Nick Petreley summarizes the latest discussions about the future of SOA and I get a nice link. Worth reading to catch up on the latest discussion and direction of everyone's favorite top-down model for enterprise architecture. - Dion Hinchcliffe
It's not this particular phone which people believe is the "iPhone killer" - it's Android. ITunes users already have an iPod/iPhone. I don't use iTunes, and I guarantee that there will be an excellent music management utility on Android... and I'll be able to add additional memory to my phone. In addition, I will be able to install numerous free applications, and even create my own if I so desire. This phone might be ugly as sin, but it's starting at $200, which is a great price to hook people in on.. as Steve Jobs realized. I'm not saying it's an iPhone killer, but we all don't want iPhones. - Tim Hoeck
I don't. I had a Sk2. Probably one of the best phones I every used as far as the UI and stuff. I loved that phone, but it had to go cuz I needed to be able to install random crap on it for free...and the sk2 just wouldn't cooperate with that agenda. - Rah™
I wished they waited to launch it. IMHO, any Android phone at this time doesn't even begin to compare to the iPhone. Both hardware and software wise. Such a shame. G'morning, Duncan. :) - Mona N.
I'll take your bet @tim that android will not have music mgt software worth its code ... even if you don't want iPhone - what happened to any music mgr software since oh 2001 has not changed iTunes does control the market in a way quite similar to Google's advantage in search except Google has failed miserably on payments ... Android won't fix that - Scott Moskowitz
I don't have an iPhone. I suppose I should and then again I like to eat and have a place to live. So it will just have to wait. It will be interesting to see how the Android is received. - Paul W. Swansen
Scott. you are probably right.. iTunes is the best.. if you like DRM :) I'm curious as to what makes iTunes so great? I can use a number of apps to maintain my collection, download podcasts.. all the while streaming it to work or my phone or wherever else I have an internet connection. But if iTunes is the only music management software out there, how the heck have I been able to maintain my 20GB of mp3s so well? I prefer Amarok, but right now I am running Windows, so I am using a combination of software. - Tim Hoeck
That being said, iTunes is great because it's the best established, legitimate place to purchase music. - Tim Hoeck
I think the next version of the iPhone is the next iPhone killer - Douglas Karr
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@tim if you looked closely at my inventions you might find I actually have a very different perspective on security & rights management in general ... that said my views on DRM are that it is a failed file format ... Google should be straight & dismiss "net neutrality" as a term & policy - and make it possible to share in the upside of search / bandwidth - come on - be a little kinder ... digital watermarks exist today because of a love of music ... steganographic cipher, my friend - Scott Moskowitz
Scott.. it's not that I have a problem with some kind of digital management, but as you said, I think DRM was done wrong. Regardless, this is really about open/closed system. Apple likes a closed system. For those that are willing to endure this for Apple hardware/software, so be it. I like OS X, and I like the iPhone.. but I won't buy either - because of hardware constraints, or because of hardware prices. I want an open system, and I don't want to pay out the $#@ for it. - Tim Hoeck
@tim read my comment - I am no Apple fanboi - I am an inventor > please define "open/closed" system or even industry standard? "willingness to pay" that is all that we measure - ROI by the most objective measure cash-money - Scott Moskowitz
It's the standard Google encircle and overcome strategy ala OpenSocial. Variety, volume, and choice in Android platform phones should choke out many of its competitors, if done right. Google is making a big platform play here and it's getting increasingly better at executing on them by many indicators. - Dion Hinchcliffe
So no DRM? I guess there won't be audiobooks on the Android. I've been reluctant to switch to iTunes. The Genius button made me consolidate. It's still a slow POS. Plus who said you have to use DRM? Just about all my music is in mp3 format. - Rodfather
Tim, besides others talking about the phone not the OS, lets consider the OS. It's not an iPhone killer either. If "open" were supreme, we'd all be running Linux desktops :-) What this does though is challenge established players, create new buyers, stimulate growth and innovation. RIM is the obvious target upfront...and I'm betting that target two will be Nokia, as most other manufacturers of note are talking about Android handsets. It will create a platform that may well sell lots of phones... - Duncan Riley
Dion: The key here is "if done right". Do you really think the hardwares are iPhone competitors? Can the specs keep up with Android? And more importantly, would people want to buy it? Why didn't they wait for Chrome to mature to make it the default browser for Android handsets? As much as I'm rooting for Android, imho, the first release is going to be a FAIL. Epic one, at that. - Mona N.
