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Friday, October 24, 2003  Microsoft | PDC | Robert Scoble | Universal Studios   Party time on Microsoft! We're gonna party like it USED to be 1999!  I can't tell you where it'll be, I can't tell you when it'll be, but one thing I can tell you - is that if Microsoft is serving alcohol - you drink it, if Microsoft is serving giant crab legs or shrimp - you eat um - you take as much as you can from Microsoft.  All the time.  In fact if they'd serve $50B worth of crab legs - I'd eat um up - personally. Here's what prompted me to post this..... One thing I'm really looking forward to is the Monday night Bird of a Feather session on Weblogging. It's at 10 p.m. Looks like Robert McLaws has put together a great session. We'll have a "party within a party" on Wednesday night. The webloggers will meet somewhere inside Universal on Wednesday evening during the big attendee party. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 3:54:08 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Dina Mehta | Stuart Henshall   Dina and Stuart are here Just finished an excellent meal with Dina Mehta (that pronounced Deeeeeeeena, not DIIIIIIIIIna) and Stuart Henshall.  Dina is here doing a whirlwind tour - from Bombay. Dina is one of my favorite female bloggers (speaking of Haily Suitt and Misbehaving) and a really smart market researcher - sociologist. Her market = India. It's really great to be able to meet folks you meet via the blogosphere.  Stuart and Dina are working on social networks and corporate blogging into enterprise. Maybe one day Dina will fly me to India - which I haven't been to - in almost 30 years. 3:34:34 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Tribe.net   What's the worst thing about digital cameras? Pushing the button causes the camera to shake. Universal problem.  Anyway here's the crowd last night at the Tribe.net moderators meeting. Lots of great ideas - keeping the envelope pushing at Tribe.  My favorite request was to be able to post to Tribe message boards externally via email.  And of course, all teh fun games we all should be able to play together. 8:39:44 AM     - Let me hear from you []  SIPhones This was posted on the pho list yesterday by Michael Robertson..... Hot off the presses! SIP is to telecom, what MP3 is to music biz. Hold on tight boys and girls! -- MR  Make Free Worldwide Calls With World's First Affordable SIPadapter and Any Cordless or Standard Phone SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- SIPphone, Inc., (http://www.SIPphone.com) announces the release of SIPadapter, a new, easy to use, device that makes free worldwide calling possible on any standard phone. Available immediately for $79.99 from SIPphone.com/order via their retail partner Lindows.com, the SIPadapter is the first plug-and-dial device to allow high quality SIP calls over any phone, even a cordless unit common in many households. Telephone users can save hundreds of dollars on their phone bill by using the latest SIP technology which is now easier and more powerful then ever. A single SIPadapter can be purchased for $79.99 and a 2-pack is available for $149.99. Each SIPadapter comes immediately ready to use with no monthly fees or activation fees. There is also no per minute fees, so callers can avoid large long distance charges which means a SIPadapter can pay for itself in a very short time. SIPadapters include plug-and-dial technology from SIPphone.com making it easy to install and begin using. To install a SIPadapter, users simply plug the deck-of-cards-sized-unit into any broadband Internet connection such as a cable modem or DSL connection with a DHCP configuration. Then they plug a standard phone into the SIPadapter. After a short startup time, the phone will ring and when answered play a "welcome ring" announcing that the phone is available for use. A SIPadapter comes with a unique phone number beginning with (747). Users can hear their number echoed to them by dialing "**". More information including images are available at http://www.sipphone.com/adapter Once installed, users can place high quality calls to the worldwide SIPphone community now spanning 47 countries. In addition, toll free 800 and 8xx numbers can be accessed, even from SIPphones based outside the US. It is also possible to dial any telephone number using a common calling card while avoiding any monthly fees. By sharing their own SIP number with others, they can receive calls from other SIP users as well. Unlike a landline phone, a SIPphone is fully portable so a SIPphone can be moved to any broadband location and all calls to that SIP number will ring at this new location. "This SIPadapter is an industry first -- an affordable, plug-and-dial device which enables worldwide free calling using any household phone even a cordless unit," says SIPphone chief executive officer, Michael Robertson. "We expect it to be especially popular with international callers and businesses with geographically disperse business locations looking to lower their telecommunication bills." Bundled with every SIPadapter, is a free account on my.SIPphone.com, where a user can customize their phone, manage their numbers and view their call history. An online address book and popular features such as call-waiting, caller ID, and the logging of missed calls are all available as part of the free service. SIPadapters are available in limited quantities for immediate shipping both domestically and internationally and come with universal power adapters making them suitable for worldwide deployment. Interested resellers may also place priority orders by visiting http://www.sipphone.com/reseller. Sign up for the SIPphone mailing list at http://www.sipphone.com/signup, to stay abreast of the latest developments from the leader in plug n dial SIP products. About SIPphone, Inc. SIPphone's goal is to bring the benefit of SIP and free phone calls to a worldwide audience. By offering affordable, plug n dial phones, devices, software and an easy-to-use directory, SIPphone hopes to revolutionize how consumers do voice communications and the cost of those communications. The founder and CEO of SIPphone is Michael Robertson who is the founder and former CEO of MP3.com (digital music) and the founder and current CEO of Lindows.com (digital delivery of software). SIPphone is based in San Diego, California. Michael Robertson CEO, Lindows.com - World's Most Affordable Software CEO, SIPphone Inc - Call worldwide for free! michael@lindows.com ; SIP: 1 (747) 474-0001   Call me. Visit SIPphone.com to find out how! 5:16:19 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Microsoft | Robert Scoble   How to suck up to Microsoft - 10 easy lessons 1.  