An interesting book I read in the December holiday period, it details how audiences relate to different properties accross media, and what are the new behaviours we are finding as a result. Even though some of the cases and examples shown are already a couple of years old, if you are trying to understand what are the ways people are actually using, dissecting and mashing content this is definitely the book for you.
A previous review on Slashdot here.
Read a review of it on Blanca’s blog and decided to check it out. The author discusses the book below.
Interesting post at Stephen's blog about worldwide trends. Worth reading.
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Bought an Apple AirPort Express to connect my laptop with my stereo to listen music and at the same time be able to browse the web. Since I have a Fonera router for using my network and sharing it with others (not that anybody has actually connected as I live in the middle of nowhere), I thought it would be easy to have them talk to each other and to my PC… how wrong I was!
After 3 hours of fiddling with the different settings I got it all working and now I'm happy listening to music without any wires in the way. However, it got me wondering about the good old problem of interoperability. Even when following the same standards, it is ridiculous things wouldn't work because of an arcane problem between WPA/WPA2 implementations in the two routers. I guess there is still plenty of work to be done.
According to Microsoft, there is about 240 million users of MSN messenger in the world. I believe that a few of them might be interested in knowing that there is now a version of Windows live (including Messenger, Hotmail, Live Spaces and Search) available for use in Nokia devices.
For more information go to www.nokia.com/windowslive, but it is currently available for owners of Nokia N73, N76, N80 internet edition, N93i and N95 in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, UAE and UK, with more to follow.
Needless to say, we would love to hear your comments about the service.
It has been a long time since I have been so enthusiastic about a gadget as it is currently the case with the Wii. Bought it yesterday and have to say that the overall off & online experience is very well thought through.
Technology specs are nothing if you don't deliver your promise.
Interesting article here (I think via Slashdot, but added it to del.icio.us when I first saw it so I'm not sure).
Real estate salesmen would be proud.
Today I really felt back at work. Even though July is high holiday season in Finland and some parts of Europe, there is enough interesting people and interesting projects to work on. Starting was a little slow, but now we're doing what we're supposed to: helping bring interesting services and devices to consumer's hands.
You may have heard that we're working with Flickr and have teamed up with Vox. What you probably didn't know was that if you're living in Europe you can order prints of your photos (not only in quality paper, but as calendars, posters and teddy bears too).
If you're interested, would you try these out and give me your thoughts?
The iPhone, which I have previewed before, is going on sale today. Would be very interesting to hear what are the first impressions of consumers buying it.
Have you? What do you think of it?
Interesting article about how American class divisions are reflected in the usage patterns of Facebook and MySpace. I still found it very interesting, as it is true that the way we use our tools reflect our societies..
Some traditional media (here, here) have picked up the story, but I'd rather read the whole essay, as I don't like the spin they put to it.
Via Slashdot.