At a workshop on the future of audio-visual search a while back a Nokia executive talked about the digitisation of everyday life as a guiding principle behind the company’s development programme.The logic is simple. People will want to digitise all aspects of their behaviour and history. The simplest way to do that is with [...]

Have you ever taken a moment to realize that the primary reason the information security industry even exists is because a noted lack of pedantic people both in the RFC world of the 1980s and the software engineering world up until the mid 1990s? Yes, there was actually a time where people did not consider the unexpected consequence of an unbounded strcpy(). Way back, when these people were focused on writing software and designing systems, they were unencumbered with the trappings of secure coding. I wonder if this period allowed people to be more free with their ideas and in turn make the incredible strides that fueled technology development.

Vpod.tv is French company with an crossplatform TV technology: “vpod.tv (Video Publishing On Demand) enables any consumer and corporation to easily create their own personal webTV and mobile TV.”The examples given on the site are: an architect using the service to show clients work in progress on buildings, kids running their own entertainment channels [...]

There’s a real logic to what soonr are doing. Europe has led the United States in mobile phone uptake and applications development so it should have a natural advantage in mobile phone applications. Soonr is proof of the pudding.SoonR is the only service that enables standard mobile phones to use the applications on PCs in [...]

This is interesting. Seems that a group of Sri Lankan credit card thieves collected the data off a bunch of UK chip-protected credit cards.

Joke: A poor Jew lived in the shtetl in 19thcentury Russia. A Cossack comes up to him on horseback.

“What are you feeding that chicken?” asks the Cossack.

I just finised our pipeline review (a review of new business about to close). It struck me how many new customers are creating private research portals for their sales teams.

I actually thought Digium would never take venture funding. The company doesn’t need it ($10M+ in sales and profitable), but apparently David Skok of Matrix Partners gave Mark Spencer (founder and CEO of Digium) an offer he couldn’t refuse:Make that $13.8 million of them.Matrix is one of my very favorite venture firms: great [...]

Kevin Burton has an alternate view on Technorati's numbers. He makes some fair points - there is no way that there are 50 million active blogs. But I don't agree with Kevin that for a blog to be active post...

GDB Television is a UK based provider of technologies that allow users to set up TV channels easily and cheaply. Like vpod (see last post), the channels can deliver to PSP, Windows enabled mobile devices and of course the Internet and television sets. Two is not a crowd but is this becoming a crowded market, [...]

BusinessWeek's cover on Web 2.0 zillionaires irked me. Total hype and lousy reporting. All about selling mags on the newsstand, not informed commentary. Seems Kevin Rose is bringing the story back down to earth himself: "I'm not a multi-millionaire, I'm...

Minnesota Public Radio interviewed me while wandering around Minneapolis, looking for cameras and other forms of mass surveillance.

I posted some comments a few days ago about Web 2.0 and the fact that I think a lot of the talk about collective intelligence is off base. I want to expand a little more on my reasoning against the concept of collective intelligence. 

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