Drwn News
August 30, 2010
The ideal TV "of the future"
Big, flat screen. Various video plugs (whatever is new).
Non-vampire sleep mode.
Intel processor inside. Wifi. Ethernet. 4 USBs.
Wireless keyboard that doesn't break by falling (looking at you, Apple).
Remote with touch display and capacitive touch keyboard. And accelerometer for navigation.
No fans. It is huge so it distributes heat itself.
These devices use bluetooth, recognize each other, but can be re-homed to my other amazing TVs.
A front facing camera in the display for video and security and auto- brightness.
Now, about the software:
Six modes -- true off like truly 100% no power, sleep off like no display but computer is on, idle as in screensaver, PC-style mouse-and-desktop mode, media center/front row mode, and true TV mode.
Why so many? Well take a lesson from your PC or Mac -- you often want the wide open flexibility of true PC mode to do stuff that hasn't been "app-ified" yet. Like this Streamtorrent technology that is amazing but not legit enought to be remote-control-friendly.
More about the software later.
And...my estimated cost for this magic device.
Sent on the go from my Peek
August 30, 2010
My favorite new app is...
SOPcast and Streamtorrent etc.
Baseball pennant race demands it!
No pay tv in our house of course.
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Dell's Embarrassment on Android
Dell's first Android phone #fail
August 29, 2010
Collaboratively filtered recommendations, take 10
For every stream of data users create on the web, there is the sensible
opportunity to find who else is like you and recommend new stuff.
Amazon shopping behavior was the first I remember. And Fred Wilson's
comment about Foursquare is probably the most recent.
But these ideas face the same challenges: signal/noise in your behavior
as a recommendation vote, and finding true vs accidental resemblance.
I'm sorry but Last.fm has never showed me something new and awesome that
I love, Amazon almost never gets me to the product I really wanted to
buy. When Netflix succeeds it is usually doing what the above also do -
suggesting another member of a category. These systems are pretty good
at that -- establishing similarity of stuff.
But not of whether I'll like it.
Sent on the go from my Peek
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From: Fred Wilson
Some Thoughts On The Taste Neighbors Concept http://t.co/fidO1pr
August 27, 2010
Apple vs. the Mobile Industry, the last 5 years
Remember when Nokia were chumps for their low end focus? Now Blackberry is too.
