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    Social Media and Holiday Shopping

    by Andrew McCaskey
    No Surprise Here

    The latest comScore report shows that online spending is up over 3% from 2008 for the period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday through the first week of December. And, a lot of that increase is attributed to Social Media.

    If there is any surprise, it’s that it is so small an increase. And it can only be expected to increase in the weeks to come . The reason ? The changing demographics of Facebook.

    The fastest growing segment of Facebook is the over thirty-five population. And I would expect that the fastest growing group within that is the rapidly approaching retirement Baby Boomers who not only have the disposable income, but have spent the past year getting newly acquainted with friends and distant family members on Facebook. It’s far more engaging than email, and, once you hide the Mafia Wars, Vampire Games, Farmville and similar annoyances you find that it’s worthwhile to follow a few of your favorite vendor fan pages.

    Tie in a little bad weather to make the trip to the mall a bit more trouble, and the grandkids – who’s new photos just arrived are in an even better position than they would have been in years gone by. The only surprise is that it’s only a 3% growth.

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    We Have . . A Winner

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    Slow Internet meets its Waterloo

    Waterloo, Iowa isn’t a name that conjures up visions of “blazing-fast Internet,” but it’s about to get the fastest residential connections in the country: 105Mbps. Waterloo is no high-tech haven; more typical are the surrounding farms, the John Deere plant, and a massive Target distribution center. Cable operator Mediacom is changing that perception, though, installing DOCSIS 3.0 gear that will boost the top-tier 20Mbps speeds in town up to 105Mbps, the highest speed in the country.

    Due to cable’s shared architecture, residents will rarely if ever see a full 105Mbps on their home connections. . If a modern cable plant has been properly installed, there is enough bandwidth that DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades require only headend upgrades and new modems, not extensive trenching and street-level work. The telcos, which depended on low-bandwidth copper wire for so many decades, now face a choice. To get more bandwidth, they can run fiber to the home (Verizon), fiber to the node (AT&T), or deploy new phone lines and rely on channel bonding. None is as simple or cheap as cable’s upgrade path.

    Unless Verizon is willing to aggressively push the deployment of FIOS service, it is going to be very hard for them to overcome the lead that DOCSIS 3.0 provides. And very hard to plow that back into the rate base and get it past various state regulatory authorities.

    On the other hand, it may be justice for 40 year amortization schedules of copper paid for 37 years ago that have enabled telcos to stay behind the times in comfort.

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    Connectify a Roundtable Hit

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    RoundtableDemo

    As I mentioned last week, Connectify.me is a new service that is going to turn into a game changer. And it offers real value and is going to sell more Windows 7 laptops to business users than any ad campaign.

    We had Alex Giziz, CEO on our TPN Roundtable, and got some more insight into the free download for Windows7 that creates a wifi hotspot from a net connection. In his demo, he was able to create the site and link his iPod Touch into the laptop within a few seconds. The hotspot is secured by passphrase, and even if an intruder is able to guess the phrase or has left the group, the host is able to observe the real time participants on his machine.

    If you are a mobile worker, you really can’t live without connectivity. Connectify is going to be an essential part of mobile professional’s toolkits for years to come.

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    Speaking Radio, Data and Telephone

    by Andrew McCaskey
    Speaking Radio and Telephone

    The recent problems and the virtual collapse of the AT&T network from overload congestion with iPhone data traffic has received a lot of press. Now, some hope that the problem may not be as serious as thought: although someone will end up with some serious explaining to do. It appears that at last some of the problems may be due to misconfiguration of routers in the AT&T network.

    The problem is in the cross disciplinary nature of the beast. A telephone company has to employ radio in a data networking problem. In addition to the organizational challenges, there’s a cultural one as well. I’ve observed each of the three worlds up close (adding maybe a fourth one with broadcast engineers) and there is absolutely a total difference in vocabulary, approach, standards and expectations.

    The wireline engineers in control of some of the settings that put “maximum buffering” into the system – resulting in ping times up to eight seconds. What should have happened is much smaller buffers that would allow short term blockage to occur and then prompt temporary but automatic fallback in speed that would have removed the congestion. Add in radio effects of jitter with mobiles in motion, and it’s a wonder the system ever settles in as well as it does.

