weird that the post here mentioned germany AND the UK but the numbers given are the German ones - was there an ASSUMPTION that the UK would mirror US hype? even tho' the UK is the most heavily-subsidized handset market in the EU (and maybe the world)??
http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=750 has pix of the windy absence of such crowds at opening...
lots of the best ones were MOTW eps anyway
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the whole mythology arc lost all relevance after One Son anyway - so no loss there
and many of the greatest episodes were Monster of the Week ones anyway - even some of the very best mythology-arc eps (like Conduit) were all about showing us both the personas of mulder and scully and the ordinary characters involved in the military/alien stuff, not about any revelations of the mysteries of the mythology itself
it's just going to be a bit weird to have mulder and scully TOGETHER now, having had li'l william & all that
course i guess that's just new ground for a different sort of tension, as is having the whole aliens' thing more BEHIND them now
but, what, they've gone from being on the run and mulder's being a fugitive from a military prison to being at the FBI again? or non-FBI folks now? or...?
and what the right honorable Cdr. Taco said re the lame closedness and storage dinkiness
especially seeing's how anyone with an xbox360, Wii, or PS3 (so, let's see, like 17M folks so far) can get anything they play on their PC (anything in any format on their PC hard drive, anything in any format they play from da intaweb on their PC) on their TV - long's they've got the free Orb software on that PC.
hmm: free software that gets everything onto the TV; slick but crazy-limited hardware device that gets some of my PC content and none of my web content onto the TV
seriously, though, isn't it likely that the answer to the once-nauseatingly-ubiquitous ("bingo!" for those of you playing buzzword-bingo as you read down the page) question about What Will Be The Digital Hub of your networked life? is: the PC?
in this week of PS3 price-shock, it seems even more ridiculous than it once did to think that the PS() woulda/coulda/shoulda been the Hub
i'm biased, definitely, since i work at http://www.orb.com/ but still i think the idea that some other device is going to become the hub, when the PC has all this processing power, huge footprint, strong extendability, is comic - and there are lots of folks making the PC something more in the background than it ever was before
anyone else remember that ill-fated sony software pvr from 5 years ago, that got rolled into the airboard-renamed-locationfreeTV?
if that had been offered EVERYWHERE rather than on vaio only, would've beaten the MCE to the punch by a fair bit
now, however...
interesting mod, btw, if you've already set up tivotogo, over at dvreverywhere.com (i hear it was tivoanywhere until tivo decided that it was time to stop embracing their mod community)
in addition to all the IM communities adding voice, now that the gazillions eBay paid for skype has validated (i guess) software-based VOIP, there's this whole rash of stuff coming out now to send asynchronous voice messages over the Cloud (podomatic, waxmail, slawesome, V4S, the feature in MSN Messenger, et cetera ad nauseum)
of all of the non-network ones so far the one that seems coolest is V4S http://www.orb.com/skype because of the way it makes email and skype contacts remotely available to me through firefox and how i can send voice messages INTO SKYPE or over email - no more need to get into it. just send the voice message. i can do it from my bloody PHONE, why shouldn't i be able to do that through software-based VOIP??
and if the festoon guys could integrate with Gtalk, and with all the APIs for Triton and ICQ now... yeah. bring on the uber availability, baby! anywhere to everyone!
true enough - but it's the WHY that matters in this, i think. which is that i've already paid - not to OWN the content, fine, i've paid for a license to ACCESS the content, and this is one more protest, i guess, against the balkanization of content licenses...
once you can listen to cellular-radio music in your car.
you can do that today. for free.
http://www.orb.com/ and go to the Custom Channels thing in Setup -> Audio to add any of your Net Radio faves (say, hypothetically, the stuff at http://www.somafm.org/)
i already get all the tunes i want for free on my cingular phone - and i mean ALL: everything i have at home already, everything i listen to on internet radio (mostly the kickass stuff over at http://www.somafm.org/), everything in the Virgin Digital library of, what, 2M songs.
oh, right, and all my podcasts
for free
why do these guys think i'm going to be willing to pay AGAIN for music just because the device is different? once you've put the Web on a device (and, ok, a streaming player that's got access to any URL), i'm done
what i'm wondering is: do you think that local storage will be like 80% or 50% of the way you get your stuff to your phone in a year's time?
