it took them only 12 days to get to $50,000 so it wasn't that hard for them to raise the initial money, albeit i think they need to amp up their marketing.
how about we start a 'fans' sellaband capital raising for this.
I am sure there are more than 1 million fans who would put up $200 to be a part shareholder.
If it's good enugh for Public Enemy and their new album why not>
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/public-enemy-sellaband.html
Cheers,
dean
Will it have a virtual keyboard though?
I cant wait for these to be released to use for watching baseball games and chatting on http://www.livebaseballchat.com/ but the only problem is that with a netbook and wifi i'm not sure what additional value this is going to be offering.
I think i'd miss the keyboard for typing.
Cheers,
Dean
I mean we go to all the effort to secure passwords, code tc - then our users are infected with ads they view....
We were sourcing our banner ads from Pubmatic but after a two 'problem ads' about 3 weeks I've cut it back to Google + banners we sell internall direct to end companies.
I dont have any answers but if you have a problem with a website be sure to let the content owners know - they might not even realise they have a problem.
Citysense "CitySense is attempting to use real time location data from those who download its client software as well as GPS enabled cabs and other "sensors." The goal is a near real time thematic map of activity in the city."
Eg. go and download this application and we'll mash it up with some other data to tell you where people are.
Cool concept but the issue of "data access" is the real killer here. Getting access to "where handsets are" is the real problem....and carriers are stuck in the mud about sharing.
I've seen some really great web services but these all rely in some form of another from opt-in services which suffer from "inertia issues".
but none of these 'subsidised the end user'. So i think there needs to be a new solution the same way there is for Virgin SugarMama Minutes - so the proposal is this, allow your cell phone to be 'tracked' and data from this to be sold to anonymized data services like Citysense in return for a 10% reduction in your cell phone costs.
BUT the carriers cant sell your location data without you signing up for this program. I know that for $10-15 a month discount I dont care if you use my location data, but if you are selling it and I dont get anything from it then I'm pissed.
Just look at what happened with BT and Phorm, they could have got that adopted in like 1 month if they paid people for their data, lol wouldn't have cost more than a few glass beads like wallpapers or mp3 downloads etc. They just chose to take the easy route.
Lol I love this comment
http://www.citysense.com/moreInfo.php "The company plans to profit primarily from business clients purchasing deeper data from the Macrosense platform; Citysense and all future consumer applications are intended to be strictly icing on the cake".
In other words we got some vc funding and we are going to work out later how to make money.
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM To: Dean Collins; Subject: Re: And so now it begins......
What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance? ----
Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).
Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.
Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.
The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.
After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?
Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash.....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic.....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this......Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....
Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.
As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.
to be honest most of it went over my head but yes it used an isotope to power it, they had sold some samples to lockheed for continuous ciruit running for 20+ years etc at $2000 a pop.
one of the points they were making was they could power a pacemake for 20+ years now with this battery, my question was didn't radiation cause problems but apprently not.
Cheers,
Dean
interesting, I was at the East Coast DFJ venture capital competition a few weeks ago where one of the contestants was a 'radiation based' battery that lasted 20+ years, these two things together could drive a circuit forever.
(sorry dont have links).
Dean
What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance? ---
Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).
Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.
Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.
The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.
After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?
Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash.....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic.....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this......Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....
Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.
As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.
This Facebook group is to provide a resource for the debate about "The great 'Firewall of Cuomo'
Imagine if you went into work on monday and only 8 out of every 1000 websites you saved in your browsers favourites folder was deemed 'cuomo' friendly?
I was asked this question and I thought my reply about 8 out of every 1000 websites in your favorites folder was a good way of getting the message across.
Cheers, Dean
From: Pip Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 1:34 PM To: Dean Collins Subject: Fw: And so now it begins......
I am not sure I get your particular beef on this one
Child pornography is pretty well agreed upon by all to be illegal and much much worse
Mind you I am well well well well known as very angry at the telco companies and their lobbying power but I don't see a beef here... If anything I see govt legislators jumping in to do something regulators never ever would have
Am I missing something in THIS case?
Otherwise I don't see this as some new "worsening"
All views welcomed Pip
Hi Pip, Yep, the beef is that Verizon have drop 99.7% of the "alt." newsgroups that have nothing to do with child porn.
So newsgroups like us.military , microsoft.public.excel, fr.soc.economie are also being dropped.
