Factory Factory

2009-10-25

Serendipity is becoming more and more important. You have to be able to find things you didn’t even know existed — it becomes more and more critical to your success. From my perspective, it’s more about serendipitous encounters with people, though, than information.

— John Hagel, a well-known author and co-chairman of Deloitte & Touche USA’s Silicon Valley-based research center.

2009-10-18

The freemium model, with roots in Asia, is built on the concept of giving away games, then charging players 25 cents to $10 to buy so-called virtual goods that enhance their gaming experience.

— Really? Asia? No mention of 37Signals? “For social networks, it’s game on” - USATODAY.com

You agree that Apple and its subsidiaries and agents may collect, maintain, process and use diagnostic, technical and related information, including but not limited to information about your computer, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support and other services to you (if any) related to the Apple Software, and to verify compliance with the terms of this License. Apple may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve our products or to provide services or technologies to you.

—From Apple’s software license agreement for Snow Leopard

2009-09-06

Streamnets are ad-hoc networks created by Spimes or other sensor based machines in order to advertise their activity streams onto the Internet. These networks don’t need to be online all the time, don’t require high bandwidth, and will use any existing communications technology, most probably wireless through GSM or even other types of RF for shorter or longer distances.

Streamnets are not supposed to be two-way channels, but rather pipes where the machines will dispatch fire-and-forget information about their activities. At the other end of these pipes there will be activity stream aggregators, indexing, munching and filtering all information sent by the machines.

Occasionally, the machines will want to read information from the Streamnet. To do it, they’ll publish a request at an aggregator that will obtain the requested information. The machine keeps polling the aggregator at given intervals of time, until the information is finally available.

— Bruno Pedro on ”Streamnets”

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marco writes:

And, since very little of this is exciting enough to justify an entire event, I’m assuming that the main focus of the event will be a new version of iTunes and new content accessibility, such as iPhone TV rentals.

But I’m thinking this event is all about Apple’s new media format, hinted at previously, that will allow for interesting new ways to both publish and consume music on Apple devices… so what about the devices? This time it’ll be about the content!

2009-08-30

The thing is that we don’t know what activities, are a waste of time until we waste some time pursuing them. Then there’s the converse when an apparent distraction turns out to be valuable. I thought Twitter was a simple distraction from more serious efforts when I first started. It turned out those more serious efforts were in fact the distraction.

— Shel Israel, Does Multitasking impair real learning?

2009-08-15

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