SENT

SENT is the first Cameraphone Artshow...

Borrowed Time...

In a Scientific American interview Michio Kaku is grilled on the possiblity of Time Travel

Guardian launches digital edition

This edition still in Beta, presents the daily paper online, not in classic internet format, but regular broadsheet format. With one being able to click and read the section one desires. This is similar to the Orange Country Register Digitl version.

Though one is not privy to the software being used, but the underlying technology, navigation and presentation clearly points to Olive Software, which has also powered the Orange County Register digital edition.

http://digital.guardian.co.uk/

Electric Shaver Museum

Electric Shaver Museum

Data

For all those people hungry for data on media

The Money Map

The Money Map is a neatresource on where the Presidential candidates are getting their funds from...

Talk about the ridiculous

This Wired story on a space mission being put up on eBay has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard so far...

Time for IBM to exit the business?

This had to happen sooner than later... Dell was the first to start commodotisation, Walmart will take this further...
Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks

Scoble Comments

Last night in the airport I was reading a copy of Fast Company magazine. It's really weird to see quotes from webloggers in the pages of magazines. Joi Ito had a quote featured there.

In Wired, the smiling faces of Ben and Mena Trott stared out of the pages at me.

It's a strange world we've all entered. Three years ago I barely knew what a blog was.

It’s NOT just a game

NYT talks about The Hollywood Stock Exchange, which is apparently something the Hollywood studios have begun to take really seriously...

I Want one...

This is like the largest PVP/MP3 player... I want one...

Pocket PC... Poof?

There is speculation, that Microsoft may abandon the Pocket PC platform... Between the Phone Platform and the Tablet PC, there is little reason to continue with that platform anyway...

EVD or DVD

Wired reports Move Over DVD, Here Comes the EVD. Analysts qouted in the story say that the evd will not suceed, considering that hollywood studios may not support the same... I think otherwise, The Asian markets are still new to DVD's and Asian producers may switch to this. Also like most consumer electronics, DVD/EVD players will be manufactured in Asia (China, Taiwan et al). They just might suppport it...

Internet 2 finally takes off...

In a Wired Story Fast Track for Science Data, what has been termed as Internet2 for quite some time has finally gone online...

Top 10 Internet Fads

The Top 10 Internet Fads
kuro5hin

This is neat. You can link to the middle of a realmedia stream... Presidential debate has been discussed, but I can use it as a marker in between a movie...

Read more via [Boing Boing Blog]

Some more links of AdAsia Coverage

The Times of India
Advertising industry enters a new era
Advertising industry enters a new era

The Economic Times
Ad Asia ends with kudos to creativity of Asians

AgencyFaqs
Santosh Desai lambasts marketers for their narrow view of society
‘Don’t emulate western ideas,’ is the creative consensus
Money is compensation for not living your life the way you want to: Charles Handy
Are marketers missing the grey boom, asks expert on ageing
Don’t break the wrong rules: Jack Trout

Financial Express
Curtains On Grand Advertising Meet
Advertising Highs: Lessons From Jaipur
Reflections From Thought Leaders

Change in RSS Feed URL

I'll be changing the RSS feed URL, in a few days. I've to rely on Feedster, as blogger is still not providing rss feeds...

Om Mallik comments... This was the whole point I was making, that technology is no longer something you can talk about when you are marketing a product when I posted this

According to the Chinese Ministry of Information, world # 1 and #2 wireless handset makers are not doing that well in China. From January to September 2003, Chinese makers produced 129 million handsets. Ningbo held the top spot at 15%. Motorola slips to #2 at 14%, followed closely by TCL at 12%. Rounding out the top four, Nokia held a 10% share. Wanna bet that next year one of these two chinese handset makers will be selling phones in US for $50 a pop - and they will include camera, some bluetooth and good knows what.

[GigaOm]

My host was not working the whole of today... I guess that's the price for doing this without spending a single rupee

Kazaa to distribute Indian movies...

Awesome...

The file-swapping company, which is locked in a legal battle with Hollywood studios, has struck a deal to digitally distribute a full-length feature film made in India's Bollywood. CNET News

It'd seem Ricardo Semler's talk at AdAsia is having an impact as Hind Lever freezes market research budgets :D

Boing Boing Blog comments on VoIP an dall the chaos surrounding the VoIP providers.. The fun will start when some does VoIP over WiFi.

While this is new as a commercial service, the technology is not really new... Dial Pad, Buddy Phone et al. from 4 odd years back... and not to forget corporate WAN's. my company, The Times has been using it fo quite some time...

Skype

One of the things the blogosphere is talking about Skype. Skype is peer to Peer voice application on the web...
From the Skype webite

What is Skype

Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk and chat with your friends.

The technology is extremely advanced - but super simple to use... You’ll be making free phone calls to your friends in no time!

