"(...) Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture. (...)"
Via David Weinberger: "(...) Ulrike
Reinhard, of WhoIsWho, video-interviewed me on our back porch last
week. She asked me about the need for serendipity, what an “open”
Internet means, the costs of social networks, the new sense of privacy,
user-controlled identity systems, Web 3.0, market conversations,
categorization and control, Twitter, Obama… (...)"
Serendipity is a fascinating concept. I strongly believe that the way we learn new things and expand our horizons is through serendipity. In order to discover and, if you will, accept something new, this "news" needs to be presented to us in a familiar, trusted, i.e. "old" context.
We hardly ever buy into something entirely unfamiliar. For example, if we don't know the source, we are less prone to trust the news. In conversations, I am more likely to learn something new from people with whom I have, say, 80 percent in common, than from people with whom I have, say, 10 percent in common. If you get my drift...
"(...) Reuters' journalists are experimenting with the potential of mobile journalism through a project with Nokia's research centre. (...)"
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"(...) The 300+ MB heavy suite is actually a collection of applications (Nokia Lifeblog, Content Copier, Nokia Application Installer, Nokia Multimedia Player, Nokia Music Manager, One Touch Access, PC Sync, Nokia Photos, Nokia Map Loader) that "seamlessly link your Nokia Nseries multimedia device and your PC."
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At the Nokia World event in Amsterdam in December 2007, Chris Anderson discussed themes from his upcoming book, 'Free', in which he argues that when the price of production and distribution of (digital) content (and services) approaches zero, you might as well treat it as if it were free, and sell something else.
Open your mind to create new business models around "free", in an economy of abundance.
We are entering a world in which every way that content (and even physical products) can be created, WILL be tried, because it costs next to nothing to do so.
The old scarcities are: time + money. The new scarcities are: time + money + attention + reputation.
When working with Intel, Chris tells, they did a thought experiment. What about, instead of selling hardware and software as 1+1, selling it perhaps as 0+2?
Is Chris suggesting that Nokia should give its devices away for free in order to sell MORE services?
Could and should we move from selling hardware+software as 1+1, towards 0+morethan2?
To put it more urgently: is this the ONLY way to go?
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I've been trying Kyte for less than a week, and I love it because:
I've embedded it on my blog and on my Facebook profile, and I love the fact that there always seem to be people on the other end who apparently feel compelled to converse about the stuff that I've posted.
[UPDATE: I posted the content of this blog entry as a video on my Kyte channel - unfortunately the sound quality is quite horrible.]
I have to admit that I very much look at applications like these from a blogger's point of view. I want to engage in conversation about the things I blog. Blogging is very much about capturing. Whether I do that with text, video, images, flash multimedia, whether on a PC or on-the-go, is of secondary concern. What matters is the capturing and the quality of the conversation.
Seems to me that the scope of the content that you'd want to "socialcast" with Kyte poses somewhat of a challenge. According to Daniel Graf, Kyte is distinctly different from YouTube in that Kyte is not about "broadcasting to the world and trying to get as many viewers as you can", but rather "sharing and conversing about moments that matter".
On one hand, there is content which I'd like to capture and converse about with anyone who's interested. These conversations are intended to be very public. Anything on my public blog falls into that category. So indeed, the idea is to broadcast to the world and try to get as many viewers as I can. Or at least, to reach as many people as possible so as to have the best chances of attracting the most relevant viewers.
On the other hand, there is content which I'd like to converse about with some people, but not with the public at large. If Kyte would offer distributed access, I believe that "socialcasting" could become a more meaningful term. The thing is, during these past few days I've caught myself recording more video material with my N95 that I wouldn't want to share with the world, than stuff that I'd happily put into the public domain.
If we are talking about "moments that matter", I think that many of those moments are somewhat private, or so draft that they are not ready to be shared with the world. I'd love to converse about those captured moments with people I trust. This can only happen with some sort of access control.
Otherwise, the content on Kyte will not be more interesting than the content on YouTube, and the "community" will not be more engaged or relevant than the "community" on YouTube.
Then a point about searchability. Daniel mentioned how Reuters is using Kyte together with some speech-to-text technology, so as to make Kyte's audio content searchable. I think this is a brilliant move. Everyone wants to be able to find back the stuff they capture. If I post video content on my blog, I want that to pop up in a relevant search query a year from now.
So, to summarize: I love Kyte because of its (1) ease of use, (2) channel concept, and (3) immediate interactivity. I see room for improvement through (A) access control and (B) speech-to-text searchability.
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