- Google killed the hyperlink by introducing PageRank. The idea behind PageRank (the more links point to a site, the higher the site’s relevance) makes some of us be suspicious before clicking a link. Why is this link there? Does it provide further information for me or is it just a backlink to increase the target site’s PageRank? Am I’m going to be cheated? Before Google came, hyperlinks provided information and content, not backlinks. Yes, once upon a time, content was the scale for relevance.
- Internet is fun. Social software is even more fun and questioning male ranking concepts is allowed. People, don’t take it too serious!
- The last word on blog-usability isn’t spoken yet. The constantly changing chronological site structure is irritating. And that’s only the beginning.
- In Austrian rural areas you can do solid business while enjoying a relaxing life.
- None of the BarCamp alpha geeks today had an iPhone. The iPhone is an illusion.
- Currently there is no way to make easy money with blogs.
- I support the Free Burma Action because I felt the need to do something. I’m a lucky person, I was born into a world where previous generations already had fought for my rights. I’m deeply impressed by the people in Burma, who stand peacefully up in front of armed soldiers, demanding nothing more than democracy. Something I experienced my entire life as given. Nobody can tell if this action will help, but it’s still better than do nothing and wait what happens next. Thanks to all the valuable input at the Free Burma Session!
- Who’s a blogger, who’s not. Or, does anybody really care about that term?
- Metablogs are out, real life stories are in. Even in the german speaking blogoshpere.
- Note to myself: adjust Facebook application’s privacy settings immediately and change email address annually!
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Congrats to BeeTagg! Their mobile tagging technology is now supported by One, the Austrian mobile carrier recently acquired by Orange.
It was at the BarCamp Vienna in June when I attended a presentation, given by Martin, of BeeTagg. Mobile tagging is somehow the link between the real world and the virtual internet world. By taking a picture of a special graphical code, the BeeTagg in our case, with a cell phone, users are able to retrieve information about a product, location, etc. from the internet. It’s an easy and straight forward solution to provide information online and place a link pointing there at any place in the real world.
E.g. I can add a BeeTagg to my business card which links to this site. It allows users to access my site directly by just taking a picture and without typing in the entire website address.
However, one question remains: what about iPhone support?
[via Mobile Zeitgeist]
TabletBlog covers a well done comparison between Apple’s iPod touch and Nokia’s N800. While reading and watching the video, one thing became clear to me: if I get such a web enabled mobile device, it has to be location aware. I don’t want to enter address strings and zoom and pan on maps until I find my position. I want the mobile web browser knowing my position automatically. I want instantly see content relevant to my current position whenever I open Google maps app or any site offering location aware content and services.
Gizmodo reports about a hack, actually it’s just about loading the Navizon app onto the iPhone, which adds GPS-like functionality (as they call it) to the iPhone. Apparently it’s nothing else then positioning based on cell towers and WiFi access points.
Basically it’s a feature most carriers could easily offer. But at the same time it’s a feature with serious privacy concerns. The question who is in control of and who gains access to people’s location information is a very sensitive one. Sooner or later there has to be a solution, as this will turn out as one of the most important features on mobile devices (yeah, I know, location based services are said to be the killer feature since 1998).
The mentioned Navizon solution still is a hack and not supported by Apple. The Apple iPhone is a closed platform, meaning none other than Apple is allowed to add functionality. In my opinion it’s the main reason for having a closer look at alternatives like the Nokia web tablets. Unlike Apple, Nokia still gives you control over the device you bought.
Michael has an interesting post about an unlocked iPhone running under the Austrian carrier One (recently acquired by French Orange). Hmm, I really wonder whose iPhone this may is…
So there is no reason to sign one of those rumored and ridiculous iPhone mobile plans to get the super gadget.
The German news magazine Focus reports (in the meantime TechCrunch too) that Apple is working on an in-car navigation/entertainment device. According to Focus it’ll be released in 2009, whereas the first 6 months Mercedes Benz apparently has exclusive rights on the device.
Once Apple is working with navigation technology, can we expect some LBS features on the iPhone too?
Everybody talks about it, the much anticipated Apple iPhone!
I just had a quick look at the Quicktime movies on the website and this thing must be a true masterpiece of interaction design! Unfortunately it won’t hit European stores before Q4 2007. So enough time to safe up some gadget-budget for Christmas 2007…
Ok, so rumors turned out to be true and magic iPhone was released today. Not as new fancy Apple gadget though, but as VOIP phone solution made by Linksys. (via heise online)
How great is that!
Still, I’m wondering if Apple doesn’t own any imaginable iYouNameIt patent…
Just impressing how a one-liner manages going up on digg. No need for reporting about uninteresting details like features or something. Magic iPhone markets itself.
Sure, there is a good chance that it’ll come nicely designed, probably having an interesting usability too. But still, it’ll be a phone.
What do people expect of wonderPhone?
What would I expect of a new phone?
Actually I would like to see more or less the same features my phone already has (how un-fancy and boring!), but easier accessible by an improved user interface and usability:
- all my contacts and friends with every contact detail, quickly search able
- calendar, with better editing features
- messaging – email, sms, im, blog – with improved writing features, I don’t like writing messages on the phone at all
- a good camera and display with easy upload – flickr, blogging, etc. – features
- request: gps enabled with routing and other location based services
- request: music, replacing my iPod nano by a phone would be great
- request: wifi enabled, would like to use VOIP and faster web access
- constraint: size and battery life must remain at least the same.
There is probably some room left for improvements in the mobile phone business. But I heavily doubt it’ll be a revolutionary new Apple gadget. Well, lets see what comes out of Apple’s pipe (if there is something in…).
Just my 2 cents on the iPhone hype.