-beats-google">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/finally-a-search-engine-that-beats-google#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/KibNiiw6KDw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/finally-a-search-engine-that-beats-google Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:30:00 -0700 Why Google Wave didn't succeed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/ickBENTfv9s/why-google-wave-didnt-succeed http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-google-wave-didnt-succeed <p> <div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Google_wave" height="163" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-08-08/toFbcEhdbAyGdcnEzgJlntdictAGDgGtbcICvCbCwgqgyCmdFuqhCvgiDEfo/google_Wave.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="240" /> </div> Google has announced that they will stop the development of the Google wave. </span></span><span><span style="font-size: small;">The reason is said to be that they have too few users.</span></span></div> <p><span><span style="font-size: small;">As I see it, there are a few simple reasons that users refrain:<br /></span></span></p> <ol> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The user interface is lousy.</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The lack of integration with the functions that Wave was supposed to replace. That is email and chat.</span></li> <li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-size: small;">One must be registered and log in to yet another environment and the one you interact with must also be registered.</span></li> </ol> <p><span><span style="font-size: small;">Instead, they should integrate Wave in Gmail. </span></span><span><span style="font-size: small;">Eg. </span></span><span><span style="font-size: small;">when you mark a thread as "Wave" it will enable that the participants in the conversation to see it in the "Wave way". If your partners email system doesn't have this function, it will remain an ordinary email conversation as usual. </span></span></p> <p> </p> <div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span> <div style="line-height: 22px;">As you know, Google uses Gmail as the email system and Google Talk as the chat system. Gmail and Google Talk are partially integrated with each other already. By using the Wave functions in email conversation, as mentioned above, then a separate Google Talk is not needed anymore. One thing is that the threads of a chat conversations can be long and unstructured. I<span style="line-height: 24px;">f you mix the instant messaging conversation with the email conversation, the thread can be hard to follow. One solution could be to have the possibility to mark a group of messages as one unit in the thread with</span> the ability to break it down if necessary. This is a typical interface problem that certainly can be solved in many ways. </div> <div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">I am sure that in future we will see Wave functionality, implemented in one form or another.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture by </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sooey/" target="_blank" style="color: #074d8f;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">junojp</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div> </div> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-google-wave-didnt-succeed">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-google-wave-didnt-succeed#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/ickBENTfv9s" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-google-wave-didnt-succeed Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:39:00 -0700 Boring standards http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/QvOEyQUVCvw/boring-standards http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/boring-standards <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Passport" height="200" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-07-26/ctDsGCCdmtrahidzqhABmnehEcBzxzrkkuenlumsayCjrHoFmcvBpHJgyjlD/passport.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="200" /> </div> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(photo b</span>y <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikkoskinen/" title="Link to IK's World Trip's photostream" rel="dc:creator cc:attributionURL">IK's World Trip</a></span>) </p> <p>Sitting on an airport thinking about nothing and everything, I got in the complaining mode!</p> <p>Why is it more complicated now to do easy things than before? Shouldn't it be more easy and faster these days?</p> <p>Flight companies, car rental companies and others doesn't have the same rules and routines and to check in doesn't mean the same thing. Instead of reading all the rules for checking in and what codes or cards I have to have handy, I use to put all the documents to Dropbox. In order to reach Dropbox I need a smartphone or a laptop or whatever needed to get out on the net.</p> <p>If we had some common standards about how to identify ourself and show our codes we would only need our credit card or why not our "mobile wallet". Any Mobile Wallets are not around in Europe at this time but it will for sure, within maybe 5 years. The lack of standards confuses us all. Not to mention different charging cables...</p> <p>The thing is that I can't be sure of having Internet connection at the time that I need access to the document so I print some important part of it... Stupid? Yes probably...</p> <p>We still live in between the old document world, where a signature is the standard, and the new world where digital signatures are more valid. We need standards! How to identify ourself in order to login or to get our tickets or whatever.</p> <p>Standards is boring (for me) but it is needed in the same way that we need to brush our teeth regularly. Just do it!</p> <p>BTW, it is recommended to bring a copy of your passport and similar documents when you are abroad. Scan it and put in Dropbox!<br />If you want a free Dropbox account with 2 Gb space, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0MDc5NTQ5"><strong>click here</strong>,</a> and you will at the same time give me another 256 Mb!