the orb freeware http://www.orb.com/ STREAMS my stuff to me, local or online somewhere - transcoding it on the fly to adapt to my at-the-moment bitrate and default media player. for Net radio while driving, that's killer. but what about stuff that's at home? i haven't got a huge-ass memory disk for my phone yet...
mobi's cool, definitely - but me, i prefer getting all the channels i've got at home, without paying an extra fee to get SOME of those channels AGAIN on my mobile phone
also, if i have a blazing EVDO connection, then i should be able to take advantage of it
which is why i use the freeware at http://www.orb.com/ that turns my home PC into a streaming media server, transcoding my media (e.g. my tuner card's MPEG-2s) on the fly to the appropriate format, at the maximum bitrate i can handle right then - all accessed through the Web browser and my native streaming media player; only software install is at home
so, if you want to STREAM your content from your home-PC-turned-personal-media-server, say, using a piece of free-as-in-beer software from Orb, can you do THAT without violating the DMCA?
yupp
as some of you know, Virgin are working with us (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT =104&STORY=/www/story/09-28-2005/0004133661&EDATE/) to ensure you can get the content you've purchased through them (which is WM10 DRMed) streamed for free from your home (WinXP) PC to ANY device with a Web browser and a streaming audio player: mobile phones, PDAs, Linux, Mac, Wintel lappers and boxes
this works cuz we're part of the WM10 licensing program
but THERE'S NO LICENSING PROGRAM for the so-called FairPlay DRM from our friends in Cupertino
this is beyond ridiculous - the DMCA should AT MINIMUM require that there be a licensing program for every DRM paradigm
but as several of you above have said, there's NO pressure for this to happen that Congress or the USCO is likely to notice
someone suggested to me last week that there ought to be a one-week boycott on iTunes Music Store in order to raise visibility about this, but my reaction was, why would that make ANY difference??
i mean, fun stunt, right? but come onnnnn...
as (of all people, and i can't even believe i'm quoting him, really) alan greenspan even said a couple years back (i'm too lazy to google the link, but y'all kind find it easily), the existing paradigms of IP law, conceived during an economic era overwhelmingly concerned with the production of physical goods, are moving from being ENABLERS of economic growth (read: innovation, both in product and in channel) to being FETTERS on economic growth
weird times when the head of the Fed and former member of ayn rand's inner circle is sounding like a frosh quoting from The German Ideology about the relations of production fettering the forces of production...
which all comes back to why the USCO should insist that the DMCA at the VERY LEAST require a licensing program, to ensure that existing channels of use and therefore of value-generation aren't the ONLY things enabled
To me, sharing bookmarks with myself across multiple computers is the main attraction of Flock.
actually, there's already an MPLed add-on to Orb that lets you do THAT (plus access them from any browser on any device) over at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orbaddons
for me, Flock is cool because of how it pulls it all together - feels less like it's a whole new browser based on mozilla than "just" mozilla with a pre-set bunch of cool extensions, you know?
which is kind of the point
i haven't tried this yet... anyone know whether there're any weirdnesses in accessing URLs, rtsp or mms streams, etc. from the location free player on the PSP?
i seem to remember someone hacking the AIBO a couple years back (i mean, it did have 802.11b support, a camera, etc.)
anyone know of where to track this down? thinking of this way you could command your AIBO to do stuff from a remote location
my fave random AIBO thing was this prototype unveiled at STEF '03 that had "digital olfactory" capability - when i asked whether that was so that, you know, you could send the dog into areas that a human or animal couldn't go, the answer was, "um, no: it's a dog. it needs to be able to smell."
obviously i'm happy Orb got in the list, even at #50 (hey, Flickr was #51)
but "streaming service," though accurate in its description of the DELIVERY mechanism for your media, has never felt to me like it captures the true positioning of Orb - which is the use of the Web as your interface to all your stuff.
No. Client. Software.
