Michael Gartenberg – Installed Base of Music Capable Phones Gartenberg has a graph showing the growth in the hand held media device market. The fastest growing segment going forward would appear to be music capable mobile phones. As a proud owner of the AudioVox SMT 5600 I will tell you this is a much better strategy than for me to have to carry both an mp3 player AND a phone. It also has the added benefit of turning my music off for me and switching to phone m mode when calls come in and I can talk on the same headphones that I was listening to my mp3s on. Now why would anyone want anything different?
Media Center PC Sales Skyrocket in U.S. Retail Market
From Chris Lanier:
“Sales of Media Center PCs have skyrocketed since July 9, according to a recent study by Current Analysis. For the week ending August 20, 2005, Media Center PCs accounted for 43% of all desktop personal computers sold in the U.S. retail market, based on data from a sampling of U.S. retailers.”
71% of the Media Centers sold in the week ending August 20 did not have a TV tuner.
53% of the Media Centers sold in the week ending August 20 utilized AMD’s Athlon 64 processor.
67% of the Media Centers sold in the week ending August 20 used a 250-GB hard drive.
Bored
Do You Really Want To Know What Your TV Will Know About You?
Emmy Advanced Media – Television Business News: Do You Really Want To Know?: Shelly Palmer on the future of television as a marketing medium. “LET’S PLAY PRETEND FOR A minute. On the count of three, you will know everything there is to know about the viewing habits of your most coveted television audience: what they watch, when they watch, who’s in the room, how long … everything. In fact, since we are pretending, in this fantasy we’re even going to know how the spots affected lift, purchase intent, and brand awareness. Taken a step further, we’re going to know what non-television media they chose to spend time with and every metric associated with those behaviors as well. In our fantasy we have created a media version of Pandora’s Box. “
Slide? Competition for Flickr?
Flickr Killer? at 0gravity.co.uk Just noticed this post today on something called Slide which is supposed to be competion for Flickr apparently. Hmmmm… very interesting.
Skype in MCE
Matt Goyer’s Microsoft Windows Media Center Blog – MCE 2005 Matt Goyer says Skype is coming to MCE. Very cool. At what point does the remote become a phone?
The Media Center Show #22
The Media Center Show #22 Ian is out with the Media Center Show, #22
Bay Bridge Silhouette
The Right to Bear Cameras
Tonight Flickr pals Ropeboy, Aqui-Ali, Ranjit and I all went down to Oakland’s warehouse district to shoot. No sooner had we begun than we were stopped and confronted by Sheriffs. They required each of us to turn over our IDs and then proceeded to detain us for about 20 minutes. Admitedly there is a small power plant and trains down in the district but ask yourself this, should carrying a camera result in this kind of harrasment? Should the police be able to randomly stop you and run your ID for warrants or a background check merely for being in the wrong place with a camera? There is a chill in the air in this country right now but I’m not sure that taking it out on the rights of photographers is the correct answer. We were committing no crime and peacefully assembling for the purpose of our passion, photography and it’s pursuit in a group that we call Flickr.
This particular cop asked that I not take his photograph. I took this shot anyway when he wasn’t paying attention. As I understand it, freedom of the press involves the ability to photograph law enforcement and what some might view as an abuse of power.
Self Portrait, August 24, 2005
