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Re: The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market

Thorsten Claus — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:35:11 -0000

a few :)
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Re: The Rise Of The Digital Entertainment Market

CD Printers — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:16:00 -0000

Any images of the first movable type print by Johannes Gutenberg?

Re: Text-To-Font Wordpress Plugin

ttf — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:40:29 -0000

thx... great

Re: Plantronics Sucks.

RowdyR3b3l18 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:04:26 -0000

Plantronics does suck. I have gone through so many of their .377 headsets its not even funny. I think I finally learned my lesson after this last pair. On 2 previous pairs the wiring shrunk up and wrapped arounds itself causing it to sever the connection at the plugs and at the volume control. Finally the third pair as soon as I got it out of the box I decided to put electrical tape around those areas to stop that from happening. Well it worked and the pair lasted about 3 months. 1 month longer than any previous pairs until the plastic sliding piece for the earpiece cracked. Now it is held on with packing tape.

Never again.

Re: Plantronics Sucks.

Thorsten Claus — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:38:48 -0000

Yes. Very. Mad. :)

Re: Plantronics Sucks.

da dang V2 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:31:19 -0000

your just mad cause I work for Plantronics and you don't =P

Re: Plantronics Sucks.

Thorsten Claus — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:41:16 -0000

... said -- very politely -- "da dang" from Canada, who did not want to
leave his/her real name.

Re: Plantronics Sucks.

da dang — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:17:43 -0000

worst post ever, your just another pushy consumer/know it all. at least the gentleman was polite and attempted to answer you questions. If the specs are not on their own site where the fawk did you expect him to find them.... his ass. we all know that plantronics product is so high end that 99% of their customers are seeking useless information on specs that really tells you nothing about the overall product, so in summary....

you fail douche bag go spend 800x more on half the product because they list "specs"

Re: The Digital Entertainment Evolution

americanidolepisodes — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:17:34 -0000

this is how entertainment should be. making the viewers get involve with the show... :D

Re: Identity Theft via Trueswitch.com

unknown1234466 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:48:36 -0000

My father informed me this morning of a similar situation. He said he received an email telling him that I had a new email address, which I don't. Words to the wise: Be careful of emails you receive and NEVER give out your personal information. If you get an email that says so and so has changed their email address... ask the person first before sending or changing that contact's information.

Re: Immersive Interactive Internet TV Platforms

Watch TV Shows Online — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:49:29 -0000

I just wanna mention that Yahoo's video player is horrendous. Always glitches. Good luck if you ever wanna click back a few seconds...

Re: "Silicon" Valley gone after 50 years

hhgj — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:55:45 -0000

stupid

Re: WiMax Femto and WiMax Mobile Opportunies

Guest — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:58:59 -0000

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Re: WiMax vs. IEEE 802.11n - In A Nutshell

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Re: Otoy joins the fray of companies offering video games on demand

Thorsten Claus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:46:22 -0000

You're right, the "On Demand" might be misleading. I guess that's my point of the post, that many companies jump onto the band wagon of on-demand, and so do the blogs and citizen journalists. After all, these posts are advertisement funded (amongst other things), and who would read a blog post if its headline doesn't capture your attention? :)
Maybe something like "remote play" or "streaming play" would be more adequate (please no more "cloud gaming"!).

Re: Otoy joins the fray of companies offering video games on demand

Free Games — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:26 -0000

what do you mean when you say games on demand?

Re: Why Mobile Advertisement Itself Doesn’t Make Sense For Carriers

Thorsten Claus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:29:58 -0000

Just a quick note: During the CTIA I got some new thoughts on the $4.86 per year:

1/ The numbers for "mobile advertisment" I heard at the CTIA varied from $600M in 2012 to over $8 billion in 2013. Quite a range, so my research might be wide off.

2/ $4.86 could be a lot more if the market is saturated - if (localized) ads at this point don't increase the churn rate.

3/ $4.86 per year is a lot if the average subscriber revenue per year is $0. Point is: if a non mobile operator is looking for a business model for providing a mobile phone that is purely supported through "add-on" services, this might be one of them. Google could come out with a Google phone (as rumors have it) and have it "subsidized" through WiFi sharing, music, news, eReader, collaboration, cloud storage and backup, and advertisement... Advertising revenues made up 97% of Google revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2009 - about $11b, 53% of that comes from outside the US. If you believe http://www.alexa.com/sitein... statistics, about 35% of all global Internet users visited Google last month, at about 9 pageviews per user per day, and about 141M US users visited Google last month (if you believe the estimates of http://www.quantcast.com/go.... In effect, we're looking at an monthly US ARPU of $6.19 - without any one of us paying for it (other than through the costs of our goods that require Google advertisement to sell... nothing's for free). The resulting annual US ARPU at Google is about $74. we're getting there, with all the book stores and music stores announced...