</p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing">More about Dropbox.</a> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/boring-standards">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/boring-standards#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/QvOEyQUVCvw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/boring-standards Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:52:00 -0700 Predicting the future http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/ciJf8Rm8H9A/predicting-the-future-19 http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/predicting-the-future-19 <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Future" height="240" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-06-27/fDdAfDEBxlpvdEmcwhsvcdzIBwiqbgtfvDEakydbGbuAwyEGinjpBlJsqncl/future.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="226" /> </div> Humans have always wanted to predict the future.</p> <p>The internet introduced "wisdom of the crowd". Under certain conditions the crowd is more correct in estimating and predicting things.</p> <p>So what is more natural to use social media such as blogs and Twitter for predictions!</p> <p><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627655.800-blogs-and-tweets-could-predict-the-future.html?full=true">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627655.800-blogs-and-tweets-could-predict-the-future.html?full=true</a></p> <p>Here is a site that is actually trying to do exactly this:</p> <p><a href="https://www.recordedfuture.com/how-it-works.html">https://www.recordedfuture.com/how-it-works.html</a></p> <p>Some problems might arise here. One of the conditions for "wisdom of the crowd" is that i<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; font-size: small;">ndividuals shouldn't affect each other so much that the result is changed significantly. Blogs and tweets are constantly referring to other blogs and tweets so they are really affecting each other.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> So can we really rely on these results? Hard to predict, the future will tell...</span></p> <p> </p> <p>Finally, we have the well known contradiction of predicting the future and being able to change our destiny. If I can predict for instance my own death in a car accident I will not go by car that day. My prediction would be wrong.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/predicting-the-future-19">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/predicting-the-future-19#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/ciJf8Rm8H9A" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/predicting-the-future-19 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:09:00 -0700 Business value of a smiley http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/GhPJYk6MHqc/business-value-of-a-smiley http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/business-value-of-a-smiley <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Smiley" height="333" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-06-15/xnznFGJizIAkxjwmssbAlEFeaFBsndIprdJcgGrGofezwfGsuHfaHamvaxhk/smiley.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /> </div> Everyone who have used business application in enterprises knows how terrible the user interface can be. They often miss not just the design of the page itself but also the navigation and interaction with the user. In short extremely boring! Many including me have been looking at how the game approach could make applications better. The game industry knows everything about "cliff hangers" and how to give feedback to keep the players interest. Business application developers have much to learn from the game industry when it comes to user experience. There is a business value of a fun to use application!</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The App era</strong></span></p> <p>The last 2 years we have seen a completely new type of applications, the apps. I will call applications for both the iPhone, iPod, Android and all the others for apps here. One click to download and install. No manuals needed very easy to use but still sometimes with a huge lot of functionality. Many applications are transformed from pc to iPhone (or Android). Very often is the user interface for an application on an iPhone better than the corresponding interface on the pc! This is really interesting. The iPhone/iPod screen is smaller, we have no mouse and the keyboard is not very user friendly. Still the user interface is better.</p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>How come?</strong></span></p> <p>The pc screen is often overloaded with information, hard to get an overview of and full of completely unnecessary functions (in 90% of the time), It is so easy to put some extra info on the pc and make some extra dialog steps and not really think from a user perspective. This is an old and well known problem. How come it can be so much better on a smaller screen? The small format of the iPhone makes the developer to think the dialog over again. Smart solutions are needed to keep it simple. It is obvious that it MUST be simple.</p> <p>The App development will probably change how business applications will look in the future. Both the easy type of interface but also the agile methods used for app development. Apps are short time applications. Short development time and with a short life span. Each app will give solutions to limited parts of a business application and maybe to a limited set of users. Specialized for certain tasks. As opposed to global applications with full functionality for all cases. Applications that take so long time to prospect, develop and implement that they are outdated when they are set to production.</p> <p>The demand is of course that we have clear interfaces (API's) to the business applications and databases that apps can use. SOA in a new light.</p> <p>Will we finally see business applications that are not only functional but also fun to use?