Features


Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to other Skype users
Superior sound quality - better than your regular phone
Works with all firewall, NAT and routers – nothing to configure!
Friends list shows you when your Skype friends are online and ready to talk or chat
Super-simple and easy to use
Your calls are encrypted “end-to-end” for superior privacy

Telcos beware

Nokia 3108

New Pen-Based Nokia 3108 phone... Finally is all I can say. The competitors like Sony Ericsson and Treo are already into their second (P-900) or third (Treo 600) editions of their Stylus phones.

OS is no longer a differentiator for Nokia

As a member of the Nokia planning team, I was party to the market Insight, that the device is becoming secondary to the whole process of communication... While this is worrying to Nokia Nokia is itself digging it's own grave...

How?

For years, Nokia phones were known for their simplicity and ease of use, and admittedly by the top execs of hte company that the proprietary interface on their hones had a lot to do with it... Howver the newer Nokias are using the Symbian Series 60 based OS. Which means that the interface is no longer the key distinguishing factor between the different brands of phones.

This coupled with the earlier insight would mean an ever weaking technological position which has been Nokia's marketing pitch in the past. The oft repeated statement in any marketing course as to Technology no longer being a differentiator, but a leveller, will be true for Nokia.

This Wired story on cracking of the Nokia N-Gage Games to be run on other Series 60 OS phones (Siemens), illustrates the point above.. It doesn't matter who you buy your phones from, modern applications will run on all of them

Some More coverage on AdAsia

Some more coverage of the AdAsia conference in Jaipur...

The Economic Times microsite on AdAsia

The Times of India
India's moment has arrived : Ambani

Exchange4Media microsite on AdAsia

Indian Express
Batey Bets On Top Ten Global Indian Brands
Brand India

Business Standard
Ambani, Kumar Birla pitch for Brand India

Crooked Timber: Sex selection banned in the UK

Crooked Timber: Sex selection banned in the UK India went a step further than this when it banned Sex determination per se.

This is ofcourse, because of the society feeling that the girl child is unwanted and a bureden on the family.

AdAsia on the Web

My Boss and other bigwigs fron the The Times are away at the AdAsia conference at Jaipur...

A poor substitute to being there is to read about it... So read on...

The Economic Times microsite on AdAsia

The Times of India
Ad Asia mantra: Break rules to break even
Ad industry maturing in Pak

Business Standard
Admen salute consumer, the king
Asian admen get royal welcome

agencyfaqs.com
Brand India will succeed: Mukesh Ambani
Great brands play the role of protagonists: Scott Bedbury
Cult Branding: The Harley Davidson experience
Over time media will become more targetable: Irwin Gotlieb
"Advertisers have lost focus of the key purpose of advertising" – Sergio Zyman
I have never broken any rules; perhaps none of us have: Amitabh Bachchan
Product variety is not the same as experience variety: CK Prahalad
Engaging the consumer of tomorrow: MS Banga
"Industry-wide emulation" is the problem, says Ricardo Semler
Anticipation unbound

The Telegraph
Salary fixing is based on basically three parameters for the corporation: what the competition pays, what the company pays for the same job, and the level of anticipated profits in the year ahead: Ricardo Semler via Mediaah!
Bachchan shatters marketing myth on norms

Indian Express
Breaking Rules & Bringing A Pot Of Gold

Financial Express
Advertising Is More Than Just Commercials: Zyman
Retail Revolution Has Begun In India: Banga

Business Line
Big B beckons admen to keep finger on common man's pulse

The Guardian
Ad men try to keep eastern promise

The Statesman
Big B owes Zanjeer success to Emergency

It's not what you know, but who you know

Ross Mayfield Comments on Many to Many:

The rise of social networking gives greater credence to the saying "It's not what you know, but who you know." This inherently undemocratic notion concerns some, and, indeed, the Network is the Market. Within a power-law distribution, preferential attachment implies... Full Article

Some Newspaper Blogs that I cam across, there are many more ofcourse

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/
http://www.journaltimes.com/weblogs/

The 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S.

I wonder how I can get myself one of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S.

Ridding oneself of the electronic leash...

Should you turn of your cellphone or remove the battery if you don't want to be contacted? This comment on Smart Mobs says that mobile phones can be tracked even when they are turned off... I found this worrying and somewhat unbelievable... till one reads the comments...

Where someone comments that a signal is sent out by the phone, when it is being turned off... This gyan explains the different operator messages one gets when one removes the phone battery without turning the phone off... vs. just turning the phone off...

Microsoft is allegedly going to enter the Blogging/Social Software scene...

WiFi in Srinagar

Srinagar has WiFI

Reading Why Indian media is so self obsessive, makes me wonder whether Om Maliks definition of a blog, is to be news and anaysis and can't be on the lighter side of things... Also read the comment that I left attached to the post... PM have you read this...

Define Your World with the Urban Dictonary... Pretty Cool...