Verizon have made an editorial decision to carry only 8 out of 1000+ news group hierarchies. To put it a different way, imagine opening up your browser on Monday morning and finding only 8 out of every thousand websites you had in your Favourites folder available to you.
The rest had been excised from your access not by 'law', but purely by editorial judgment.
Do you think Andrew Cuomo an elected official has the right to do that to you?
yep verizon TOS suck - you wont catch me moving to them until they actually allow you to run applications that are going to make use of the extra bandwidth.
Alphacool silent stars rock. I own 3 of these and the 4th server in my rack (without one) makes more noise than the rest combined (just waiting for some other parts befoe I can watercool everything in the 4th pc as well.
Unfortunately the $100 for the Silent star is just the start as you then need to buy pumps/rads etc but for $500 you can have a silent pc (or spend the extra $250 for a water cooled power supply and have a really cool - extremely quiet pc).
Check out www.collins.net.pr/blog if you want to read more about some of the other water cooled stuff I have.
Go read up on Zfone.
You can already do encryption with all Asterisk calls by preconfiguration however my company Mexuar also has the ability to do on the fly browser based calls using our Corraleta PRO SDK
Basically use any java compliant browser to place a RSA encrypted call from that browser through to an Asterisk server on the fly:)
Cheers,
Dean
New York
http://www.mexuar.com/contactus.shtml
No we got the e3 because we supported the war on terror in such a big public way, i almost felt guilty considering applying for one of these because of the FUBAR in the middle east.
having said that....I got approved on a L2 as my spouse is on a L1.
it's interesting seeing how difficult it is to apply to a H1 knowing that the 10,5000 E3's didn't even come close to all being applied for last year (I think i heard through the NY Advance group that they filled about half of them).
I guess aussies are smart enough to know that they are on a good thing back home (lol- yes I like living here in New York but I love living in Sydney).
Yep, when I read the actual patent there were a number of points in there where I thought thats a cool idea BUT nothing in there was patent worth and non obvious.
it sounds like CC were stopping people recording live concerts which is just totally wrong.
i think thats the problem with so many patents that they overstep the bounds of what is actually unique.
i dont know why these companies incorporate in the first place if they are worried about being sued.
you incorporate a company for each event with $1 assets and liquidate after each show. big deal.
only way to get presentations pulled then is through injunction before the event.
Dean
Slashdot Mirror
lol if you are going to insert your own tv ads make sure you insert one of mine... :)
http://www.livefootballchat.com/chat/mysuperbowlcommercial.do
Motorola Droid rocks - the ketboard sucks compared to a htc but the benefits far out the negatives.
When is someone going to open up a multiplatform mobile appstore? Ex. http://iphone.mobileappstore.com/ and http://windows.mobileappstore.com/ If a particular manufacturer wanted something they could set up http://samsung.mobileappstore.com/ what do you think? Cheers, Dean
it took them only 12 days to get to $50,000 so it wasn't that hard for them to raise the initial money, albeit i think they need to amp up their marketing.
how about we start a 'fans' sellaband capital raising for this. I am sure there are more than 1 million fans who would put up $200 to be a part shareholder. If it's good enugh for Public Enemy and their new album why not> http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/public-enemy-sellaband.html Cheers, dean
Will it have a virtual keyboard though? I cant wait for these to be released to use for watching baseball games and chatting on http://www.livebaseballchat.com/ but the only problem is that with a netbook and wifi i'm not sure what additional value this is going to be offering. I think i'd miss the keyboard for typing. Cheers, Dean
I'm actually suprised how little press attention has been paid to this court ruling. This could be a very very big thing if applied to other digital content. http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/cloudification-of-your-content.html
As a content provider (I'm the founder of http://www.livebaseballchat.com/ stuff like this annoys the hell out of me.
I mean we go to all the effort to secure passwords, code tc - then our users are infected with ads they view....
We were sourcing our banner ads from Pubmatic but after a two 'problem ads' about 3 weeks I've cut it back to Google + banners we sell internall direct to end companies.
I dont have any answers but if you have a problem with a website be sure to let the content owners know - they might not even realise they have a problem.
Cheers,
Dean Collins
http://www.livebaseballchat.com/
Citysense
"CitySense is attempting to use real time location data from those who download its client software as well as GPS enabled cabs and other "sensors." The goal is a near real time thematic map of activity in the city."
Eg. go and download this application and we'll mash it up with some other data to tell you where people are.