@mona respectfully ... hardware is no longer relevant - patent pools for any number of configurations are prime "real estate"/IP ... its the configurations that matter in SoC that is fairly pervasive now ... The best case would be format & OS & hardware independence - content is analog - Scott Moskowitz
Scott: I see your point, but I think we're talking about two different things here. I'm looking at the current mobile market -especially in the US that are non-iPhone. None of the handsets can keep up; both hardware and software wise. I include hardware as well, because we haven't reached the point where the OS and respective softwares are independent for good user experiences. And to add to that, I was really rooting for the first Android handset to come out strong. Unfortunately, I don't think Dream is - Mona N.
will be 'that' handset. I hope I'm wrong. - Mona N.
@mona ... no, look at the failure of both musicmatch & iPhone in Japan ... admittedly years separated but I'll take my docomo phone over any product in the US & have plenty of storage via mini/microSD ... Americans spend too much time ignoring the man in the middle - providers - as the problem to innovation in the mobile device space ... Google is committed because they have a financial stake in spectrum - which too should be commons akin to Japanese Govt in ensuring real innovation in "services" - Scott Moskowitz
@mona the hardware is irrelevant comment stands & is treated by NTT by only allowing a letter or 2 to represent a handset manufacturer - N = NEC ; SO = Sony ; F = Fujitsu - too much brand not enough meat - Scott Moskowitz
But Scott, the Japanese.. well Asian markets are so different from the rest of the world. IMHO, if you live in Japan, and have an iPhone, it's only for show since clearly Japanese providers, services, and software is YEARS ahead. That said, I've used both Japanese and American mobiles. American mobile sites are hands down eons better than Japanese mobile sites. Though until iPhones, mobile browsing was something I NEVER did. Currently, there are no other handsets (in the US) that can give - Mona N.
me the same browsing experience as an iPhone and Mobile Safari because of both hardware and software constrictions. (Trust me, I play with my friend's handsets all the time. From Nokia to HTC touches). Opera Mini, IE, Minimo come close to - but currently are not even the realm of Mobile Safari competitors. And one last thing, what do you mean by ignoring the providers? - Mona N.
@mona 7 years living in Japan ... there is no handset in the US which reflects the reality of competition in the mobile handset space - no matter the hardware - nokia bought loudeye which gave them no music biz benefit ... Point stands - first company which converts "willingness to pay" to "paid" wins - iPhone & musicmatch are market failures in Japan - because bandwidth is an expense in the US & a "value" in Japan - I'm in typical America which is 14th in bandwidth - motorola never had a chance in Japan - Scott Moskowitz
@mona access providers create artificial points of leverage ... one is defining what you're network is ... chrome/safari create unreasonable ownership over what belongs to the user ... DoCoMo had to leave that alone - a Japanese landlne cost 700 bucks for installation for how long? ISDN was successful where in Japan - all those grey phones? They failed in the provider space which allowed Softbank & the bureaucrats to change their thinking ... AT&T, Verizon & Sprint are not lobbying for bandwidth competition - Scott Moskowitz
That's why it's exciting to see other companies scrambling to keep up with Apple's achievements outside of Asian markets by: 1) shifting the market towards Open 'platform' 2) Tremendous revenue share opportunities with apps (regardless of how flawed the app store may currently be) and 3) Forcing the vets of this industry to take a look at their products and making changes. Palm and RIM - both which were dominating the marketing for so long are... well... no longer major competitors. - Mona N.
As for your second point, I believe Telecomm companies ARE gradually pushing towards bandwith competition. Americans are about "the cheapest" and "best value" - with good reason. Before iPhones, we didn't have the 'need' for mobile data (aside from business users) As the US market continues to shift, you better believe data caps will soon roll out.I think Telecomm companies are gradually easing us into accepting cap'd data. Comcast started the ball rolling by cap'ing home data. Bold move. - Mona N.