If you've got the Web and a streaming player on a device (and you've got our tiny piece of Orb software on your always-connected PC to act as your personal server), you've got access to the media you want - Orb will do the format/bitrate/screen-res adaptation on the fly to make sure you can get an experience appropriate to your accessing device at that exact moment
but as i'll be unveiling at Web2.0 this wednesday the next level of the Orb vision - and its about access and control in ways that don't have much to do with STREAMING (there's a hint for what sorta control i'm talking about in http://www.tivoanywhere.com/)
how would YOU folks name what we do? "Web-based access and control" seems a bit... unwieldy
yeah, annoyingly, this legally-enforced perspective - that every content purchase is actually a purchase of a license to a content experience, and as technology gets over more advanced, the boundaries of that experience can be drawn ever-more-sharply - is exactly why over at http://www.orb.com/ we can neither:
- let you stream ALL the content YOU'VE ALREADY BOUGHT (e.g. iTunes, Rhapsody stuff, etc.) to yourself alone on another device (you can stream any NON-DRM'ed content to yourself from your home PC [WinXP only right now, Linux in Nov, Mac in Dec] to any Web-connected device with a streaming audio player; "any" because of how Orb automagically "shape-shifts" on the fly the content from the format/bitrate/screen-resolution it has on your home PC to whatever format/bitrate/screen-resolution is appropriate for your accessing device)
nor
- let you share streams of SONGS you've created in, say, SONAR or ACID (it's just too dangerous, given the current climate; so we only let you share pictures and share STREAMS of your home videos, since the ratio there of legit home content to bittorrented BG episodes is in our favor, plus is the MPAA really going to suggest that the 4M+ folks who'll buy a camcorder this year can't legitimately share a stream of a baby video with a parent?)
fun adventures within the ultraworld of the content industry, for sure
so how long before we get a skype toolbar for opera?
i'm looking for opera-using beta testers over the weekend for a free-as-in-beer skype voicemail product - access is via a browser from any device with a streaming audio player after you download the software on an always-connected WinXP box
email v4sbeta@orb.com if you're up for helping out
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weird that the post here mentioned germany AND the UK but the numbers given are the German ones - was there an ASSUMPTION that the UK would mirror US hype? even tho' the UK is the most heavily-subsidized handset market in the EU (and maybe the world)?? http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=750 has pix of the windy absence of such crowds at opening...
the whole mythology arc lost all relevance after One Son anyway - so no loss there
and many of the greatest episodes were Monster of the Week ones anyway - even some of the very best mythology-arc eps (like Conduit) were all about showing us both the personas of mulder and scully and the ordinary characters involved in the military/alien stuff, not about any revelations of the mysteries of the mythology itself
it's just going to be a bit weird to have mulder and scully TOGETHER now, having had li'l william & all that
course i guess that's just new ground for a different sort of tension, as is having the whole aliens' thing more BEHIND them now
but, what, they've gone from being on the run and mulder's being a fugitive from a military prison to being at the FBI again? or non-FBI folks now? or...?
word what jdray said re DivX
and what the right honorable Cdr. Taco said re the lame closedness and storage dinkiness
especially seeing's how anyone with an xbox360, Wii, or PS3 (so, let's see, like 17M folks so far) can get anything they play on their PC (anything in any format on their PC hard drive, anything in any format they play from da intaweb on their PC) on their TV - long's they've got the free Orb software on that PC.
hmm: free software that gets everything onto the TV; slick but crazy-limited hardware device that gets some of my PC content and none of my web content onto the TV
uh...
i can't believe no one's said that yet
seriously, though, isn't it likely that the answer to the once-nauseatingly-ubiquitous ("bingo!" for those of you playing buzzword-bingo as you read down the page) question about What Will Be The Digital Hub of your networked life? is: the PC?
in this week of PS3 price-shock, it seems even more ridiculous than it once did to think that the PS() woulda/coulda/shoulda been the Hub
i'm biased, definitely, since i work at http://www.orb.com/ but still i think the idea that some other device is going to become the hub, when the PC has all this processing power, huge footprint, strong extendability, is comic - and there are lots of folks making the PC something more in the background than it ever was before
now if only apple would license its OS...