</p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/business-value-of-a-smiley">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/business-value-of-a-smiley#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/GhPJYk6MHqc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/business-value-of-a-smiley Mon, 03 May 2010 12:00:00 -0700 Nokia, you are running in the wrong direction http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/WgG7Vx2PwPE/nokia-you-run-in-the-wrong-direcion http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/nokia-you-run-in-the-wrong-direcion <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Nokia_e75" height="333" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-05-04/hhgfmEaHnerxfoydtahpiHhJqajHFcChGtfGwqjAgCippelxcgyHDrGFaejJ/Nokia_E75.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /> </div> <span style="color: #666666; font-size: xx-small;">Picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/titanas/" title="Link to Titanas' photostream" rel="dc:creator cc:attributionURL" style="color: #0063dc; text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Titanas</strong></a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have used Nokia for several years now and my latest was Nokia E75 <span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">a highly competent mobile.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">By pure coincidence I happen to have an iPhone these days. The i<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Phone is not so good for writing with the virtual keyboard as Nokia E75's real keyboard but navigation and reading is far better in the iPhone.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Nokia is still at the top of the telephone sales statistics. Yes telephones not smartphones. The main reason is Nokias big advantage in countries that are not so wealthy. In Asia, in Africa and South America. Recently Nokia released their touch screen similar to the iPhone, 3 years after Apple. So what is Nokias strategy now? They can not expect to have the same lead with smartphones. Will the current Nokia owners upgrade to a Nokia touch? Don't count on that! When all these people are upgrading to touch screens they will probably choose Android. </span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nokia you chose the wrong path! You developed your own Operating System and your own App Store for touch screens. As Microsoft you use your own libraries with its own standards. This seems to be a very bad idea.</span></span></p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Iphone" height="480" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-05-04/IAcDaurGauyImkiylpjdmgahAgwqreyDBeGrrlIFBriBtuFjHwqqvvxfmhAd/iPhone.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="320" /> </div> </p> <div><span style="font-size: medium;">Apple started the Apps revolution. The Android gang (HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Toshiba, Sony Ericsson and many others) went for the same standard and same App Store in order to compete with Apple.</span></div> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nokia, you are the best selling cellphone but not the best selling smartphone. Don't get isolated with your own App Store. You are in the lead but that can change very fast!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nokia follow my advice, join the Android group and fight Apple!</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Hard competition is good for us consumers but it is also good for the companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: medium;">BTW, why not stop talking about smartphones. It is less and less phone and more a mobile pc. The phone is just one of many functions. I prefer to say mobile.</span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/nokia-you-run-in-the-wrong-direcion">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/nokia-you-run-in-the-wrong-direcion#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/WgG7Vx2PwPE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/nokia-you-run-in-the-wrong-direcion Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:16:00 -0700 Why iPad will NOT be a new iPhone story http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/J86MHl_0cnw/why-ipad-will-not-be-a-new-iphone-story http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-ipad-will-not-be-a-new-iphone-story <p> <p>When iPhone and iPod came along they had a touch screen Graphical User Interface that was so much ahead of the others that the competitors didn't even understand the threat. Now are they slowly gaining and with Android there are many more options than just Apple.</p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="3900417672_923d37f857" height="281" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2010-04-18/eDqyAbHyHnqgrgciwyJqxdgctxCEgqbjegfpxbsHupBjitzErmxjgdemCznE/3900417672_923d37f857.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /> </div> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/korosirego/">Rego</a></span></p> <p>This time when the iPad was released as a very big iPod, the disance to their competitors is not at all that big. There are numerous Tablet PC's aht will be released this year with at least the same good functionality and a similar Touch screen Interface. The iPad will not take the lead in the same way as iPhones and iPods did. It will more be a matter of taste. Do I like the App's that Apple almost guarantee to have no spam or virus or will I like the Android way of open App's?</p> <p>Right now there is a huge lead of App's from Apple but it will maybe change in the future. This graph from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/chart-of-the-day">Chart of the day</a></p> <p><img src="http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4ba3d1ec7f8b9aaa5db60800/chart-of-the-day-apps-at-apple-palm-android-rim.gif" alt="chart of the day, apps at apple, palm, android, RIM" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Look at the following graph from <a href="http://metrics.admob.com/">AdMob</a>, indicating that Android App's are slowly gaining.</p> <p><img src="http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/publisher-survey.