Moving about

So yesterday I found out that a friend I had I the fairview youth group passed away in a car wreck. Garrett bowlan was driving about 7:30 in the morning in Woodward when he crossead the center line and hit a semi head on.

Automobile accidents for some reason have become "acceptable" losses for our society. Really technologically there's no reason this has to be the case. An proper infstucture and standards could not only eliminate accidents but also increase productivity during commute time and probably change some social norms about the need to own ones own car.

Pods of single rider trains are the future and hopefully in between we can create something to make our lives more productive and less full of a late night surprise phone call about someone we care about

It's magical

So this is my first post from my iPad. When jobs unveiled it I was Pretty skeptical. So much so I really didn't want one. But as I saw innovation from the devs specifically the flipboard and netflix I wanted to try it. So I bought a used one. (which is a story for another day)

One of the things I noticed quickly though is that it's really a "lean back device". It's great for reading rss and Twitter and Facebook. Is is what I spend the majority of my time doing in the evening on the couch. I'm nit sure how great it will be for actually doing anything but I will say I agree with jobs that the technology really gets out of the way and you can consume the media. Also the battery is all it's cracked up to be.

While I would have preferred to get an android device I don't think we'll see one until the end of the year or maybe first of 2011. Even then the apps will be far behind what the apple devs are doing. But there's no doubt that they will catch up and when they do I'm sure it will be time for the Jackson family to get a new tablet..

Only time will tell if the honeymoon phase wears off and I have buyers remorse. So far though its pert great

Your last 4 years

These are the last 4 years, that should be your thoughts when the right company enters your market. 4 years before my industry is forever changed. In 2000 napster was released and then shortly on the heels of that itunes was released by 2008 they were the largest music retailer. The kindle was released and 4 years later they were selling more virtual books than hardbound books. 1998 google received it's first funding by 2002 they were the largest search engine.

Once the right company enters the market it's too late. How will you know, because by the time you do it will be too late. You won't disappear overnight, it will be happen over time. A little slower next year than last until finally there's no margin or volume left. Do you have a plan B, or can you devlop the right product to be "That company"

People want to use the internet to find people like them

but they want to do it with mass market tools. People don't want a search engine for their business and one for their home life they want google to handle both. People who love pets don't want a social network for their dog, they want facebook to handle it. People don't want a geeky smartphone, grandma smartphone and a business phone, they want an iphone.

The internet is great of for helping people reconnect and to create silos of people who think like you and have the same interests but they don't want a separate technology for each one of their lives. They want one technology to understand all the varied parts of their life.

In short it's easy to think that hey that technology works great let's build a knock off for this niche. And in a few cases it works but in most cases people want mass market tools to manage the niches of their life.

Moving faster

Facetime for Iphone, Ipads, tablets, andriod 2ghz moblie devices. Things are moving faster each day. One thing We know though with all that mobile tech we are going to need fast wireless data pipes.

Teleconferencing has the ability to change social norms. Can the network keep up?

Wasting Time

today I'm convinced we live the most exciting time of change in the past 60+ years and one of a 3-4 fundamental shifts in the history of the world and mostly I'm sitting here just collecting a check trying to help maintain the "status-quo" .

June 6th Pre Iphone 4.0 release

Purpose of the renewal of posting is to be more diligent about what I do each and every day.

today is the day before the iphone 4.0 release. Steve Jobs and apple did a real job reinventing the phone space 3 years ago. Before then carriers wouldn't put Wifi in handsets, nor let you download your own pictures without a data plan or even put music on the phone. The iphone changed all that and it really was a great piece of style design and usability. But it's hard to make game changing enhancements year after year and this may be the year Google and andriod team has caught up. I expect save some earth shattering revelation I will move to the andriod this summer. Megan just got hers and i really like the openness. As we move to moblie here are my questions

1. Can networks keep up with the demand? The pace of users need for data is currently out-pacing the carriers ability to roll out that tech.

2. How long before you can just dock your moblie phone into a cradle and use as your pc.

3. If #2 is true then everything will/should reside in the could where it's accessible anywhere