@mona my last comment ... bandwidth is not yet measured as a "value" even though caps are completely artificial ... there is *no* bandwidth scarcity just lots of lobbyists Comcast? Innovation NOT ... Bandwidth is the currency ... Optimize the value of a bit in a bit per time calculation (bandwidth = bit/time) & you win ... Until the market protects the value creator (you would be in that category) the argument concerning bandwidth scarcity is nonsense ... You should share in the demand for *your* bandwidth - Scott Moskowitz
The iPhone didn't create the need for mobile data.. it's the internet-driven world we are living in that is driving it. iPhone might have a great browser, but it's not the end all for mobile internet.. http://friendfeed.com/e/2385c4... - There were plenty of great phones for mobile internet before the iPhone popped out of Apple. - Tim Hoeck
People have a respect for the quality of what Google delivers that is out of whack with the actual products they've been shipping for the last several years. - Jason Carreira
hurdle # 1 (as mentioned in the article): at the end of the day, an Android phone is still not an iPod. It doesn't connect to the # 1 retail store for music, the iTunes Store. It doesn't let people who already have iTunes or an iPod take their iTunes Store-purchased music with them. It doesn't have the ecosystem of iPod accessories. etc. - Karim
hurdle # 2: manufacturers can pick-and-choose what they software and hardware support want from Android, so there's no consistency; one person's "Android" phone has GPS and a camera and stereo Bluetooth; another person's "Android" phone doesn't have any of those. One person's "Android" has a ringtone store; another person's doesn't, and so on. The flip side of being "open" is the danger of forking or fragmenting the market. - Karim
I think in the future, there will only be two mobile OS'es: iPhone OS and Android. If every mobile manufacturer except Apple runs Android, then Apple will have some real competition. - Svartling
Well , I don't agree here. Ugly as sin...well the iPhone maybe. But yes, the gPhone is not an iPhone-Killer. Because the iPhone is not one of the most selling phone on the planet, and aqndroid is not a phone, but a platform. Soon, Android phone models will be sold for any consumer. For 1 Dollar with contract (the only way you will sel big amounts of phones in Europe) and the >500$ bragger-phone for elitist, which will pull iPhone snobs, too.
So you see, there is no iPhone-Killer, because no worldwide cellphone company cares about the iPhone really that much. Look at the numbers of Nokia phones selling worldwide, then you know the target of Google, and what is interesting to the providers. - Ryo
About a year ago, I favored an Android phone over the iPhone. But of course I came to my senses a few months ago. Still haven't sprung for the iPhone 3G, but it's on the list. - Mike Reynolds
then the artificial bandwidth caps come along - no transparency - not to renew the argument over value-add & attribution but ... - Scott Moskowitz
Open identity really is a technology that can slice sharply both ways: Increased convenience and control combined with increased dangers when accounts are successfully phished. Everyone should study this research as we design the next generation of our Web products. - Dion Hinchcliffe
my mind works the best ... i just park everything "in the field" with the intention to remember it when needed ... it is flawless ... and if something is missed, it just means life had something better in mind than what i was planning ... all this technology is just imitation mental goodness ... - Gregory Lent
Any app for Symbian S60 to use Remember the Milk? - Ozkan ALTUNER
Protpage.com. I keep a master list and todays list. Also some sticky notes for things like grocery lists or other reminders. Also keep my Google calendar on it. - ChiliMac
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Remember the Milk is awesome on Firefox inside Gmail with extension. - paisano
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@Ozkan here you have mostly US crowd who sold their souls for Apple crap, so don't expect them any serious advice on S60. For S60 you can use that Apple debilitated HTML output -- last service packs were adjusted so that Apple sites _also_ shown perfect. But better result will be with XHTML. For offline sync one might need someone to write you an app. - silpol
recently notes on iGoogle, but mostly still whatever piece of paper i can find. - laura
rmilk.com aka RTM aka Remember The Milk.. and going over my to do list has been named "Milking The Cow" by my friend. It integrates well, and I used JOTT with it until JOTT started to charge for the link. - RAD Moose
multi-prong approach: paper (yes) for quick organization and doodles (visuals); then i use a graphic tool (mindmapping) to plot out my project design --> MS project. I then use MS Outlook tasks to remind me of important milestones/checkpoints; also JIRA bug/issue tracking. Key tasks are in outlook / blackberry. (Grocery list is in google docs) - Susan Beebe
A decent guide to getting started with Amazon's services in the cloud. Not for the completely faint-of-heart but if you're not using S3 today, you're likely paying too much for storage and taking too many risks. - Dion Hinchcliffe
