Adobe is working on strategy to dominate Web- and desktop-user interface. Here is the latest podcast about release of Adobe Apollo platform.
This is also my test of Clipmarks.
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February 28, 2007
Adobe Apollo information
Entry February 28, 2007
Tool: Yubnub – Command line for Firefox
My favorite tool recently is Yubnub. As a social command line Web search tool, it allows
users from the Web or Firefox search bar to go to multiple search engines or multiple common. It helps me greatly with reducing my list of bookmarks, and the commands are growing. To show the power of Yubnub, I will list out the ones that I use the most:
- cnn <content>, bbc <content>…: search the content on the sites
- am <book/author/etc/>: search on Amazon US
- am de <book/author/etc/>: search on Amazon Germany (I love this)
- li <name>: search on LinkedIn
- g <content>: Google search the content
- leo <word>, dic <word>: Search on German-English/English-English Directory
- wiki <term>: search on wikipaedia
- gc: Google mail composer
- gm: Google map
- gma: Google mail
- gdoc: Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- ym: Yahoo mail
You can download it here and try out yourself.
Update: Things I have been doing in the last few days out of work (in a random order)
- Reconnecting with my network after almost a year… Maintaining my network in LinkedIn.
- Trying to bring together traditional organizational design and development, Cynefin framework and social networking wave; and apply that to my division.
- Reading social network mapping theory of Karen Stephenson.
- Testing ClipMark, a tool for online bookmarking of all types of media and then mail/post to blog. I plan to use it to show interesting sites I visited in the day.
- Setting up a personal planning/tracking system for personal/personal development projects that lasts more than 2 weeks. Focus: available resources and efficiency.
- Reading German cartoons at my son’s order.
- Finishing pending items in my monthly plan. Almost a successful month. Just some items got delayed…
- Finding time to write to my blog more often.
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February 21, 2007
Entry February 21, 2007
Tools: Web Calendars
Here is a nice review of good Web calendars from Wired News. I was testing Google Calendar and using Remember the Milk to manage my tasks. It was OK, but the fact that I have to go to another place to maintain the tasks in 50% of the cases was too bad. Also, the offline functionality made me to go back to the ancient Lotus Organizer.
And you, how you keep track of your appointments/events and tasks? Give me some feedback, will you?
Thought: Wireless Technology – Will China Set the World’s 3G Standard… Or Not
Two years ago in a discussion with Connek members, I mentioned that with a huge number of subscribers, China would probably decide the 3G (third generation) mobile standard. Looking at a wave of the big mobile companies fluxed into India recently and the surge in the number of subscribers in the last 1 year, I might have to rethink my statement.
First, according to this article from Red Herring, with the current growth rate, very soon India will challenge China as the world’s biggest mobile market. This also specially true as the Indian population is expected to surpass China in the next 10 years.
Second, the mobile market in India is not closely regulated by a government body and dominated by government-owned operators like in China. This give a healthier environment for equipment vendors to compete. I believe this will create a much better selection mechanism to create a superior standard in India than in China.
Finally, slow decision making and standard roll-out might as well cost China the 3G opportunity. New wireless data standards (coined as 4G), in which Chinese low-cost vendors have not a lot of advantage, may bypass 3G before China can make its move.
Maybe, a better statement now should be: “IC (India and China), which country is more open, will shape the next mobile standard”.
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February 14, 2007
Thought: Interesting Renewal Innovations in Telecom and Media World
According to Red Herring, 19 mobile operators operating in over 100 countries had met to start a new payment system to ease international remittances. Being more popular than bank account, which is normally required for foreign remittance, among the foreign workers and their family back home, mobile phone account is one possible replacement. “The idea is that people can load cash on their mobile, and order it to be sent to a mobile phone number in another country, where the recipient receives a message that money has arrived, making it as easy as sending a text message.”
This is a creative version of M-commerce, but if successful, this can start a whole new dimension to the mature industry. I believe the need in this area is probably much more than in traditional M-commerce, where mobile network is merely a means of creating and transmitting transactions. A large billing system, distribution network, pre-paid capability and online authentication set mobile phone apart from its competitors.
The other renewal innovation is the new join-service by Amazon and Tivo. The service allows users to download the videos they purchase or rent from Amazon to the Tivo DVR associated with their Amazon account.
The innovation sets Amazon and Tivo ahead of the competition, and is a major step to bring together flexibility of Internet transaction and traditional TV transmission channel. After all, video transmission media is separated from video distribution channel, each in its optimal medium.
BTW, renewal innovations is the term coined by Geoffrey Moore in his book Dealing with Darwin referring to companies renew its mature offerings to a earlier stage in the adoption cycle. This type of innovation is probably something that companies in telecommunications and media industry should look for.
Thought: Social Network Mapping and a New Way of Cross-sell
I came across CNet the other day and a new way of mapping articles immediately caught my attention. The site provides a network map of articles, topics and companies in a dynamic format. From the map, I could see 3-dimension connections with other articles and immediately identified the next article I wanted to read. Click here for an example. For the first time in many years, I spent that much time reading many articles of the same site with such an interest.
The map changed completely my way of consuming the information. Before, I could only see links to related articles, but cannot see the relationship, nor form a good picture of my knowledge vs. what is available. With this type of map, I can easily identify where I want to go to complete my knowledge about the area.
The same concept can apply for Amazon or Wikipaedia. If I can see the network of the books I read and the books available based on topic, author and other readers’ recommendation, I will know which book I will buy next. Same can be done for structures of multiple items linked in different ways like Wikipaedia. Although the idea is not very new, I think it is a great way to extend knowledge and information, especially product information. A final note, LivePlasma, the company built the tool for CNet is a movie and music online seller.
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Changing my RSS Feed
I got frustrated with little information I got from WordPress about my blog subscription, though it’s a great blog tool. I therefore decided to move to a new RSS feed with FeedBurner. Please spend some time to change your RSS subscription to http://feeds.feedburner.com/JustAnotherViewOfLife. Thank you.