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>There will be a battle between the iPad and other touch screen tablet PC's or even a combination of touch screen and keyboard. Something that I would like... </p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-ipad-will-not-be-a-new-iphone-story">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-ipad-will-not-be-a-new-iphone-story#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/J86MHl_0cnw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/why-ipad-will-not-be-a-new-iphone-story Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:40:00 -0700 Who needs an operating system? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/G4fq7LJV9_g/who-needs-an-operating-system http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-needs-an-operating-system <p> <div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #222222; background-color: #ffffff;"> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><img src="http://volvoitblog.com/innovation/wp-content/uploads/cloud.JPG" height="225" align="left" alt="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kky/" style="cursor: default;" width="300" /></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial;">I use a local search for my desk and Google on the net. Well, with Google desk I can use the same search engine. I use Office programs on my local data and <a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs</a> (or even better in my opinion is <a href="http://www.zoho.com/">Zoho.com</a>) for the same type of documents on the net or in the "cloud" that it is called these days. An OS (operating system) is very local and only helps me with things local on he computer. The modern web browser is very capable and can work both locally and on the net. I</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial;"> would prefer that the browser is my interface both locally and on the net. If I have a folder it is not so important if it is local or on a server or both. I just want to find it easy with the same browser and the same search engine. Of course I have to set up if I want to force it to be local or in the "cloud" but after that I don't care. I just want to use my data. There may be many reasons for why I would like to have it here or there. Today I have to remember if the document is on Google Docs, or </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial;">Zoho.com</span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial;"> or stored locally and use the web browser on the net and Office programs for local office data and so </span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial;">on. Let's use the same browser and the same search engine even locally. In the next step let the web browser organize and start applications as well and understand file types etc. The the applications can of course also be located locally or in the "cloud". </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Just one step further, let the CPU be local, in the "cloud" or both. Now we are really talking cloud computing!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 10px;">(picture from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kky">akakumo</a></span>)</p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-needs-an-operating-system">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-needs-an-operating-system#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/G4fq7LJV9_g" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-needs-an-operating-system Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:43:00 -0700 How to get rid of spam - once and for all http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/0p11VIhE7OY/how-to-get-rid-of-spam-once-and-for-all http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-to-get-rid-of-spam-once-and-for-all <p> <div style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://images.spamgourmet.com/stuff/gourmet.png" alt="disposable email spam gourmet" /></div> <div>Are you tired and bored or even upset of all the spam in your inbox?</div> <div>There are many good spam filters these days but you can never be sure if they will tag some email is as spam even if it is ok. You need to take a look in the spam folder now and then to be really sure...</div> <div>I have almost no spam at all. I mean I don't even need a spam filter. <strong>Almost no spam at all!</strong></div> <div>How come? Well, the number one method is to never, means NEVER, give out your email address to any one, except the one that you can trust 100%</div> <div>But still you want to register on sites and some of them are not trustworthy...</div> <div>Here are 4 <strong>free</strong> methods to be <strong>completely free from spam</strong> and still give away your email address to any site.</div> <div><ol> <li>Get yourself <strong>a special spam email addres</strong>s. It can be any free email service such as Google email, Yahoo email or anything else. Whenever you give away your email address to some site or unknown person you will use this special spam address. This works like a charm but it has one big problem. This email address will be flooded by spam and maybe you want to keep in touch with some of these contacts. Then you won nothing. Finally you can never find out if some of them gave away your email address to a spammer.<p /></li> <li><a href="http://mailinator.com">mailinator.com</a> It is an excellent service if you just want 1 or a few emails from your contact. For instance you just want a code or or confirmation email once. Just give the address <a href="mailto:x@malinator.com">x@malinator.com</a> (where x is any text you want). No need to register this address, just use it. There are some pros and cons with this. First anyone can read the emails. The trick is to use a strange name with little risk that someone will find. If you use <a href="mailto:peter@mailinator.com">peter@mailinator.com</a> you can be sure that hundreds or thousands of people will read the emails but <a href="mailto:peter1043493470@malinator.com">peter1043493470@malinator.com</a> will probably not be read. The email will disappear after a few hours. Any given mailbox will only hold 10 emails at once. All attachments are stripped out.<p /> </li> <li><a href="http://www.whspr.me">www.whspr.me</a> is a similar service. You register at their site and you can set how long that email address will live. It is a bit more unconvenient to register a new email address each time. It has also similar problems as mentioned in the first bullet.