Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
Just love this comment by John Jorsett “Do no evil” seems to mean that they crush you BEFORE you get off the ground. Google, the kinder, gentler Microsoft.” which seems all to true after reading this article at http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/12/when_mashups_go.html
For those who wish to buy me Christmas presents, 🙂 Here is my most wanted item.
Tom Tom navigator for the Treo 650 available from Expansys for a mere £139.95
For cheaper presents turn to my Amazon wish list
Other items to follow……
I think the guys on the irc backchannel at Les Blogs2 are onto something with an alternative name for RSS feeds as ARSE (apparently its the way RSS sounds to native English speakers when pronounced by mainland Europeans)
It seems a good name to me as it can be an acronym for Atom / RSS /Emissions
and also has an analogy to the human body. Feeds enter through the mouth additional processing is done by the individual and then the resulting mashup is expelled through the arse.
I wonder if it will get into the next OED like Ben Hammersley’s word Podcasting!
Here is Rend Shakir being interviewed by Nick Lawrence in The Sauce bar on the inaugural day of Cambridge Matrix’s first public wireless mesh node. Could this be the start of free WiFi here in Cambridge UK?.
The interview was for the BBC1 InsideOut programme. Rend was, explaining what a wireless hotspot is and the advantages of using a wireless mesh network rather than localised hotspots.
The business model is to sell the base station to the local cafe. Users can then access local advertised links, on the homepage, for free (the base station owner getting a cut of the advertising revenue) or use it as a regular hotspot with roaming accounts available from just £5.00 per Day.
The programme is scheduled for BBC1 on 6th Feb 2006 at 7.30pm. Hopefully, by then there will be many more public nodes in Cambridge.
