The Yahoos! at Yahoo live up to their name bit.ly/KjjGFb
Lightsquared goes dark and circles the wagons http://nyti.ms/JDzW4Y
Facebook Privacy Policy Clarifies They Suck http://bit.ly/LMStg1
ATT and Axeda did a webinar with me http://bit.ly/LMUB7v
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I interviewed Carol Davids while we together at IIT’s RTC event in Naperville, IL.
The discussion quickly got on to the driving force for adaptation of communication. As we talked about the twilight of the POTS, SIP and Mobile are being driven by the consumer’s expectation for rich media.
Texting and videos to 911 are assumed even though no process is in place to accept them. SIP is being pushed into the Web with RTCWeb and the rich media opportunities that provides. The team did a great job of running the event and I look forward to seeing participating next year.
I should also mention that the Lab is a great resource for companies to connect with students by donating equipment that can be then used to research new opportunities.
Interview with Chris Mayer of Verizon about the state of 4G LTE. Chris is involved in the development and design of systems integration and testing and his insight as to where we stand with Verizon Wireless 4G LTE roll out is informative.
For those who don’t know Verizon is making it happen with over 160 cities turned up so far with amazing speeds above their promised numbers. Once the load gets on the network they will deliver what they promised, but as Chris points out it’s hard to imagine an application for consumers that notices the difference between 10 MB down and 21 MB down.
Also interesting in the interview is an M2M application for HD Cameras. I think we will see more of these types of opportunities.
Enjoy the video.
PS The Video was taken while at the IIT Real Time Commmunications event.
Google+ Envy
Unlike Facebook where I am victim of my personal life bleeding into the pages and my two personas having no distinction between each other.
Google+ so far has been very professional. And what has been really great is the ability to add into my circles people of interest for my various activities.
For example, for circle following I am putting in a general basket of people who show up in the people I care about.
I have a circle for everyone one of my events and also for my personal interests and I move from circle to circle to see what the difference is in the walls. Buy in large no one is in more than one circle that gives me the most coverage of what people are saying.
However, certain friends are clearly the “A” team of Google+ Om Malik has almost 30,000 followers and even though I am in his circle, I feel a tinge of envy.
Rob Scoble has over 100,000 people following him, while Ashton Kutcher has a little fewer than 37,000.
On Twitter, Ashton has over 47,000 fans, Rob has almost 200K and OM has over 1.4 million.
Obviously the question needs to be asked what do the demographics look like and are these device dependent or post dependent stats.
For me as my favorite New Zealand Poet has written http://bit.ly/q5Xqfu Boldly Bring I up the Rear. If you are interest in being just a follower, I have to warn you I strive for perfect symmetry where I follow as many as follow me. However for now, I seem to be lagging in the followers.
Hence the envy; we could even call it “Envy+”
Obama is praying to G-d and his prayer is answer by the ghost of Moses who says to Obama, “Have Congress ratify the Ten Commandments”
Obama brings the leaders of congress in and tells them he wants to ratify the Ten Commandments.
Well the democrats consider this a violation of church and state and say they don’t want like the G-d part, but maybe they can go along with the rules about personal property.
The republican like the G-d part but think the killing part is some sort of back door against the military so they want to modify that it only applies to the murder of unborn babies and police officers.
The tea party is upset and refuses to participate because they would like additional commandments about marriage, balanced budgets, and the right to bear arms.
Obama then goes on TV and tells the people he needs their help and cable networks blast him for his inability to compromise. After all he only talked about the commandments in generalities he never wrote them down nor referred to a specific bible.
Obama turns to Michele and asks her for support when he goes back to tell Moses what has happened.
Moses listens and is about to raise his staff when Michele steps in and says. Look, if you can do that Red Sea thing on Capital Hill, we won’t have a problem.
Moses thinks for a moment and says you’re right. I only had one Pharaoh to contend with you. You have two rooms full of them.
And so our prayers go unanswered.
If the Chips Get it? Why are the Apps so far behind?
At Devcon5 this week Google, Mozilla, nVidia, and Samsung representatives in the Khronos Group and WebGL experts are going to talk about the future of graphics in HTML5.
Candidly, This is going to be an amazing session about rendering and it should put to rest a bunch of my friends that keep suggesting that Device OSes are the answer.
The reality is the chips are being optimized for the web not for devices and as Charles Jolley formerly of Apple will tell you, the screen is where you look. Yes, design of the hardware is important, but most of us look at more than one screen. And software is the glue and HTML5 is the bond of the Internet.