<p /> </li> <li><strong><span style="font-size: large;">This is my real favorite</span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;">: <a href="http://spamgourmet.com">spamgourmet.com</a></span> have it all. First of all you register once to get your own private email address. You also link it to your normal email address so you will see the emails in your normal inbox. For instance you register the address <a href="mailto:obama@xoxy.com">obama@xoxy.com</a> (there are some predefined domain names to use, such as <a href="http://spamgourmet.com">spamgourmet.com</a>, <a href="http://xoxy.com">xoxy.com</a>, <a href="http://antichef.com">antichef.com</a> etc) but you will never use this address. Instead you will prefix text in front of it to control and build up a unique email address each time. You will get an excellent way to track what they did with your address. For instance if you register and give away your email address at the site <a href="http://strange.com">strange.com</a> you can use <strong>strange.5</strong>.<a href="mailto:obama@xoxy.com">obama@xoxy.com</a> This means that you only want 5 emails from <a href="mailto:strange.5.obama@xoxy.com">strange.5.obama@xoxy.com</a>. The emails will come to your normal email inbox, remember? After 5 emails you will never see anything else coming. You can use any number up to 20. Furthermore, if you will get emails from some other place to <strong>strange.5</strong>.<a href="mailto:obama@xoxy.com">obama@xoxy.com</a>, you will know that <a href="http://strange.com">strange.com</a> revealed your email address to someone else because they are the only one who ever got the address. You know who to trust. There are many other functions. You can reset the counter if you want more emails, you can set a from-address that will not be counted and so on. Read the <a href="http://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl?printpage=faq.html">FAQ</a> for yourself!  I have used this service for several years now and never had any problems with them, except from one thing. Sometimes it can take a long time before the email reaches your inbox. That can be annoying if you are waiting for a confirmation email.  </li> </ol></div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-to-get-rid-of-spam-once-and-for-all">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-to-get-rid-of-spam-once-and-for-all#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/0p11VIhE7OY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-to-get-rid-of-spam-once-and-for-all Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:57:00 -0800 Dropbox - the best file sharing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/FsyxrlZcbBs/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing <p> <p>I have used many different file sharing services, except including up a ftp server.</p> <div> <br /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/3206015343_cb7f5ac853.jpg" alt="History of the Internet on Vimeo by alicereneztay." /><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicereneztay/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alicereneztay/</a></span> </div> <div> </div> <div>File sharing can be so many different things.<br />Sometimes it is a specialized type of service that I want with sharing options. For instance the Picasa web or <a href="http://slideshare.com" target="_blank">slideshare.com</a> and why not YouTube and Google Docs. There are also several file hosting sites out there. For instance ADrive.com and Ziddu.com where we can upload and share files. They will give you full control of your files and who you want to share it with. <p /> Very often I prefer an even simpler way to share files. Mostly I just want to share a document or some other type of file with a few friends and I have no interest in saving the file for long time. It can be that we are working together on some project or maybe I just want to send a file to a friend.<br /> The first general file sharing service of this type I used is <a href="http://drop.io" target="_blank">http://drop.io</a>, very useful, free and easy to use. After upload you will get an URL to the file. It is mainly for sharing files instantly and temporarily. You can password protect your files and set your own expiration dates. Nowadays there is another very similar service with even higher file size limits, <a href="http://www.filedropper.com" target="_blank">http://www.filedropper.com</a> that will let you share files up to 5GB for free.<p /> <div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0MDc5NTQ5" title="register free 2 GB"><img src="https://www.dropbox.com/static/9790/images/logo.png" alt="Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy." /></a></div> </div> <div>Now my real favorite for file sharing is dropbox.com!<br /> After downloading the client program you will have a folder where you put your files that you want to share between your own computers or with friends. Just move the file to the Dropbox folder or a subfolder and it is shared in the way you want. It just can't be more easy than this. Dropbox gives you 2GB for free. You can get up to 3GB for free by inviting friends (250 MB per friend). If you pay for it you will get 50 or 100 GB. Al settings are done in the Dropbox.com web site and here all uploads and downloads can be done as well. With my 3 PC's I can share files so easy. No more USB...<br /> Dropbox is also an App for iPhone and iPod.<br /><span><span title="Jag hörde via ryktesvägen att Dropbox inte har några servrar själva." style="background-color: #ffffff;">I heard through the grapevine that Dropbox has no servers themselves. </span><span title="De köper lagring från Amazon." style="background-color: #ffffff;">They buy storage from Amazon. <br /> </span><span title="Genialt!" style="background-color: #ffffff;">Brilliant!</span></span> </div> <div><span><span title="Genialt!" style="background-color: #ffffff;">You can register 2GB free <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE0MDc5NTQ5">here</a>.</span></span></div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/FsyxrlZcbBs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/dropbox-the-best-file-sharing Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:52:00 -0800 Who will challenge Apple? