OurielOhayonhttp://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/internet ★ iphone ★ jazz ★ movies ★ ideasenSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:09 PSTTypePad http://www.typepad.com/jazz,real,book,bossa,standards,piano,blues,keith,jarrett,bill,evans,improvisationMusicmyblog@ohayon.nameOuriel OhayonOuriel Ohayonnojazz,real,book,bossa,standards,piano,blues,keith,jarrett,bill,evans,improvisationJazz standards and songs played on the piano solo, duo and trio. Real Book and famous sonds revisited in personnal jazz way.Jazz standards and songs played on the piano solo, duo and trio. Real Book and famous sonds revisited in personnal jazz way.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights ReservedThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.The beauty of simplicityhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/Q293TPGzQQg/the-beauty-of-simplicity.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:09 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a6bf7943970b

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Going to give this tool a shot. hard to focus writing and thinking with all those streams and features around

]]>via www.ommwriter.com Going to give this tool a shot. hard to focus writing and thinking with all those streams and features aroundnovia www.ommwriter.com Going to give this tool a shot. hard to focus writing and thinking with all those streams and features aroundOuriel Ohayonvia www.ommwriter.com Going to give this tool a shot. hard to focus writing and thinking with all those streams and features aroundjazz,real,book,bossa,standards,piano,blues,keith,jarrett,bill,evans,improvisationhttp://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/the-beauty-of-simplicity.htmlhttp://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7670108&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Litl: gorgeous little laptop with great experiencehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/gduKvFefwL4/litl-gorgeous-little-laptop-with-great-experience.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:07:06 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e2012875b7b5c5970c

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pretty awesome. amazing how they managed to bring so much innovation in a field that seems saturated.

However my deepest belief is that we are just at the beginning. The human/computer interaction has been totally neglected for the past 10 years. We still use a keyboard and a mouse.

Apple has managed to shake the rules with the touch screen. But you can feel this is just a beginning

]]>via www.youtube.com pretty awesome. amazing how they managed to bring so much innovation in a field that seems saturated. However my deepest belief is that we are just at the beginning. The human/computer interaction has been totally neglected for the...novia www.youtube.com pretty awesome. amazing how they managed to bring so much innovation in a field that seems saturated. However my deepest belief is that we are just at the beginning. The human/computer interaction has been totally neglected for the...Ouriel Ohayonvia www.youtube.com pretty awesome. amazing how they managed to bring so much innovation in a field that seems saturated. However my deepest belief is that we are just at the beginning. The human/computer interaction has been totally neglected for the...jazz,real,book,bossa,standards,piano,blues,keith,jarrett,bill,evans,improvisationhttp://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/litl-gorgeous-little-laptop-with-great-experience.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/v/cR3eVvy9moE&fs=1ICQ to be sold by AOL? that might not be a bad thinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/7LZuu-jEuyU/icq-to-be-sold-by-aol-that-might-not-be-a-bad-thing.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:52 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a6b4d684970bI remember when i was at ICQ in 2004/2006 (a few years after the AOL acquisition), i was asking myself everyday the same question: What if ICQ was not part of AOL? would it perform better?

My feeling was always that a small company like ICQ with about 100 employees and thousands of miles away for the US HQ (AOL) with a product competing with the big brother (AIM) would be better as a stand alone and would move faster.

Today BoomTown is reporting that AOL may sell ICQ. If this happens that could be a good thing. ICQ is the #1 or 2 instant messengers in a few countries (like in germany i was in charge of) in Europe specially eastern Europe. With the right resources and autonomy it could innovate fast enough to build great local communities, which they have missed for the past 10 years. 

ICQ could have become Skype, ICQ could have become Facebook, ICQ could have become Twitter. But they stayed ICQ, a brand everyone remembers but very little in my generation are still using.

So let's see what happens. but i believe this could be a good news for the Israeli company.

]]>I remember when i was at ICQ in 2004/2006 (a few years after the AOL acquisition), i was asking myself everyday the same question: What if ICQ was not part of AOL? would it perform better? My feeling was always...http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/icq-to-be-sold-by-aol-that-might-not-be-a-bad-thing.htmlFree idea of the day: we need the Skype for slideshow presentationshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/Va1drunIRcg/free-idea-of-the-day-we-need-the-skype-for-slideshow-presentation.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:36:47 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a6b035bf970bWe all know the pain: you go to a meeting and want to connect your laptop to a projector for your show. it never works. period

Years of R&D and top techie advancements have not managed to solve the simple problem of getting a slide on a screen in 2 seconds. In years of watching thousands of presentations i have never seen a case this works spot on. There is always one problem: the screen resolution is not right, the image looks poor, the screen shows only part of your slide.....

The reason is that projector are dumb devices with very poor software and laptops are built with poor and complex set up to make things smooth. 

I believe there is a major opportunity for a software that will solve this pain. A software that will make any laptop 100% ready for any projector. And people will pay for it. 100%

We need an equivalent of Skype, which solved the pain of making a simple voice calls on the internet, but for slide presentations.

Let s call it Prezentify

My dream experience

  • You open your laptop
  • your launch this Prezentify
  • you plug your laptop to the projector
  • And it works, instantly.

No more need to choose the right screen resolution, plug, unplug, until it works, make your laptop restart, make your projector restart.

What would that software do?