Devcon5 is a design conference for those of us going to be alwayson the web.
Designers, Developers and Deployers all need to join us here. http://bit.ly/kemjrq
I am suffering from friend envy on Google+, I recognize that unlike Mike Arrington, Om Malik, Jeff Pulver, and Rich Therani I do not play the social network game correctly.
I find it hard to engage in large audiences of unknown people. In a crowd I like to pick them off one by one and learn about them.
So as I browse around Google+ I am amazed to see the numbers of people following the gurus and the fact that I am inviting more than I am invited.
Perhaps, this is a sign of my issues with Social networks. Or perhaps its opportunity for me to change.
I also noticed that my buzz posts were dated and my recent writings are missing.
So clearly, I have some issues.
But thanks to Google+ I think I may have a feedback system. Like a Skinnerian Box, I can press the bar of submit and see what happens to my posts.
Of course if this does not happen, the paranoia will set in.
If you are on Google+ and want to make feel better please feel free to connect with me.
It’s time to submit.
I am heading down to Florida now getting ready for the events.
I want to take a few moments and reflect on where we are. TMC is a good partner and our content has found a nice home with ITEXPO. We are providing thought leaders a venue to speak about energy, networks, machines, wireless and the web.
Some of our events will be standalones this year. Which is exciting, but the truly amazing experience is the online component that TMC brings to the table.
Last year we did a series of webinars for Radvision. I will not tell you the stats since that is only for their eyes, but let me say this of the 8 webinars we had less than 10% go to more than 1. Almost 80 percent of the names were unique at each webinar. This was pretty amazing given the series dealt with some common themes from time to time.
I think a lot of this can be attributed to the amazing optimization at www.tmcnet.com It truly is the “world’s largest B2B site”.
I am looking forward to serving our community with more content, more webinars, more channels and community sites.
However, right now I am looking forward to the connection with people. See you in Miami.
One more note if you can’t make it physically, please consider joining us virtually for the Regulatory 2.0 event on Friday February 4th from 9:00 AM EST to 1 PM EST at http://www.4gwe.mobi
At the beginning of the discussion on open White Space a lot of interesting background noise was happening. Particularly exciting were the thoughts of Brough Turner , who speaks regularly at our 4G summit. Those of us who have been trending with the Internet have watched shifts in design take us to new paradigms of service (often thwarted by archaic regulation). One place where the Internet has changed the wireless landscape forever is with WiFi.
Every carrier supports a WiFi offload strategy and some have the understanding that WiFi can be the wireless backbone of their future.
Just like the days when ATM was suppose to be the next wave, there is good reason to suspect the innovator’s really have a dlilemma. However, as Tom Evslin has pointed out. If you can do so much much with the poor spectrum allocated to WiFi, image what they can do with White Space.
Additionally, a friend at the FCC was very excited about some of the processing strategies associated with 5G that may apply to White Space in the near future.
The article from Lynnette Luna in FierceBroadband reflects the concerns of some in the marketplace who have legacy. Lynette, here is an open invitation to come and see that the innovators are moving past the dilemma.
With Goldman Sacks valuing Facebook at $50 B with the monies from a “Russian Investor”. I had to laugh. If the CIA had Google, why can’t the KGB have Facebook.
Mind you that is just speculation, but as we have all seen the blue bulb of the Internet, I want to raise a caution flag.
When the Internet was young and the carriers did not offer access, AOL was the primary dial up service. AOL was its own ecosystem and as such did not have the legs Facebook has, but as I watch my wife and her friends share their lives on Facebook in far too a familiar manner I ask myself is this the sustaining model of the future?
Many applications are offering me automatic links to Facebook including the ability to use Facebook as the userid and password.
For me it feels like Deep Packet Inspection is a wasted effort since Facebook knows all.
But the nuances of privacy are not normally a concern for the young. I think we have another 3-5 years before Facebook’s pervasive penetration is recognized as something that needs to be avoided.
While I hear parents and children fight about the invasion of privacy the fact that all generations are on this platform has not truly sunk in.
Over dinner I am constantly hearing of parents that are hiding the fact they read their kids pages.
I think when the next generation of parents sees their kids on facebook the level of parental control will either be integrated or force the kids into a new world.
I would love to hear of your experience. Drop me a line.
Your Secret is Safe with Me.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/goldman-invests-in-facebook-at-50-billion-valuation/