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/Mwqv5uilQgw/who-will-challenge-apple-0 http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-apple-0 <p> <p> </p> <div> <p><span>We all know that Apple's computers have a given sector in the luxury-class PC.<br /> They are not the greatest in sales volumes but in terms of design and quality they are among the foremost.<br /> A similar development, we have seen in the case of smartphones. Their iPhone is 1-2 years ahead of all competitors in terms of design and usability. They are not the most technological advanced. They sacrificed for instance parallel background processes in favor of an easy to use interface. An interface that is often better (easier to use) than the corresponding web page for the PC. </span></p> <p><span>iPhone sales volumes have constantly been growing and the App store is a success: <br />Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009</span></p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/RyZskZh8jhgspZPahntLJVIbD8NPRTgc2PikSGLuFVq75w08ozPLiJU1I6ub/image003.png"><img alt="Image003" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/55IuqThliLAXtDsFwajJxpsCUM5yPKvyQpibBgQtBqmLNrQr6xMUP2jiqeen/image003.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> I hope that the iPhone will be challenged by Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and the others. <p><span> Tough competition is good for not only us users but also for the companies themselves!</span></p> <p><span>How about Google’s Android and Nexus One?<br /> See my previous blog post <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-google">Who will challenge Google</a>?<br /> Google is fighting to get into the Mobile Internet market. They fully understand that this market will grow substantially and can even be a threat to their dominance. I can almost hear them talk to me: “Take care of the Mobile Internet in order to guide them to our search”<p /> Here is an interesting graph showing how Android snatched market shares from the iPhone during Dec 2009. This was before the Nexus One launch and I am eagerly waiting for how the numbers will change in the future. Don’t forget Apple’s new tablet PC that soon is here. Another mobile Internet Device that can be tough for the competitors.<br /></span></p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/32lYb0jKht8xfJnywFrWbtmb2dQp6CfcxBhsTe0umgnwL6P3bwXm6APCBzIU/image002.png"><img alt="Image002" height="375" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/rrZqk8YmKs43kF1mFdFuaMJOkb2PBWfkNeDOt7RmIgIc5fkz2QUjqlPgmHac/image002.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p> </p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-apple-0">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-apple-0#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/Mwqv5uilQgw" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-apple-0 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:34:00 -0800 Will Social Media make you live longer? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/M9rQeAaypvQ/how-long-can-you-live http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-long-can-you-live <p> <p>I am sitting here in Bangkok in the Baiyoke Sky Hotel at the 59th floor and writing on my book. (If you ever been in Bangkok there is a big chance that you have been having a dinner at the 78th floor where one of the restaurants are)</p> <p>Looking out through the window gives another perspective than I am used to at home. Down there I can see small cars running around on small streets and all this makes me think about life! <p /> I found this TED video that likely will not be popular amongst the transhumanists after his claim that there too many things that can go wrong. We have 35 Trillion cells in our body.</p> <p>In this video Dan Buettner points out that small easy things will make us live longer and with less health issues and better life quality. In our hearts I have a feeling that we all know this but reject it in our modern high tech lifes. It is just to simple...</p> <p>One of the things is to have a strong social identity within a small group of very close friends. People that support each other and share good and bad things together. These days when Social Media and Social Networks are growing the question is if they will help us to live longer.</p> <p>In my view we are talking about completely different kind of social networks. The Internet social networks are based on the long tail phenomena. We expect to get more out from it than we put in. We make an investment of our time and knowledge and hope to get something better in return.</p> <p>The kind of social networks that are mentioned in this video are not at all of the same kind. A small number of close friends in a group that are doing what is needed  when needed for each other without thinking about what the return is for themselves.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100.html</a></p> <p>So will Social Media make us live longer? I doubt it but don't misunderstand me. I am a big fan of Social Medias!</p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-long-can-you-live">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-long-can-you-live#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/M9rQeAaypvQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/how-long-can-you-live Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:58:00 -0800 Voddler will (and must) get better http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/OBYgvzHzu1s/voddler-will-and-must-get-better http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/voddler-will-and-must-get-better <p> <p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/ld1zpG4Er0p55c52nJ3q696O4n33c5VNSza6QIDsoVFnfDvBukSn2Lbkh16X/Screenshot.png.scaled.1000.jpg"><img alt="Screenshot" height="313" src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/jpfendrich/5zwPfKzjAuNGnL43y7yNOtVMeljFK2ZH8sHFoOlYOGnalKJek4yN928eHbrA/Screenshot.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </p> <p> </p> <p>I have used Voddler beta for a few weeks now and there are many things still missing before it is ready for a wider public.