18 GB of family photos stored safe and secure on S3, wouldn't do it any other way... I figure Amazon has a better disaster recovery plan than I would ever have and they are s3sync'd to the cloud so I don't even need to think about it. - Ben Hedrington
It looks like Oracle is letting the real Enterprise 2.0 apps be delivered through BEA while Beehive makes sense of the increasingly tangled mess that is the existing landscape of enterprise communication and collaboration tools. - Dion Hinchcliffe
I use a very early form of Community Server to run my SOA blog but what's interesting about this piece is how the bullet points apply to any Enterprise 2.0/community platform. - Dion Hinchcliffe
They're calling in 1 TB in the palm of your hand. An iPhone app that aggregates and manages your content and social sites from all over the Web. Info management is becoming a critical problem on the Web these days. - Dion Hinchcliffe
This event is taking place next week in the mid-west. I'll be presenting for two days to a packed audience hall on the very latest in Web 2.0 business strategy, enterprise architecture, and thinking. We'll have lots of deep business-level material on day one and lots of strategic tech on day two. I hope to see you there. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Jevon is dead on when it comes to the infrastructure and standards requirements of Twitter/lifestreaming tools in the enterprise. But putting business process structure into the tools in anything more than the lightest way possible will ruin them. We want to keep structure out and let it emerge as much as possible. Love the ability for follow a hashtag in http://yammer.com by the way. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Good coverage of Innocentive and it's approach to network-based product development (aka Product Development 2.0) and innovation. Has solved over 250 problems, usually in the range of $10K-$25K. - Dion Hinchcliffe
An absolutely tremendous piece on the various methods for securing an open API and includes a thorough overview of each. If you're opening your company up to the cloud, the considerations here are vital. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Fascinating rebuttal of the lightweight architecture folks, particularly the REST crowd (which I include myself in.) Worthy of a detailed read, even if some of the assumptions and certainly the outcomes we're seeing in this (the heavyweight EA) space, don't live up to this largely terrific defense. - Dion Hinchcliffe
A collaborative social Q&A site for programming knowledge. Another good application of deliberate peer production of collective intelligence for focused outcomes. Created by the very well known Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood. - Dion Hinchcliffe
John Musser announces the Enterprise Web Conference, which I'll be keynoting at (both New York City and London events). A great line-up to cover the latest in lightweight enterprise architecture, WOA, SOA, and mashups. - Dion Hinchcliffe
One of the best examples of live open innovation and Product Development 2.0 I've seen so far. Netflix wants a better recommendation algorithm and is opening it's data and letting code compete live against other submissions. The prize? $1 million for a better result. A great way to harnes the innovation and creativity on the edge of the network. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Businesses are getting more and more serious about 2.0 change and here are some of the key aspects that business and technical leaders need to know. - Dion Hinchcliffe
An interesting, new open data sharing Web app. It allows anyone to easily collect and distribute data about anything in a fairly social manner. - Dion Hinchcliffe
More hacks emerge to make Web apps work offline like desktop apps. Interesting tutorial for Google Docs using Fluid and Gears for Webkit - Dion Hinchcliffe
This is the new conference series on lightweight enterprise architecture, WOA, and mashups. I'll be keynoting at both the New York City and London events. Other great speakers there include the esteemed John Musser, Steve Vinoski, Jim Webber, Steve Tilkov, and my good friend Hart Rossman. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Facebook is providing solid community support for their social application ecosystem. A $10M fund for grants plus mentoring, support, marketing, and more. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Excellent results on the state of agile processes today, which underpins so much Web 2.0 and other software development today. Key metrics on what practices are growing and overall success rates. - Dion Hinchcliffe
“Help... I need to get very smart, very fast on Cloud Computing. Looking to FF for suggestions, who should I read, who is writing good content on the topic?”
cloud computing, kinda reminds me of IBM's old "selling mainframe time" or was it suns "the network is the computer" rhetoric.. either way, "cloud computing" isn't a new concept and has been around for longer than I have been a sysadmin (and that's gonna be 9 years this november). Personally, I can't see many corporations going for it.. too much at stake when it comes to entrusting your data with another company and is a massive point of failure (net connection) - alphaxion
