links for 2009-02-05

Michel Bauwens comments on Dave Pollards recent post. Rather interesting.

The problem with research is they use straight line trends and don't factor in the impact of things like unlimited text messaging. Give that to a teen and they don't leave their phone. Give them an iPhone and they don't demand a laptop. I've seen it first hand.

Simply turn it off on the day as planned for 48 hours. All those that have ignored the warnings will get the message. Then in the week after advertise the solutions in public broadcast messages. Now the extension has a little sense. It's been poorly communicated all the way through. Still let's move forward and do it without out politics. Turn it off for 48 hours. You have to do it sometime.

I've now played with Skype 4.0 and having just returned from India where Orkut, Gtalk and gmail are seemingly increasingly connected at the hip I see nothing in the new Skype that suggests it will capture India. That's where the newbies are. That's where broadband or mobile apps will make the difference. I've thought for awhile that GTalk could really compete with Skype. With the economy the way it is I find that even more likely now.

I'm finding it hard to wrestle with a few of the initial reviews coming about about Skype 4.0 for Windows. My initial experience was "thank god I still am using the mac version". There's many UI reasons I think it is bad, in fact many clients have been designed just like it over the years. They all failed. We might just see the Coke Classic equivalent here.

The new UI simply does nothing for me. PERIOD.

I've been looking at how to do this. It only works if there is a good way to use #tags for organizing. Twitter could make it easy by providing at "comments" URL option behind every tweet

Google is poised to crush Loopt and Whrrl and similar apps. Will we trust google with all this info? Probably. Am looking forward to testing the iPhone app.