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    Multi-Tasking and the Brain

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    As We Suspected

    Does our modern interrupt driven way of living and business have a permanent re-wiring effect on the brain ? The report from the Stanford study is in some ways not a surprise at all. Just like we wanted to believe a number of things on the economic front, what goes up must come down, and when you are not paying attention, things get messed up.

    That’s the conclusion of the study on a number of undergraduate participants – who were asked to complete standard psychological tests and self report on the ir wired working habits. Those who were “highly skilled” at handling interrupts were most at risk in their performance on the testing suite.

    I’ve certainly observed the problem – struggling with Attention Deficit Disorder – and congratulating myself on the ability to keep a number of projects going, and keep an eye and ear peeled for new opportunities. Plus – the inability to watch movies more than 25 or 30 years old. Prior to that, and there’s a snoozer in the making. Perhaps the stream of news needs to be even more closely monitored to make sure that excessive multitasking is not killing productivity that we think is being enhanced.

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      A Rotten Idea – GPS Auto Tracking

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      GPS Tracking for Gasoline Tax

      The Kansas City Star reports that there are trials underway at the University of Iowa involving GPS tracking for tax enforcement. With a target date of 2020, they will need those 11 years of lead time to handle the first round of lawsuits.

      The notion is that as fuel efficiency increases, revenues from the gasoline tax go down. The tech solution is to place GPS trackers on every vehicle and then read them remotely and send a bill each month based on the exact miles driven. This would, supposedly replace the 18 cents per gallon gas tax with a mileage tax of 1 or 2 cents per mile driven.

      There seem to be an increasing number of things that get investigated without thinking – and this is a prime candidate. Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should.

      Or maybe you’d be willing to sell your right to privacy of movement for half a penny a mile ? If your auto gets a bit better than 20 mpg and the gas tax is roughly 18 cents, you’d “save” 16 cents and be able to drive around 32 miles on the difference.

      This sounds like a non-starter. And the EFF and ACLU have not even begun to sharpen up their knives. As well they should.{sharethis}

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      Smart iPhone Developer Targets

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      Win Prizes or Sell Apps ?

      An advertising director I once knew was very skeptical of Award Winning Advertising campaigns. He maintained that Awards were nice, but they did not sell product. In the short term, iPhone developers are facing the same choice.

      Apple iPhone 3GS—a fast smartphone with twice the processor speed and double the memory . But the sweet spot right now is not that $199 phone, it’s the fact that the regular 3G version will remain on sale, with the priced dropped to less than $100. – the $99 iPhone.

      The success of the iPhone is due in no small measure to the army of developers that are creating apps while Apple handles the commmercial engine, credit and collections. A great app, especially a game can literally print money for a developer.

      At $100, the3Gt iPhone hits a new level of consumer. As Popular Mechanics observed, “Americans have time and again demonstrated that they look for value over horsepower in personal electronics”. Netbooks have slow processors and minimal storage. The Wii stomped the far more powerful and more expensive PlayStation 3. Simply because they are affordable.

      Instead of focusing on elaborate apps for the new phone, a smart developer is going where the money is going to be, at least in the short term. {sharethis}

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        Joomla Core Team Loses Two

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        Abillo Captures a Pair

        The Open Source Start-up Abillo has captured two of the key members of the Joomla Project. Abillo is a new open source project, and Wilco Jansen and Anthony Ferrara’s resignation from the Joomla! Core team last week caught a lot of the Content Management System (CMS) world by surprise. Joomla users and developers are to be assured that continuity of the Joomla project has been a priority, given the changes.

        Abillo is emphatically not a fork of Joomla – but a “completely new codebase, community and services set” according to Wilco Jansen, the CEO of Abillo, Inc.

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          Twittering Celebs and Decline

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          It’s Not Just Trendy

          It’s cheap – and it’s going to increase. User contributed content has got to be the greatest enhancement to programming cost reduction to come along for a number of years. As noted at Fanboy.com, the nose of the camel entered the tent roughly 45 years ago, as news of the Kennedy Assassination reached most Americans by television or radio, rather than newspaper. That began the slow decline that is only now working its way towards a logical end game.