How is it that the article acts as though selling a GAMING CONSOLE, of all hardware devices, is a one-off revenue event for Sony???
and, oh, right: let's you actually PLAY your content streamed to whatever Web device you're on
transcoded on the fly to the appropriate bitrate and format
free
http://www.dvreverywhere.com/
anyone else remember that ill-fated sony software pvr from 5 years ago, that got rolled into the airboard-renamed-locationfreeTV?
if that had been offered EVERYWHERE rather than on vaio only, would've beaten the MCE to the punch by a fair bit
now, however...
interesting mod, btw, if you've already set up tivotogo, over at dvreverywhere.com (i hear it was tivoanywhere until tivo decided that it was time to stop embracing their mod community)
in addition to all the IM communities adding voice, now that the gazillions eBay paid for skype has validated (i guess) software-based VOIP, there's this whole rash of stuff coming out now to send asynchronous voice messages over the Cloud (podomatic, waxmail, slawesome, V4S, the feature in MSN Messenger, et cetera ad nauseum)
of all of the non-network ones so far the one that seems coolest is V4S http://www.orb.com/skype because of the way it makes email and skype contacts remotely available to me through firefox and how i can send voice messages INTO SKYPE or over email - no more need to get into it. just send the voice message. i can do it from my bloody PHONE, why shouldn't i be able to do that through software-based VOIP??
and if the festoon guys could integrate with Gtalk, and with all the APIs for Triton and ICQ now... yeah. bring on the uber availability, baby! anywhere to everyone!
true enough - but it's the WHY that matters in this, i think. which is that i've already paid - not to OWN the content, fine, i've paid for a license to ACCESS the content, and this is one more protest, i guess, against the balkanization of content licenses...
control of the TiVo and streaming of the content right from the box (series2 from TiVo itself only): http://www.dvreverywhere.com/
i already get all the tunes i want for free on my cingular phone - and i mean ALL: everything i have at home already, everything i listen to on internet radio (mostly the kickass stuff over at http://www.somafm.org/), everything in the Virgin Digital library of, what, 2M songs.
oh, right, and all my podcasts
for free
why do these guys think i'm going to be willing to pay AGAIN for music just because the device is different? once you've put the Web on a device (and, ok, a streaming player that's got access to any URL), i'm done
what i'm wondering is: do you think that local storage will be like 80% or 50% of the way you get your stuff to your phone in a year's time?
the orb freeware http://www.orb.com/ STREAMS my stuff to me, local or online somewhere - transcoding it on the fly to adapt to my at-the-moment bitrate and default media player. for Net radio while driving, that's killer. but what about stuff that's at home? i haven't got a huge-ass memory disk for my phone yet...
mobi's cool, definitely - but me, i prefer getting all the channels i've got at home, without paying an extra fee to get SOME of those channels AGAIN on my mobile phone
also, if i have a blazing EVDO connection, then i should be able to take advantage of it
which is why i use the freeware at http://www.orb.com/ that turns my home PC into a streaming media server, transcoding my media (e.g. my tuner card's MPEG-2s) on the fly to the appropriate format, at the maximum bitrate i can handle right then - all accessed through the Web browser and my native streaming media player; only software install is at home
that's Web2.0 for you, baby!
whole point of the freeware over at www.orb.com
it'll be verrrrrry interesting to see how the battle shakes out between Pay Twice vs. Leverage Your Existing Investments
i'll get to that. gimme a build-up moment here...
T =104&STORY=/www/story/09-28-2005/0004133661&EDATE/ ) to ensure you can get the content you've purchased through them (which is WM10 DRMed) streamed for free from your home (WinXP) PC to ANY device with a Web browser and a streaming audio player: mobile phones, PDAs, Linux, Mac, Wintel lappers and boxes
so, if you want to STREAM your content from your home-PC-turned-personal-media-server, say, using a piece of free-as-in-beer software from Orb, can you do THAT without violating the DMCA?
yupp
as some of you know, Virgin are working with us (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACC
this works cuz we're part of the WM10 licensing program
but THERE'S NO LICENSING PROGRAM for the so-called FairPlay DRM from our friends in Cupertino
this is beyond ridiculous - the DMCA should AT MINIMUM require that there be a licensing program for every DRM paradigm
but as several of you above have said, there's NO pressure for this to happen that Congress or the USCO is likely to notice
someone suggested to me last week that there ought to be a one-week boycott on iTunes Music Store in order to raise visibility about this, but my reaction was, why would that make ANY difference??
