MS are not looking to make money from their console, at least not in the first few years. They have a lot of money to try anything that maybe in the long run will give them the advantage.
This is why they jumped and put the XBox live although they also knew that the market is still not ready for it.
What good is having a PDA OS on a device with essentially no input?"
Well, you don't need 101 keys just to type some short names or commands. If you are using some strong prediction algorithms you can let the user click couple of keys (only the ones on the phone's keypad) and predict from it what the user meant.
It is great for text commands like: cd, ls, vi, less..., and it is great for artist names like, "Pink Floyd" or "Shakira".
If I had this kind of software on my iPod phone, I could really download my music (which is not in the "Top 10" list of iTunes today).
It is not enough to be in UK, you also need to set your setting to be English(UK) and not the default English(US).
If you try to mess with the system and ask for English(UK) interface, then you get the hint to switch back to English(US) by not showing your gmail in your my-google page.
It is strange that it doesn't work if you are not in the locale of US. You can't get your gmail (the language must be English-US, not even English-UK), your weather and surely not your news.
The first thing that jumps into my mind when I hear personalization is Localization. Google must work first on making it truly localized.
I heard that you are going to have an online WAP version of the game for mobile phones before the game goes live. I think that it is going to be great fun to play it again.
The thin line between giving trivial information and giving too much information, tested here.
Answers.com are, IMHO, on the trivial side. Sure they are saying something, but it only gives the impression of information. It is great for Quiz, but it is nothing for research. The same goes for Google new factual BETA.
Of course Google usually is on the "too much information" side of the line, and it is good to see that they are testing this balance.
It is nice as a gimmick, it is nice as an idea. It is far from being a usable tool.
I think that some of the analysis he showed was rather interesting. The peaks of "eclipse" or "full moon" around these events, or the seasonal changes of "watermelon" queries, are an openning for automatic community knowledge.
Does anyone know how we can get access to this type of information? He showed a web interface (using Mozilla) to query this kind of "knowledge". Is it opened for outside queries?
IMOH it is better to have a few great games than having many average games.
It saves a lot of money (all the games are sold for the same price) and leaves you with a great feeling and life time memories.
The DS has these few great games. The feeling I got from playing Mario 64 again on the DS is far better than any PSP game will ever give me.
To play music, I have a tiny MP3, and I don't need "the brick".
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Hey, how did you find out how I want to call my future kid?
MS are not looking to make money from their console, at least not in the first few years. They have a lot of money to try anything that maybe in the long run will give them the advantage.
This is why they jumped and put the XBox live although they also knew that the market is still not ready for it.
In that screen you can also see Google Ads.
To top that one of the ads is: "Is Longhorn Secure?".
No way that it is real!
Did you notice that in screen 4 that shows the "new" explorer you have a link to firefox "the browser that you can trust" along with a Red-Hat link?
I can't believe that such images can come from real Microsoft source, unless FF is on radar of MS future purchase list.
What good is having a PDA OS on a device with essentially no input?"
Well, you don't need 101 keys just to type some short names or commands. If you are using some strong prediction algorithms you can let the user click couple of keys (only the ones on the phone's keypad) and predict from it what the user meant.
It is great for text commands like: cd, ls, vi, less..., and it is great for artist names like, "Pink Floyd" or "Shakira".
If I had this kind of software on my iPod phone, I could really download my music (which is not in the "Top 10" list of iTunes today).
It is not enough to be in UK, you also need to set your setting to be English(UK) and not the default English(US).
If you try to mess with the system and ask for English(UK) interface, then you get the hint to switch back to English(US) by not showing your gmail in your my-google page.
It took me a while to understand that hint...
It is strange that it doesn't work if you are not in the locale of US. You can't get your gmail (the language must be English-US, not even English-UK), your weather and surely not your news.
The first thing that jumps into my mind when I hear personalization is Localization. Google must work first on making it truly localized.
I heard that you are going to have an online WAP version of the game for mobile phones before the game goes live. I think that it is going to be great fun to play it again.
10 first turns are free, direct your mobile phones to: http://h2g2.t-mp2.com/Game
It is nice to have a blog that is run by the company on the company.
They have great press and nice prodcut, far from exciting.
The thin line between giving trivial information and giving too much information, tested here.
Answers.com are, IMHO, on the trivial side. Sure they are saying something, but it only gives the impression of information. It is great for Quiz, but it is nothing for research. The same goes for Google new factual BETA.
Of course Google usually is on the "too much information" side of the line, and it is good to see that they are testing this balance.
It is nice as a gimmick, it is nice as an idea. It is far from being a usable tool.
I think that some of the analysis he showed was rather interesting. The peaks of "eclipse" or "full moon" around these events, or the seasonal changes of "watermelon" queries, are an openning for automatic community knowledge.
Does anyone know how we can get access to this type of information? He showed a web interface (using Mozilla) to query this kind of "knowledge". Is it opened for outside queries?
IMOH it is better to have a few great games than having many average games.
It saves a lot of money (all the games are sold for the same price) and leaves you with a great feeling and life time memories.
The DS has these few great games. The feeling I got from playing Mario 64 again on the DS is far better than any PSP game will ever give me.
To play music, I have a tiny MP3, and I don't need "the brick".