37 posts tagged “internet”

Wii users answer: Are you doing anything to counter global warming?
Originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado

I found this in the Everybody Votes Channel of my Wii. What worried me was that over 40% of the respondents aren't doing something about a very real threat.

So, you might have read the presumed advantages of treating yourself as a branded product.  Now, where do you start?  I'd suggest your Facebook profile and your blog.  I don't think you need to "spin" anything really, but be certainly aware that whatever you put in there will be visible to everybody, including co-workers and prospective (or current) employers.  Therefore, less pictures of drunken parties might be in order.

Another key aspect is of course differentiation.  What do you do/are/think that makes you different?  Do you play in a band?  Have you got a blog with a huge readership (that's definitely not me, LOL)?  Were you born in a foreign country?  Even seemingly minor details like the way you dress will make people remember you. 

And of course, you have to build your brand.  Trust and lots of hard work will take you far.  Otherwise, it's got no substance.

You might have read it on the news, or on their blog, but it's out there at share.ovi.com, and it's been live for over a week.  With support for storing and sharing over 100 media types, unlimited storage and bandwidth and posting not restricted to the PC, we're very excited indeed, so please send your feedback this way!

We held a Q&A session in Barcelona with selected bloggers (video excrepts below).

And this is how a session like that looks from the other side:

"Convergence" is a word I've heard plenty of times in the last 10 years, when mobile phones still had monochromatic screens and Minidisc players were all the rage.  Now, with Google and Apple entering the mobile market, it's definitely getting interesting.  The IHT has a run on the situation here, and a couple of posts from Mobile Opportunity giving a digest of the most recent moves here and here.

Disclaimer: Yes, I work for one of these companies, but even if it weren't related to my job I find this interesting.

User Tomektore created a very interesting web app to measure how open mided a specific last.fm user is.  His Open Mind Index is calculated from the number of different tags the music that a user listens to has.  I checked it out and my results are quite obvious: if I listen to Arabic electronica, Japanese punk, Finnish melodic rock, Mexican indie and some other stuff in between it's kind of obvious that I'm more or less open minded.

I have been too busy to tell you guys about this application, now available in Beta labs.  Basically, the support for posting to Vox and Flickr just got much better, with better tagging and the possibility to follow the photostreams of others straight from your mobile device.  Darla Mack has a good review of the app.

Please give us your feedback (here or, faster, at Tommi's blog).

I heard about this very interesting online game from a friend and have started playing it.  Basically it is about creating your own nation and making decisions about how will your society work (more on the FAQ).  The results of your decisions are always very exaggerated, which makes for very comic results, not so unlike what happens in real-life politics.

Bought an Apple AirPort Express to connect my laptop with my stereo to listen music and at the same time be able to browse the web.  Since I have a Fonera router for using my network and sharing it with others (not that anybody has actually connected as I live in the middle of nowhere), I thought it would be easy to have them talk to each other and to my PC... how wrong I was!

After 3 hours of fiddling with the different settings I got it all working and now I'm happy listening to music without any wires in the way.  However, it got me wondering about the good old problem of interoperability.  Even when following the same standards, it is ridiculous things wouldn't work because of an arcane problem between WPA/WPA2 implementations in the two routers.  I guess there is still plenty of work to be done.

OK, tiedän että joskus en puhu suomea hyvin, mutta kyllä voin hyvin nähdä että tämä nettikauppa on käännetty väärin.  Jos todella haluaa nauraa etsii toimitusehdot alhaalta.

Hassuin on, että englannin- sekä espanjankielenkäännökset ovat niin huonot kuin suomenkielisen.