  • it detects automatically you screen resolution/laptop settings
  • It detects the projector hardware connected to it and find the right settings to make it work
  • It resets your screen and color set automatically for optimal screening
  • it will reset it back when the presentation is done
  • It will allow you to show part of the things that are one your computer, but not everything (you don't want to share those email notifications, or skype messages)
  • it comes with a handy iPhone app so you can move the slide (keynote has an amazing iphone app for mac)

And of course this is not just an add on to slideshow softwares...Because you need to present more stuff than just slides.

Someone please make this

Oh yes and 1 more request to Microsoft/Mac. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Make that "Show as a slideshow" button ENORMOUS. People always spend seconds to look for it, because it is way to small

PS: plan B is to not use your computer but just put the file on a local connected computer. but then you can't use other resources from your computer (demo an app, settings you are used to for your browser,...). I don t like this option

]]>We all know the pain: you go to a meeting and want to connect your laptop to a projector for your show. it never works. period Years of R&D and top techie advancements have not managed to solve the simple...http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/free-idea-of-the-day-we-need-the-skype-for-slideshow-presentation.htmliPhone: Apple owns the billing, Google Advertisinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/KwJ55hQsruI/iphone-apple-owns-the-billing-google-advertising.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:39:58 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20128756ef190970cUnless you live in a cave, you have not missed that Google swallowed AdMob, the #1 mobile ad network which was particularly taking off since the inception of the iPhone (and the App Store). Now if you also following the news, you did not miss that Apple and Google play cat and mouse about who owns what on the iPhone. 

Well. This ad is not really for me

Apple from day one let the cat in by placing Google maps and Youtube as default installed apps. Google is following up with great apps of its own service. But sometimes it conflicts with Apple's own interest and their relation with mobile operators (eg: Google voice).

Now the war is moving to a new field with the acquisition of AdMob. Advertising. By owning iPhone advertising, Google, who's behind the best OS challenging the iPhone, is a tough trojan in the iPhone. They have a massive power, since they own the second most important revenue chain that feed the app developers, after Paid apps (owned by Apple). They also own key estates and very soon data intelligence about apps that will place them at the level of second brain on the iPhone ecosystem after Apple. They can also, although i doubt the do-no-evil company moves that way, push iPhone users to their own apps, or why not to other android-powered devices.

I really wonder how Apple feels about that. Advertising on the iPhone is going to become big. very big. They can't really do a thing about that, except abusing their position and blocking any app using admob codes. But that won't happen, users and the FCC look to close

What could be their next move knowing that Apple is a non-advertising-based company?

ps: Maybe they should not so worry at the end of the day, when you see the kind of advertising AdMob served me..(see above)

]]>Unless you live in a cave, you have not missed that Google swallowed AdMob, the #1 mobile ad network which was particularly taking off since the inception of the iPhone (and the App Store). Now if you also following the...http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/iphone-apple-owns-the-billing-google-advertising.htmlWhat a day for Google (and Accel)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/VW0PPwQ6rr4/what-a-day-for-google-and-accel.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:50:42 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20128756747e8970c
What a day for Google (and Accel), originally uploaded by ourielohayon.

Google buys. Big
Accel Ventures sell. Big (they sold Playfish to EA the same day)

]]>What a day for Google (and Accel), originally uploaded by ourielohayon. Google buys. Big Accel Ventures sell. Big (they sold Playfish to EA the same day)http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/what-a-day-for-google-and-accel.htmlGoogle maps Israel on the iPhonehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/l8viBfszJM4/google-maps-israel-on-the-iphone.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:42:30 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e2012875624c10970cGoogle maps Israel on the iPhone

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i have often complained of the lack of israel maps on google maps for the iPhone. this is a must have product when all 3 mobile operators will launch the iPhone. But i managed to get access to that already.

Don't ask me how

]]>via www.flickr.com i have often complained of the lack of israel maps on google maps for the iPhone. this is a must have product when all 3 mobile operators will launch the iPhone. But i managed to get access to...http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/google-maps-israel-on-the-iphone.htmlAchieving a 24h buzz recordhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/TZnPaDg8g2s/achieving-a-24h-buzz-record.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:03:40 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a6aada80970cFrom all those years in blogging, i think yesterday was a landmark in terms of how much buzz someone can achieve in less than 24h. Just the results

  • 2 mentions in ReadWriteWeb 
  • 2 mentions in TechCrunch (1 of which was for a gmail bug i was, rightly so,  first to report)
  • 3 mentions in TechMeme (although they took us down for some reason, but blogs are mentionning us)
  • 1 mention in Yahoo News, PC World, and Industry standard

I won't reveal the secret sauce. But what i will mention is that i just applied the old rule of hacking news by cracking a black box. This always works. and it's free

Which is always good when you don't have a dollar to spend on PR :)

]]>From all those years in blogging, i think yesterday was a landmark in terms of how much buzz someone can achieve in less than 24h. Just the results 2 mentions in ReadWriteWeb 2 mentions in TechCrunch (1 of which was...http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/achieving-a-24h-buzz-record.html Money Arthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/3S8viY_DEOw/money-art.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:03:10 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a6528c46970b

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Brilliant!

]]>via www.photobasement.com Brilliant!http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/money-art.htmlI like the view from Google Israel HQhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MyblogByOuriel/~3/-KZil61zEps/i-like-the-view-from-google-israel-hq.htmlmyblog@ohayon.name (Ouriel Ohayon)Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:24:15 PSTtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83452709769e20120a64e1b1c970b

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Google from inside is nicer than Google from the outside

]]>via img513.yfrog.com Google from inside is nicer than Google from the outsidehttp://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2009/11/i-like-the-view-from-google-israel-hq.htmlOuriel Ohayonnonadult