          The same eventual fate awaits network and cable news, evne though it may take another twenty years. The celebrity twitterings of Larry King and Oprah are the symptoms of that decline.

          The first indicators began to appear with the introduction of TIVO, which for the first time let viewers recognize that they could allocate less than fifteen minutes of content time for the evening “News” and often were able to zip thorugh the pop culture/celebrity components and trim the news content to around ten minutes of the nominal “half hour”.

          The contest between Larry King and Ashton Kucher was a celebrity death match -a fun publicity stunt. But with Don Lemon and other CNN personalities making Twitter and Facebook a major component of their on air persona their tweets become one more reason to not watch – and to recognize that the TIVO treatment of their on-air presence is headed rapidly towards content free territory.

          User Generated content is not only trendy, it’s cheap. And as much as we love the cute pet tricks and storm footage on i-Report it’s a current bottom line improvement that is going to sow the seeds for a meager harvest in just a few years.

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          ]]>           http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2009-04-20-twittering-celebrities-and-decline.html/feed 0 chopra,iPhone,piracy,piratebay,torrent Aneesh Chopra New CTO Google is the New Pirate Bay Ethical Hackers Wanted by DHS * Aneesh Chopra New CTO * Google is the New Pirate Bay * Ethical Hackers Wanted by DHS (https://secure.nozbe.com/img/nozbe-ad-2.gif) BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. (http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2623879-10522285) (http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-2623879-10522285) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) * Aneesh Chopra New CTO * Google is the New Pirate Bay * Ethical Hackers Wanted by DHS SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter (javascript:void(0)) (javascript:void(0))(http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg) Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. (http://media.techpodcasts.com/news/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/libsyn.com/media/slashdotreview/SDR2009-04-20.mp3) SDR News Links (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews/SDR2009-04-20) If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews) Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us (http://thumblicio.us/index.php?username=SDRNews) SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST (http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2623879-10513782) Twittering Celebs and Decline by Andrew McCaskey The Real Story Behind Cable News Twittering PDF Print E-mail Written by Andrew McCaskey Sunday, 19 April 2009 21:34 It's Not Just Trendy It's cheap - and it's going to increase. User contributed content has got to be the greatest enhancement to programming cost reduction to come along for a number of years. As noted at Fanboy.com, the nose of the camel entered the tent roughly 45 years ago, as news of the Kennedy Assassination reached most Americans by television or radio, rather than newspaper. That began the slow decline that is only now working its way towards a logical end game. The same eventual fate awaits network and cable news, evne though it may take another twenty years. The celebrity twitterings of Larry King and Oprah are the symptoms of that decline. The first indicators began to appear with the introduction of TIVO, which for the first time let viewers recognize that they could allocate less than fifteen minutes of content time for the evening "News" and often were able to zip thorugh the pop culture/celebrity components and trim the news content to around ten minutes of the nominal "half hour". The contest between Larry King and Ashton Kucher was a celebrity death match -a fun publicity stunt. But with Don Lemon and other CNN personalities making Twitter and Facebook a major component of their on air persona their tweets become one more reason to not watch - and to recognize that the TIVO treatment of their on-air presence is headed rapidly towards content free territory. User Generated content is not only trendy, it's cheap. And as much as we love the cute pet tricks and storm footage on i-Report it's a current bottom line improvement that is going to sow the seeds for a meager harvest in just a few years. Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network (http://slashdotreview.com/?page_id=878) Aneesh Chopra - CTO Watch Today's Video Episode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfoBMNhjHU8&feature=player_embedded) (/wp-images/YTlogo.gif) Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . (http://www.youtube.com/group/slashdotreview) If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up (http://www.techpodcasts.com/special.html) for our upcoming roundtable. Andrew McCaskey clean           SDRNews SDR2009-03-10 Time for a New User Interface http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2009-03-10-time-for-a-new-user-interface.html http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2009-03-10-time-for-a-new-user-interface.html#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:42:53 +0000 Administrator http://slashdotreview.com/?p=1287
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            Netbooks Lead the Way

            It’s awfully easy to become set in your ways, and determine that the best tool for any job is the one that you first learn. Once that preference settles in, your brain and reflexes somehow get patterned into the “one right way” to do a task. We’ve had about twenty years of conditioning with desktops, icons, and folders, and netbooks are telling us it’s time to change.