<br />For you who are not familiar with <a href="http://voddler.com/" target="_blank">Voddler</a>, it is a site for streaming movies. Most of them for free, financed by advertisement.<p /> First of all,it is still a beta!<p />Let us start with a little comparison with Spotify. There is a fundamental difference between music and movies. Music can be listened to anytime anywhere and if you like music you will always find some tunes that fits your state of mind. Movies are completely opposite. They occupy your time completely. You must sit down and focus on the movie. You can not look at a movie while you are driving your car or doing your work. That makes the usage of Spotify quite different from Voddler.<p /> <strong>What Voddler miss so far</strong><p /><strong>The content:</strong> They have about 100 movies right now and that is of course more than I can use for a long time. Maybe there are 25 movies that I want to see.<br />I am not so worried as others about this. New movies are continously added and now they have an agreement with Sony and there will surely be enough movies for most of us to look at.<p /> <strong>The Interface:</strong> Is a complete mess. It is adapted to be used with your remote control for the TV but hey we are using the PC now. Arrow up, down, left and right, Enter and Esc are the only possible keys to use.<br /> They have copied the concept of the Video shop. With different shelfs for different genres and one shelf with new movies and so on.<br />You must look around with the Arrow keys until you find what you like. There is no search, no memory of what I have seen so far, no comment field and so on. Each movie have a rank that people can set after the movie. Why not use the IMDB site? A link would give all the information you need.<br />This interface must get better! <br /> <br /><strong>Social Networking: </strong>There is a complete lack of social networking from the voting of movies. No forum, no blog, no Twitter integration, no Facebook intergration etc. Yes, there is a homepage but it is not reached from the Voddler client.<p /> As far as I can understand they have been focused on 2 problems. 1)  the technical challenge to distribute streamed full length movies to a huge amount of viewers. 2) The business challenge of negotiating with Disney, Sony and other big Dragons. <br /> The interface and the social media aspect is not really covered yet. They probably don't have the right skill within these very important areas. It is still not to late and I hope and believe that they will find out ways to make it better. <p /> Because I like movies!</p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/voddler-will-and-must-get-better">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/voddler-will-and-must-get-better#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/OBYgvzHzu1s" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/voddler-will-and-must-get-better Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:18:00 -0800 Who will challenge Google? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/-Xfhmp87UMo/who-will-challenge-google http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-google <p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/robot-300x267.jpg" alt="" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;">Google has a good grip on most of the Internet. Right now they are using their dominant position to advance their positions further.</div> <div style="text-align: left;">Most of us still associates Google with search and it is in precisley that particular area, which they earn their money but it is their interest in all the other areas that we should be mindful of. Quite new areas for them such as VOIP, mobile telephony, Internet browser, OS etc. As a small parenthesis, they recently announced free navigation software and Augmented Reality software. They just crushes the companies that live on these software. Their advent into the mobile area will give an impression, and perhaps one day they will dominate the telephony just as they do with the Internet today.</div> <p /> </div> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Google's strategy</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.somethingcreativeinc.com/images/corporate_strategy.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;">Their strategy is clear. Namely to focus as much activity as possible to the lnternet. That is where they earn their money. Just one more example is how they intend to solve the equivalent of Apple's successful concept with Apps. For their Android, is of course the downloads directly from the Internet the answer. Searchable as everything else.</p> <p> </p> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">What we know in the Automotive Industry</span></strong></div> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://www.lifesip.com/images/competition-7.gif" alt="" /></p> <p> </p> <p>I must admit that most of what they developed, appeals to me and with no other account than my own cost, efficiency and usability, they are fantastic.</p> <p>But we are facing a fairly common problem, but now in an ever larger scale. Namely, that they sweep aside all competition.</p> <p>Within the Automotive business we are very aware of how tough competition makes us sharper, leaner, faster and better in all our processes. It would never happen without competeition.</p> <p>Google have become even more dominant than what Microsoft was in the past and what IBM was before them. IBM dominated the business side. There was no PC:s then. Microsoft took over and dominated the PC market totally on the consumer-side and eventually much of the business side. Google takes over not only the Internet but in many other adjacent areas.Still, there are dragons like Microsoft and Yahoo trying to challenge. But for how long?</p> <p>What kind of Google, we will see where all competition is gone? What are they doing with all the information they have on us? Will it only be used for targeted advertising? Could there be a hidden agenda? The questions are piling up ...</p> <p> </p> <p>Finally, who will challenge Google?</p> <p>Right now no one...