i mean, fun stunt, right? but come onnnnn...
as (of all people, and i can't even believe i'm quoting him, really) alan greenspan even said a couple years back (i'm too lazy to google the link, but y'all kind find it easily), the existing paradigms of IP law, conceived during an economic era overwhelmingly concerned with the production of physical goods, are moving from being ENABLERS of economic growth (read: innovation, both in product and in channel) to being FETTERS on economic growth
weird times when the head of the Fed and former member of ayn rand's inner circle is sounding like a frosh quoting from The German Ideology about the relations of production fettering the forces of production...
which all comes back to why the USCO should insist that the DMCA at the VERY LEAST require a licensing program, to ensure that existing channels of use and therefore of value-generation aren't the ONLY things enabled
i haven't tried this yet... anyone know whether there're any weirdnesses in accessing URLs, rtsp or mms streams, etc. from the location free player on the PSP?
i seem to remember someone hacking the AIBO a couple years back (i mean, it did have 802.11b support, a camera, etc.)
anyone know of where to track this down? thinking of this way you could command your AIBO to do stuff from a remote location
my fave random AIBO thing was this prototype unveiled at STEF '03 that had "digital olfactory" capability - when i asked whether that was so that, you know, you could send the dog into areas that a human or animal couldn't go, the answer was, "um, no: it's a dog. it needs to be able to smell."
nice
obviously i'm happy Orb got in the list, even at #50 (hey, Flickr was #51)
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but "streaming service," though accurate in its description of the DELIVERY mechanism for your media, has never felt to me like it captures the true positioning of Orb - which is the use of the Web as your interface to all your stuff.
No. Client. Software.
If you've got the Web and a streaming player on a device (and you've got our tiny piece of Orb software on your always-connected PC to act as your personal server), you've got access to the media you want - Orb will do the format/bitrate/screen-res adaptation on the fly to make sure you can get an experience appropriate to your accessing device at that exact moment
today, that pretty much means your media at home and on the Cloud, for example: http://www.streamingmedia.com/press/view.asp?id=3
but as i'll be unveiling at Web2.0 this wednesday the next level of the Orb vision - and its about access and control in ways that don't have much to do with STREAMING (there's a hint for what sorta control i'm talking about in http://www.tivoanywhere.com/)
how would YOU folks name what we do? "Web-based access and control" seems a bit... unwieldy
yeah, annoyingly, this legally-enforced perspective - that every content purchase is actually a purchase of a license to a content experience, and as technology gets over more advanced, the boundaries of that experience can be drawn ever-more-sharply - is exactly why over at http://www.orb.com/ we can neither:
- let you stream ALL the content YOU'VE ALREADY BOUGHT (e.g. iTunes, Rhapsody stuff, etc.) to yourself alone on another device (you can stream any NON-DRM'ed content to yourself from your home PC [WinXP only right now, Linux in Nov, Mac in Dec] to any Web-connected device with a streaming audio player; "any" because of how Orb automagically "shape-shifts" on the fly the content from the format/bitrate/screen-resolution it has on your home PC to whatever format/bitrate/screen-resolution is appropriate for your accessing device)
nor
- let you share streams of SONGS you've created in, say, SONAR or ACID (it's just too dangerous, given the current climate; so we only let you share pictures and share STREAMS of your home videos, since the ratio there of legit home content to bittorrented BG episodes is in our favor, plus is the MPAA really going to suggest that the 4M+ folks who'll buy a camcorder this year can't legitimately share a stream of a baby video with a parent?)
fun adventures within the ultraworld of the content industry, for sure
so how long before we get a skype toolbar for opera?
i'm looking for opera-using beta testers over the weekend for a free-as-in-beer skype voicemail product - access is via a browser from any device with a streaming audio player after you download the software on an always-connected WinXP box
email v4sbeta@orb.com if you're up for helping out
isn't that what nikon + orb (www.orb.com) gets you?
anyone know whether this camera shoots MPEG-1 video?
... the VIIV of November
kinda, yah
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and looks like vLogcasting is going mobile: http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/08/or