Cool concept but the issue of "data access" is the real killer here. Getting access to "where handsets are" is the real problem....and carriers are stuck in the mud about sharing.
I've seen some really great web services but these all rely in some form of another from opt-in services which suffer from "inertia issues".
There have been some traffic related cell phone projects like http://www.physorg.com/news76178303.html and http://www.edmunds.com/ownership/audio/articles/123531/article.html
but none of these 'subsidised the end user'. So i think there needs to be a new solution the same way there is for Virgin SugarMama Minutes - so the proposal is this, allow your cell phone to be 'tracked' and data from this to be sold to anonymized data services like Citysense in return for a 10% reduction in your cell phone costs.
BUT the carriers cant sell your location data without you signing up for this program. I know that for $10-15 a month discount I dont care if you use my location data, but if you are selling it and I dont get anything from it then I'm pissed.
Just look at what happened with BT and Phorm, they could have got that adopted in like 1 month if they paid people for their data, lol wouldn't have cost more than a few glass beads like wallpapers or mp3 downloads etc. They just chose to take the easy route.
Lol I love this comment
http://www.citysense.com/moreInfo.php
"The company plans to profit primarily from business clients purchasing deeper data from the Macrosense platform; Citysense and all future consumer applications are intended to be strictly icing on the cake".
In other words we got some vc funding and we are going to work out later how to make money.
Cheers,
Dean
P.S. If location apps "float your boat" then you might also like to check out Cityware a bluetooth application I blogged about last year.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/cityware-facebook-bluetooth-application.html
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM
....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic. ....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this. .....Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....
To: Dean Collins;
Subject: Re: And so now it begins......
What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance?
----
Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).
Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.
Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.
The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.
After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?
Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash.
If you want to hear from people who are far better at explaining this check out http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/net-neutrality.html
Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.
As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.
But what do I know, I'm just a disgruntled geek.
Cheers,
Dean
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22212833295
to be honest most of it went over my head but yes it used an isotope to power it, they had sold some samples to lockheed for continuous ciruit running for 20+ years etc at $2000 a pop. one of the points they were making was they could power a pacemake for 20+ years now with this battery, my question was didn't radiation cause problems but apprently not. Cheers, Dean
interesting, I was at the East Coast DFJ venture capital competition a few weeks ago where one of the contestants was a 'radiation based' battery that lasted 20+ years, these two things together could drive a circuit forever. (sorry dont have links). Dean
my point about only 8 out of 1000 websites was an analogy.
....now lets move onto the juicy bits. - That pesky Vonage traffic is travelling over our users networks and Verizon don't make any money form this, lets start blocking that traffic. ....You like watching video's from Netflix using their Roku internet set-top box, cool we'll just have to charge you for this. .....Listening to a radio station that isn't in the Time Warner 'family', sorry this is tier 2 internet class traffic so the audio might be a little jittery from time to time, sorry about that.....
sorry you didn't get the link.
maybe the post below will help you get the point
Cheers,
Dean
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-so-now-it-begins.html
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 4:49 PM
To: Dean Collins;
Subject: Re: And so now it begins......
What motivation would they have to do that? Just dumb or nefarious in this instance?
---
Andrew Cuomo - gets press, and to be seen to be doing something, (probably being advised by people who have 'ulterior motives' and he's too stupid to know the difference).
Verizon - heaps of reasons; far too many - but here's my interpretation.
Usenet is an ancient 'spooky' space on the internet that no one but geeks and porn swapping perverts visit, by blocking 99.7% of UseNet's under the guise of getting rid of kiddy porn Verizon are able to establish a precedent that 'managing' internet access for the betterment of society is a good thing.
The thin edge of the wedge has been struck.
After that it's easy to start blocking off entire country domains, I mean no one has any good reason for reading blogs in Iran correct?
Ok now lets move to something that some people will care about but with 2 sets of prior acts Verizon will be covered. Lets block all P2P traffic, I mean P2P is only used by people swapping pirated music and video's - yes some 5% of the population may complain but most of them will be kids and not voters so we should be able to cover any publicity backlash.
If you want to hear from people who are far better at explaining this check out http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/net-neutrality.html
Like I said it all started with some dumb politician who had probably never used Newsgroups before and had some carrier stooge whisper something into his ear about 'think of the children'......the rest is history.