Reprint and swallow all of their propoganda; lock, stock and barrel. 2.  Smile allot like everything they're saying is changing your life. 3.  Ask about Bill allot.  That makes them think that you think that they all have personal relationships with his highness. 4.  Keep telling them about all the wonderful things you're going to do with their technology. 5.  Never - ever mention how shitty their code is, how come it takes till 3.0 to get it right, how long it takes to ship in the first place or the fact that this whole excersize is a cluster fuck - since nothing will be ready for over 2 years. 6.  Also - NEVER mention stock option plans.... 7.  Ask when's the party, where's the food, where's the alcohol, and go on and on about their goodey bags and the cheap trinkets they use to buy you off with - proving that it's all working. This reassures them. 8.  Make sure to ask at least ONE good technical question - to prove that you're listening.  Also along those same lines - make sure to ask ONE or MORE questions clarifying their schedule - as they're always very hazy on details like "when will this be avaiable". I've NEVER been to a Microsoft developer event that was clear on things like that. 9.  While you're at it - make sure to mention how great Outlook 2003 is. 10.  And the #1 one you're gonna get on Microsoft's good size "agree with Ballmer about how clueless the open source world is, how Linux doesn't matter and how shitty open source software is........" (you can tell you got um scared when they start bad mouthing somebody......) Here's Scoble's first PDC postings.... Over on my Longhorn Blog, I've posted my first PDC 2003 report and my first picture from PDC 2003. [The Scobleizer Weblog] Here's some interesting excerpts from Robert's post...... “Customers come first.” Some things we're doing along that vein: 1) Microsoft employees will sit in the very back of the auditorium to make sure that customers get the best seats (and Microsoft employees are asked not to attend the Sunday pre-conference sessions). 2) We will not get the goodie bags that attendees will get (at least not until every customer gets their bag first). 3) Employees are asked to wait for at least half an hour before heading for lunch, so that customers have first shot at the food. 4) We have very literally sold out and are not letting more attendees in the door (I saw the staff turn down requests from VPs here, which shows you how seriously it's sold out). Some other things that Microsoft employees who are attending the PDC were asked to do: 1) Be available in the Track Lounges (and other places) to answer questions. 2) Wear our identifying cards (we call them resource cards). These will quickly become collector items because each employee only has a few to share with attendees. But, each Microsoft employee should have a card in his/her badge holder to identify what team they are on. That way you can say “oh, I see you're on the WinFS team, can I ask you some questions....” 3) Help attendees in any way possible. 4) Listen and learn. 5) Do whatever you can to improve customer trust and satisfaction. 6) Watch the blogs and the newsgroups and participate. 7) Answer customer needs. Get in your customer's shoes and help them fix their business problems. Turn around the customer perception that we don't need to listen and respond to those needs. I think it's great that Microsoft people will let us eat first and sit in the back of the room. It's clear they respect us and that they won't be participating in any predatory, monopolistic behavior anymore. 5:07:54 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Sounds like Image Chat This new Picassa functionality sounds totoally cool. I wanna check it out! Picasa launches photo "Hello" digital photo communication thingy. Two words that explain why this -- and similar new services I'm seeing of late -- are so important: Image conversations. Online consumer digital-photo-organizer service Picasa just launched a new realtime share feature called Hello. I had a chance to sit down with Picasa/Hello CTO Michael Herf for a demo over coffee a few weeks ago, and was totally blown away by it. Don't think there's a Mac version yet, but for Windows users, it is most certainly the win. Snip from the press blurb: 'Hello' opens an entirely new way of sharing photos with friends and family through it's' private Peer-to-Peer network. Through this live experience, users connected via the internet are able to instantaneously share photos, and provide each other with immediate feedback using 'Hello's' chat function. 'Hello' simulates the experience of sitting down on the couch with a friend and showing them your photo album. This integrated software program eliminates email attachments so your readers can bring the highest quality of photos to life while allowing its users to organize, edit, make and share through its own private network Link [Boing Boing Blog] 12:46:15 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Eric Sigler | FOAF   FOAF lessons So we've been spending a lot of time (really Eric has) parsing through FOAF files, finding lots of "weird shit" in the files being input into our PeopleAggregator. There's one "discrepancy" that's driving me nuts - and tell me please readers, what you think seems logical. So these here FOAF files store info on someone and that someone's friends.  And there's this parameter called foaf:name - which is "guess what?" - a name of a person.  