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Apple = interoperability?

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:55:35 +0000

Hilarious that it looks like that it’s gonna be Apple that’s gonna be pushing the interoperability of photo sharing with their authenticated media rss like photocasting publishing and subscription build-in in iPhoto.
Nothing new here at all. And probably not Apple’s intention at all.
But sharing of photos between users of different photo sharing services just might become possible – also for private photos.
We’re all ready working hard at 23 to implement it right away!

Interesting Adam Bosworth talk

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:40:21 +0000

Interesting Adam Bosworth talk mostly about simplicity.
Love his opening remark – “Tim Berners Lee created the web as we know it today and preaches a sort of religion about the semantic web from his eerie at MIT that is totally over my head. “

BBC does podcasting

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:06:27 +0000

BBC joins the podcasting craze – read more atInterconnected.
Validation anyone?

Next 2004

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:27:39 +0000

unwired.dk: Next 2004: Udstilling om fremtidens hverdag
Innovationlab is doing their exhibition/conference once again. Last years was ok with loads of gadget – but some examples of connectivity and social interaction would’ve been nice.
Looking forward to this years event – you can visit the exhibition for only 50 danish kroner.

FireFox 1.0 Release Party in Copenhagen

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:50:56 +0000

firefox 1.0 – danish dynamite – release party for the opensource browser firefox
– experience the power of a global selforganizing marketing launch!

podcasting acronym

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:01:38 +0000

Podcasting = Personal On Demand casting
Since the term podcasting isn’t likely to go away here’s a try at construction what the acronym would stand for.
A Personal On Demand media subscription/casting system.

The ultimate micro publishing tool

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:03:12 +0000

The ultimate micro publishing tool ever
Just preordered this – hope that it’ll ship soon. It’s simply the most powerful mobile publishing tool available. Triband GSM/GPRS, Wifi, Bluetooth, VGA camera with 320×240 video recording with 15 frames in mpeg4, built in pullout keyboard, windows mobile 2003 operating system meaning a good built in web browser. Presenting the i-mate PDA2K GSM/GPRS Pocket PC (Or the the XDA IIi, the Qtek 9090, the Vodafona VPA III, etc. since it’s an oem product built by HTC in China).
It’s a tv station in your pocket, it’s a newspaper in your pocket, it’s a radio station in your pocket – imagine the possibilities for the creative age if the kids start publishing instead of consuming big media – the tools are here, now it’s just cultural…
If your can wait a couple of months more it’ll be released in a version adding a megapixel camera, higher processor speed, vga resolution screen and 3g/utms support.

Gmail

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:06:30 +0000

Want a gmail account – send me a mail – i’ve got 10 invitations standing by…

violet – ambient wifi lamp

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 24 May 2004 14:02:34 +0000

v i o l e t – the first wifi compatible mood/ambinet lamp. I wan’t 5-10 of those in every office enviroment to give demonstrate state – hope that ambient devices comes out with something affordable with an open webservices architecture for connecting to it.

The Google OS

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:25:00 +0000

Topix.net on Google’s real strength – their massive 100,000 server based operating system – an unique platform for delivering services.

NorthQ DVD Player/Recorder

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:59:23 +0000

NorthQ DVD Player/Recorder. Interesting new danish company with an innovative product. Love the optionel plugin hard drive you can buy yourself on the street and plugin.

BBC Creative Archive

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:52:04 +0000

You take the licensing meme from the Creative Commons and the value of archiving from the Internet Archive – and you get – BBC Creative Archive.
The value of public broadcasting reinvented for the internet age – instead of public broadcasters trying to be like commercial stations.
If you added subscriptions and notifications it would be the perfect solution (hint: rsspayload!)

Sterling Rush: Dressing the Set for “24″

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:19:25 +0000

Sterling Rush: Dressing the Set for “24″.
A wonderful article about how simple tools/solutions created by the people who are gonna be using them can work.
If this had been the it industry someone would have tried to sell his manager an “Entreprise Continuity Solution” with a zillion options to consider, backup systems, service contracts and legal mumble jumbo.
Instead he just bought an ibook with iphoto and created a really simple solution that works in the real world.

Cory Doctorow: Metacrap

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:21:22 +0000

Cory Doctorow: Metacrap
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia

IBM RVA (Not Shark) Downs Danish Bank

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:44:43 +0000

IBM RVA (Not Shark) Downs Danish Bank
Good detailed analysis of the storage/database problems that took down the largest bank in Denmark, Danske Bank, for a week or so. [via Mr. Unicast]

Japan Media Review

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:37:12 +0000

Japan Media Review. Interesting site covering the japanese media and mobile media technology. And the site even has a very stylish simple design.

follow-up to the us=ms$ rant

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 01:01:28 +0000

Ming the Mechanic has a good follow-up to the us=ms$ rant

The Semantic Web and Challenges

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:36:56 +0000

The Semantic Web and Challenges – presentation by Tim Berners-Lee.

Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:48:44 +0000

Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software. Dave Stutz resigns from Microsoft and gives this advice to his former employer.

Prada: The Science Of Desire

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 18:34:11 +0000

Prada: The Science Of Desire. Amazingly detailed article on the futuristic Prada shop project. Worth a read for everyone interested in the future convergence of the digital and physical spaces.

And you wanna discuss whether Microsoft has a monopoly…?

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:26:09 +0000

And you wanna discuss whether Microsoft has a monopoly…?
Since i’ve got this discussion over and over with people here’s some data. Microsofts income margin for their total business is around 40-45%, but when you dig deeper into the reporting and get the data from the two business segments where they really have a monopoly the data get’s even more interesting.
Quarterly revenue from the three months ended Sept. 30 2002 showing the two most profitable segments:
Client operating systems: Turnover 2,892,000,000. Income 2,482,000,000. 85% income margin.
Applications (Office, etc.): Turnover 2,385,000,000. Income 1,879,000,000. 79% income margin.
Any company in a mature competitive industry would die for income margins around 10-15%. Anyone ever seen income margin levels like these before?

Profile on swedish opensource stars, MySQL AB

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:54:52 +0000

Profile on swedish opensource stars, MySQL AB
“In our business model, we have an ecosystem around MySQL, which is huge worldwide. As a company, we are very small in the middle of it. This is very different from the traditional proprietary model. In the past, if you had a fantastic product like Lotus did with Lotus Notes, then you owned or controlled as much as 60% of the surrounding ecosystem, including services, books and education, yourself. We don’t mind that our ecosystem is 200 times larger than our company is. That’s why our cost level is ridiculously low. When it looks like we’ve done something, it’s usually someone else who did it.”

Revolution OS

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:33:52 +0000

Revolution OS – 9 minute preview of the movie about the open source movement. via [netliv.net]

Paul Andrews: Microsoft to give PCs a little Google

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:57:38 +0000

Paul Andrews: Microsoft to give PCs a little Google – reflecting on the next Windows release code-named “Longhorn”

Nyholm on Liberty Alliance

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:43:37 +0000

Nyholm’s gone crazy on the Digital Identity Weblog with lot’s of postings about digital identity/the liberty alliance spec.