As a society we should be strong enough to accept that any technology solution to a society problem will never work and any politicians who suggest otherwise are either too dumb to be making that decision (e.g. swallowed a story from a lobbyist) or is acting in coercion.
But what do I know, I'm just a disgruntled geek.
Cheers,
Dean
This Facebook group is to provide a resource for the debate about "The great 'Firewall of Cuomo'
Imagine if you went into work on Monday and only 8 out of every 1000 websites you saved in your browsers favorites folder was deemed 'cuomo' friendly?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22212833295
This Facebook group is to provide a resource for the debate about "The great 'Firewall of Cuomo'
Imagine if you went into work on monday and only 8 out of every 1000 websites you saved in your browsers favourites folder was deemed 'cuomo' friendly?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22212833295
I was asked this question and I thought my reply about 8 out of every 1000 websites in your favorites folder was a good way of getting the message across.
Cheers,
Dean
From: Pip
Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2008 1:34 PM
To: Dean Collins
Subject: Fw: And so now it begins......
I am not sure I get your particular beef on this one
Child pornography is pretty well agreed upon by all to be illegal and much much worse
Mind you I am well well well well known as very angry at the telco companies and their lobbying power but I don't see a beef here... If anything I see govt legislators jumping in to do something regulators never ever would have
Am I missing something in THIS case?
Otherwise I don't see this as some new "worsening"
All views welcomed
Pip
Hi Pip, Yep, the beef is that Verizon have drop 99.7% of the "alt." newsgroups that have nothing to do with child porn.
So newsgroups like us.military , microsoft.public.excel, fr.soc.economie are also being dropped.
Verizon have made an editorial decision to carry only 8 out of 1000+ news group hierarchies. To put it a different way, imagine opening up your browser on Monday morning and finding only 8 out of every thousand websites you had in your Favourites folder available to you.
The rest had been excised from your access not by 'law', but purely by editorial judgment.
Do you think Andrew Cuomo an elected official has the right to do that to you?
Cheers,
Dean
yep verizon TOS suck - you wont catch me moving to them until they actually allow you to run applications that are going to make use of the extra bandwidth.
Cheers,
Dean
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?m ain_page=product_info&products_id=4520
Alphacool silent stars rock. I own 3 of these and the 4th server in my rack (without one) makes more noise than the rest combined (just waiting for some other parts befoe I can watercool everything in the 4th pc as well.
Unfortunately the $100 for the Silent star is just the start as you then need to buy pumps/rads etc but for $500 you can have a silent pc (or spend the extra $250 for a water cooled power supply and have a really cool - extremely quiet pc).
Check out www.collins.net.pr/blog if you want to read more about some of the other water cooled stuff I have.
Cheers,
Dean
Been out for a while - I posted more on my blog. http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/micros oft-photosynth.html
Go read up on Zfone. You can already do encryption with all Asterisk calls by preconfiguration however my company Mexuar also has the ability to do on the fly browser based calls using our Corraleta PRO SDK Basically use any java compliant browser to place a RSA encrypted call from that browser through to an Asterisk server on the fly :)
Cheers,
Dean
New York
http://www.mexuar.com/contactus.shtml
All of the Trixbox servers use CentOS4, theres got to be more than a few thousand of those out there.
Cheers,
Dean
No we got the e3 because we supported the war on terror in such a big public way, i almost felt guilty considering applying for one of these because of the FUBAR in the middle east.
....I got approved on a L2 as my spouse is on a L1.
having said that
it's interesting seeing how difficult it is to apply to a H1 knowing that the 10,5000 E3's didn't even come close to all being applied for last year (I think i heard through the NY Advance group that they filled about half of them).
I guess aussies are smart enough to know that they are on a good thing back home (lol- yes I like living here in New York but I love living in Sydney).
Cheers,
Dean
www.collins.net.pr/blog
Yep, when I read the actual patent there were a number of points in there where I thought thats a cool idea BUT nothing in there was patent worth and non obvious.
it sounds like CC were stopping people recording live concerts which is just totally wrong.
i think thats the problem with so many patents that they overstep the bounds of what is actually unique.
Cheers,
Dean
i dont know why these companies incorporate in the first place if they are worried about being sued. you incorporate a company for each event with $1 assets and liquidate after each show. big deal. only way to get presentations pulled then is through injunction before the event. Dean
Steal the code now buy the shirt.
x .aspx
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/members/products/inde
Cheers,
Dean