Re: Project Status Dashboards Best Practice

AngelinaBellew — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:12:57 -0000

I quickly realized that most of these products and blind date uncensored programs were completely useless. Yet the owners were laughing all the way to the bank. Needless to say I didn't respond to them when they asked if I was still interested in buying them out.

Re: The Economics of Cloud – More Than Just Services, Platforms, Infrastructure

Justin Davis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:35:15 -0000

We use Salesforce.com, seems to pretty well for us.

I like your thoughts. Can you send me a link to your other posts?

Justin Davis

Legal Disclaimer: Author does not represent any legal position of Lightspeed Systems Inc. and is the author's opinion only. Lightspeed Systems provides internet filter services to K-12 schools and institutions

Re: Why Mobile Advertisement Itself Doesn’t Make Sense For Carriers

Thorsten Claus — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:18:42 -0000

Jennifer Van Grove published a nice article on Foursquare vs. Twitter Local Advertisement (thanks!). She validates the point about smaller players and the "goldmine" of (local) mobile advertisement:

As a San Diego resident and frequent Foursquare user, I believe that local businesses have an unbelievable opportunity to leverage the advertising program to connect with customers ready to buy. There’s a very dedicated core group of users ready and willing to make our check-ins count for something, and the best part is we’re also an active social bunch, so you could find your coffee shop, bar, hotel, or clothing store the talk of the town both on Foursquare and Twitter. Now that’s smart business.

Re: Project Status Dashboards Best Practice

Olegreze — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:52:52 -0000

Основная задача Яндекса — давать ответы на вопросы пользователей!

Re: Chris Anderson’s Zero-Cost Digital Distribution? Not For Me!

Thorsten Claus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:45 -0000

Hi Pete, Thanks for your comment, and I fully agree! And S3 is of course not really up to par in terms of latency, so no actual real-time data, please :)

One of the common slides that I present says that scale of (real-time and no-so real-time) information logistics is a design problem, no a resource problem.

Re: Chris Anderson’s Zero-Cost Digital Distribution? Not For Me!

Pete Grillo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:07 -0000

There are lots of attractive benefits to SaaS/cloud computing. However the advantages may not be what they first appear to be. The costs, as you point out, are anything but ‘free and getting cheaper’. No denying the cost of storage and bandwidth has continued to drop. Simple math says spreading the fixed costs – startup, development, etc – across a higher number of users equates to lower costs and greater profits.

I wish it were this simple. First, things change as user counts grow. Back-end databases that purr like a kitten act very differently when user counts go up by a 100x increase. Or 10,000x. Look at Twitter, a great service that is well capitalized and still has uptime issues. My point is that data centers don’t run themselves. Development and tuning go on forever. So where do you put employee costs with a hosted system? If you place (hide?) them in development they appear as one-time costs. It could be argued that the staff running a hosted service belongs in COGS. The numbers look very different when you start adding employee costs to the raw storage and bandwidth costs. Still attractive, but not ‘free and getting freer’.

In my experience at iterasi the benefits to SaaS are primarily convenience and version control. It is convenient for a customer to be able to access their account from any computer anywhere in the world. It is convenient for the SaaS provider to deploy products, new features and bug fixes in one place without hoping that all customers get the email or the CD and actually install the patch. Having sold software in a variety of configurations, this one alone makes SaaS the platform architecture of choice.

And, btw, we built our own data center in a co-location facility. Why? Because despite what conventional wisdom tells us, we could not run the number in such a way as to make cloud computing come close to the cost of rolling our own.
pete

Re: Follow Twitter Conversations

felipe — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:30:24 -0000

Check twitalks
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Re: Plantronics Sucks.

sylent1 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:31:30 -0000

Plantronics DOES suck. Look at the people seeking Persono audio control center for their DSP headsets that Plantronics no longer supports nor makes the software available for. I told a friend about the DSP 500 that I use....three months after he bought one they discontinued it and won't tell you where to get the software-without which the headset is worthless.