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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/
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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.
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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...
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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]
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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
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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]
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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...
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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
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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.
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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)...
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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
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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 basi...
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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
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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/
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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...
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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...
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