You don;t have to jump too deep into the semantic web to grok that one. But the problem we've been running into is that (for some god forsaken reason) it's not a standard to have that someone's name - the person's who's FOAF it IS - have their name come FIRST in the FOAF file. So if the names of everyone in the FOAF file are foaf:name (you, your friends, your enemies, your dentist, teh airport's dentist who's a psychological distance away from you....) then how are we supposed to know WHICH foaf:name is THE FOAF name of the person - who's FOAF file it is? Everytime we complain about weird shit like this - we're told "well it passed through the validator".  Oh gee, thanks....... So here's Dave Winer thanking certain syndication gurus for their RSS validator and all I'm thinking is "Oh geez, what are we gonna do?   Who cares if it validates - if it can't even tell what the name of the person's who FOAF file it is."  Woe is me (and Eric :-( Last year on this day: "I called both of the creators of the RSS Validator yesterday, Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby, to congratulate them on a very nicely done piece of software and to thank them for making a very positive contribution to the success of RSS." [Scripting News] 12:43:32 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Home Networking   Wireless Home LANs Here a nice overview of Wifi in the home.  Needless to say the software designed to take advantage of this sort of configuration doesn't exist. Drawing PC, TV and Stereo Into an Entertainment Loop. hen it comes to storing digital photos, editing video and downloading music files, computers are useful tools. But compared with even a modest home entertainment system, a computer is terribly inadequate when you want to display photos, play a movie or listen to music. So what can you do? Wirelessly beam the photos, music, and video from your PC to your TV and stereo. [PVRblog] 12:29:35 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Knowledge Navigator memories. Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited. During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple's famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. I first saw that video in 1988. Today I tracked down a copy and watched it again. It stands the test of time rather well! Certain elements of that vision are now routine -- for example, Google found me the video and WiFi delivered it to a PowerBook which, when equipped with its iSight camera, bears a family resemblance to the Dynabook-like talking computer featured in the video. Other aspects are still far out of reach, especially the conversational interface based on deep understanding of natural language. Clearly natural language is taking a lot longer than the pioneers expected. Back in 1953 researchers thought it was going to be a five year project. No-one in 2003 is so optimistic. In other respects, though, important elements of the Knowledge Navigator vision seem within reach. At one point, the fictional Professor Bradford tries to recall a paper he read five years before, in which a Dr. Flemson, he misremembered, disagreed with the direction of a colleague's research on deforestation. "John Fleming, of Uppsala University," the computer replied. "He published in the Journal of Earth Science in July 2006." Google's not quite there yet, of course, but it's helpful modification of failed queries is a step in the right direction. The next bit is more fanciful. "Fleming challenged Jill's prediction about the amount of carbon dioxide released due to deforestation," says Prof. Bradford. "I'd like to recheck his figures." "Here's the rate of deforestation he predicted," says the computer, displaying a chart. "Mm hmm," says Bradford, "and what really happened?" The computer overlays the actual data, showing significant variance from Fleming's prediction. It's a stretch, but we can at least imagine how to pull something like this off today. Fleming's data would be in XML; the software would infer a schema from it; a query to a Web service would yield the actual reported data; transformation would correlate the two data sets for display on a common surface. Presence, attention management, and multimodal communication are woven into the piece in ways that we can clearly imagine if not yet achieve. "Contact Jill," says Prof. Bradford at one point. Moments later the computer announces that Jill is available, and brings her onscreen. While they collaboratively create some data visualizations, other calls are held in the background and then announced when the call ends. I feel as if we ought to be further down this road than we are. A universal canvas on which we can blend data from different sources is going to require clever data preparation and serious transformation magic. The obstacles that keep data and voice/video networks apart seem more political and economic than technical. Apple's vision, in any case, was and is spot on. I wonder how much closer to reality it will be in another fifteen years. [Jon's Radio] My own memories of the Knowledge Navigator were that Apple sucked the energy out of the nascent multimeida industry by making promises that were unachievable.   There was the Helicar campaign, Hypercard and all sorts of "multimedia research."  They also $5M doing an interactive content project - based at Moss Beach - complete with deep sea diving, botanical ecosystem mapping and even aerial footage. Ah Apple - yah gotta love them.  While this was all going on, we were trying to make a living selling multimedia software and they gave away our only real competitaion - for free.  So I was dealing with "free software" - back then.  But somewhere out of the politics and meme manufacturing, came this gem.  Somewhere between the back massages and Cray SuperComputer came this little bit of sunshine.  Just when we had gotten completely sick of cute little Jean-Louis Gassee sayings, Guy Kawasaki banterings and John Sculley visionary ramblings - came this chunk of enlightenment. I believe it was produced by the Kenwood group. 12:21:31 AM     - Let me hear from you []