</p> <p> </p> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-google">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-google#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/-Xfhmp87UMo" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/who-will-challenge-google Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:06:00 -0800 Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/esdLKssfEhc/top-futurist-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-techno http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/top-futurist-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-techno <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote> <p class="datestamp"><span class="datestamp_update">Sunday, December 13th 2009, 1:40 AM</span></p> <div class="art_img_lrg"><img src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/12/13/alg_oped_baby.jpg" alt="" /></div> <p /> </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation"> <p class="byline">Interesting reading about Ray Kurzweils view of the future 10 years ahead.<br />Ten years is not a very long time. As Mr Kurzweil points out, we will still have buses, subways and cars pretty much as before. The interesting thing is HOW they are operating.</p> <p class="byline">Another thing I was thinking about was the memory chip integrated with our clothes. Well, I am changing clothes everyday and don't want to synchronize content betwen my shirts! Maybe he was refering to something else...  :-)</p> <p class="byline"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/12/13/2009-12-13_top_futurist_ray_kurzweil_predicts_how_technology_will_change_humanity_by_2020.html">Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020</a>  via <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/index.html">nydailynews.com</a></p> </div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/top-futurist-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-techno">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/top-futurist-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-techno#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/esdLKssfEhc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/top-futurist-ray-kurzweil-predicts-how-techno Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:38:00 -0800 Exclusive: first Google Phone / Nexus One photos, Android 2.1 on-board -- Engadget http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/6hBhWG_TVLA/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-0 http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-0 <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"> <h4 class="post_title">A lot of buzz about this and you know what?<br />It looks just like a mobile phone...</h4> <p><img src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_icon_photo.gif" alt="" /></p> <div class="post_body"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-phone-nexus-one-exclusive-photos/2531511"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/12/nexus_main_2.jpg" border="1" alt="" /></a></div> </div> </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation"><span style="font-size: medium;">via </span><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/14/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-android-2-1-on/"><span style="font-size: medium;">engadget.com</span></a></div> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-0">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-0#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/6hBhWG_TVLA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/exclusive-first-google-phone-nexus-one-photos-0 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:46:00 -0800 What is Google Chrome OS? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~3/vnAXcmD2Rfc/what-is-google-chrome-os-55 http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/what-is-google-chrome-os-55 <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <object height="417" width="500"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QRO3gKj3qw&hl=en&fs=1" /> <param name="wmode" value="window" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QRO3gKj3qw&hl=en&fs=1" wmode="window" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="417" width="500"></embed> </object> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw&feature=player_embedded">youtube.com</a></div> <p>Google recently revealed the main ideas of the Google Chrome OS.</p> <p>I like the concept with storing all (that means ALL) the data in the cloud. The cloud = a server somewhere in the world. (hosted by Google of course :-) ).</p> <p><span class="short_text"><span title="Varför inte ta det ett steg längre?" style="background-color: #ffffff;">The trend is that all the applications will be in the cloud as well. In order to run applications and reach our data, we would need a device that can reach the Internet, it could be a PC, an iPhone, a Blackberry or whatever. With most of the CPU power in the cloud it would suddenly stop the hardware race for clients with faster and faster hardware and more and more harddisk. Everything is in the cloud! The hardware race is moved from the clients to the servers! </span></span></p> <p><span class="short_text"><span title="Varför inte ta det ett steg längre?" style="background-color: #ffffff;">To be realistic, we would probably want to have <em>some</em> data and applications locally and would probablay need <em>some</em> CPU and storage but it would anyway mitigate the harware race on our Internet devices. When I think about it, there is another hardware race going on about bigger, flatter and better screens. For instance 3D TV's are starting to show up. The Soccer World Chamionship will send some of the matches in 3D! E-Readers, flexible screens and so on is also here. Well, the hardware race is changed but not finished...</span></span></p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/what-is-google-chrome-os-55">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/what-is-google-chrome-os-55#comment">Leave a comment  »</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JpFendrichsPosterous/~4/vnAXcmD2Rfc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/305068/New_Image.JPG http://posterous.com/users/37qTcRmDOePL JP Fendrich jpfendrich JP Fendrich http://jpfendrich.posterous.com/what-is-google-chrome-os-55