            It’s with interest that I see this is being challenged by the new Linux based operating systems for Netbooks. And the challenge is to the human factors, not the underlying operating system. Innovators noticed that the restrictions of the netbook – seven inch screen, small keyboard were as much as a driver for change as the relatively underpowered CPU and power / battery life restrictions.

            They also noted the success of the iPhone’s large icons, choosing from among a number of pre-defined common tasks. Thus, systems such as the CloudOS will look a lot more like the iPhone and a lot less like a desktop of any description, Vista, XP or KDE. They are betting that netbooks will be used a lot like mobile phones. If that is the case, the applications will in the main be simple – and if they are fast,easy to read and stable they will more than make up for a lack of variety.

            On the MacBook, I have gotton a lot of use out of the utility “Hazel” – which main function is to sweep icons representing files and folders off the desktop and into the Documents directory where it is searchable but out of sight. Hazel does it automatically, a service that I gladly pay for on the full capabillity laptop. It will be great to have the same built in to the netbook that’s on the purchase list once this recession loosens it’s grip.

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            ]]>             http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2009-03-10-time-for-a-new-user-interface.html/feed 0 android,Intel,iPhone,netbooks Android Sales to Pass iPhone in 2012 Shape Shifting Smartphones Cebit Scales Back * Android Sales to Pass iPhone in 2012 * Shape Shifting Smartphones * Cebit Scales Back (https://secure.nozbe.com/img/nozbe-ad-2.gif) BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. (http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2623879-10522285) (http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-2623879-10522285) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) * Android Sales to Pass iPhone in 2012 * Shape Shifting Smartphones * Cebit Scales Back SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter (javascript:void(0)) (javascript:void(0))(http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg) Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. (http://media.techpodcasts.com/news/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/libsyn.com/media/slashdotreview/SDR2009-03-10.mp3) SDR News Links (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews/SDR2009-03-10) If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews) Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us (http://thumblicio.us/index.php?username=SDRNews) SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST (http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2623879-10513782) Time for a New UI by Andrew McCaskey Time for a UI Change PDF Print E-mail Written by Andrew McCaskey Monday, 09 March 2009 19:57 Netbooks Lead the Way It's awfully easy to become set in your ways, and determine that the best tool for any job is the one that you first learn. Once that preference settles in, your brain and reflexes somehow get patterned into the "one right way" to do a task. We've had about twenty years of conditioning with desktops, icons, and folders, and netbooks are telling us it's time to change. It's with interest that I see this is being challenged by the new Linux based operating systems for Netbooks. And the challenge is to the human factors, not the underlying operating system. Innovators noticed that the restrictions of the netbook - seven inch screen, small keyboard were as much as a driver for change as the relatively underpowered CPU and power / battery life restrictions. They also noted the success of the iPhone's large icons, choosing from among a number of pre-defined common tasks. Thus, systems such as the CloudOS will look a lot more like the iPhone and a lot less like a desktop of any description, Vista, XP or KDE. They are betting that netbooks will be used a lot like mobile phones. If that is the case, the applications will in the main be simple - and if they are fast,easy to read and stable they will more than make up for a lack of variety. On the MacBook, I have gotton a lot of use out of the utility "Hazel" - which main function is to sweep icons representing files and folders off the desktop and into the Documents directory where it is searchable but out of sight. Hazel does it automatically, a service that I gladly pay for on the full capabillity laptop. It will be great to have the same built in to the netbook that's on the purchase list once this recession loosens it's grip. Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network (http://slashdotreview.com/?page_id=878) Intel Envisions Shape Shifting Smartphones Watch Today's Video Episode (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/intel_envisions.html) (/wp-images/YTlogo.gif) Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . (http://www.youtube.com/group/slashdotreview) If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up Andrew McCaskey clean