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• Finally some Nokia Symbian phones get Skype. Not ready for touch applications! – I was a little surprised to see Skype for Symbian finally being released as a limited beta and not being available for the N97. In fact looks like all "touch" versions are currently unsupported. That's sort of where the future is and it suggests to me that this took too long to get out of the gestation period. Or is there a developer issue or set of challenges for the "touchscreens"? Will add to my N95 and see how we go.

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• Teens Love Facebook, Hate Blogging, Are Always Online, and Don’t Use Twitter | "online" is missleading here re mobile – Nice update with no real surprises yet this article fails to differentiate or clarify what "online" means. They say everyone goes online. That is not the same as teens going online with mobiles. Multi-channel communications becomes really interesting at that point.

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• Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks – CLIPS: "…. the importance of hubs may have been overstated, say Kitsak and pals. "In contrast to common belief, the most influential spreaders in a social network do not correspond to the best connected people or to the most central people," they say.

  At first glance this seems somewhat counter intuitive but on reflection it makes perfect sense. Kitsak and co point out that there are various scenarios in which well connected hubs have little influence over the spread of information. "For example, if a hub exists at the end of a branch at the periphery of a network, it will have a minimal impact in the spreading process through the core of the network."

  By contrast, "a less connected person who is strategically placed in the core of the network will have a significant effect that leads to dissemination through a large fraction of the population." The question then is how to find these influential individuals."

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• iPad: The (attempted) Windows killer by Michael Mace – if you need to read anymore… on this subject. – If they really believe all of those things, then the iPad starts to look like Apple's idea of the next logical stage in the evolution of personal computing. It takes everything Apple learned from iPod and iPhone and applies that to a redesign of the low-end personal computer. It's Apple's vision of the netpad done right — not a PC accessory, but a lightweight portable device that can replace the PC for many basic usages. The idea wouldn't be to kill the PC outright, but to nudge it toward the workstation space, in the process gradually eating away at the market share of Windows.
• Mobile Phone Market Shares for year of 2009 | Units! That’s a lot of mobiles. – Tomi Ahonen puts together a set of mobile share numbers for 2009. This is a unit focus, rather than $share or some other metric that might show (particularly for smartphones) real differences in how different phones are used. Eg share of occasions, number of hours used… browsing minutes.. number on a 3G plan etc. Different phone perform in different ways. EG it is easy to understand why BBM has become very popular in some markets. Development and movement to SmartPhones market to market is also uneven and buried in these global totals.
• Apple’s iPad: Why iAttaché Would Have More Cachet! | @jimcanuck great thoughtful reveiw – There are many many iPad reviews out now. While iAttache is an interesting metaphor, I'm happy to watch Apple fight to use the rights to the iPad name.
• Proposal for Fixing Multitasking in iPad/iPhone OS | Seems like a sensible suggestion? Comments? – "The answer for the iPad is neither full multitasking or no multitasking of any kind. The answer is to classify a certain kind of application as a Service that can be called upon from within any other app. Mac OS X does this to limited effect (seen above), NeXTStep did it better, but the gist is a contextual, useful function not contained within the primary application. Imagine that primary-use apps (think iWork-level) are designed with a button labeled “Services” that you can tap which brings up a pane listing all available programs and tasks that can be run in parallel with it. It would then instantiate that Service as a Widget on the side of the screen, up to two at a time. (You could imagine iPhone Safari and Pandora both at once, for example). To switch the list, you would then, hold down the home button to bring up close boxes at the upper-left corner."

So when will the free marketing stop? How many videos are there now? No one will be confused about the iPad when it is actually available. All will know it works like an iPhone although is really a big iPod Touch. It may not have everything and yet that is little to worry about. What videos will emerge when it launches? Video re Netbook? Video re Desktop? Video with child in Africa? Flying carpets? Get ready for them.

Pee-wee Gets An iPad! from Pee-wee Herman and Eric Appel – Video.

Thanks to @johnrichards for pointer

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• Calling non-USA based women activists – CLIP: "Today I'm proud to announce the BlogHer 2010 International Activist Scholarship Program. Here's how it works: If you or someone you know is a woman blogger, outside the United States, blogging to raise awareness, consciousness or funding to change their community, region, country or the world, then please nominate yourself or such a blogger to win one of these four scholarships.

  Scholarship Winners Will Receive:

  * A full 2-day conference pass to BlogHer '10
  * Round trip airfare to and from New York, NY for the BlogHer '10 annual conference
  * 2 nights stay at the New York Hilton during the conference
  * The opportunity to present their work during a prominently-scheduled session at BlogHer '10

  The Criteria:

  If you review the nomination form, you'll see that we're asking you to describe not only the mission of the blog/blogger and how they are effecting change, but also how they could benefit from their BlogHer experience."

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• .@DocSearls writes Up the creek without an iPaddle | Agree so lets promote the strategies that make the alternative appealing. – "What you also have to appreciate is how much we also need the horizontal one. The iPad needs an open alternative, soon. There should be for the iPad what Google’s Nexus One is for the iPhone."

  Not sure about the Nexus1 comparison. It's more to do "ease of use", "availablity", "simplicity". We should be concerned – iPad is a very closed system (which will be jailbroken but that matters little) and yet as a "tool" it will simplify training and adoption. Eg as the clipboard or many other replacements. iPHones and iPods train the users. It's a good bet and developers can see the opportunity.

  The N900 is a good example of what could take it on… however development is glacially slow and Nokia is playing copycat rather than applying / developing a winning strategy. Open is their best chance – particularly given their base.

• iPad Will Change How We Make Music | Good examples where functionality and cost win. –
• Jaron Lanier’s manifesto for the tech consumer "You are not a Gadget" | Anyone read it? Thoughts? –

Final hiccups solved!  Ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I’ve been struggling to get my netconnect broadband modem to work as well as it previously did.  I’ve blogged about my initial hiccups, where I thought I’d found a great solution.  Well it worked, but my speeds have been abysmal.  Called Reliance service guys – they couldn’t find a fix – and asked me to locate a driver at the Apple India – and there was none of course. It’s been a few months now – small mercies that this is just my travel mate, and not my main connection.

I finally figured it out. With help from someone called Guru who suggested:

So I inserted the modem, opened the folder in finder, right-clicked on the blue Reliance Netconnect icon, got into Package Contents, clicked Resources and there it was.

Installed it. Found the Reliance Netconnect icon in my Applications folder, opened it and sure enough, found my setting was set by default to the lowly High Speed Internet and not Broadband.  Changed that to Broadband + and voila – problem solved

Here’s the fix again:

Do not try to install the mobile connect application. Insert Modem, right click icon in Finder, click Show Package Contents, go to Resources and then install the file mobile_connect_drv_app.pkg.

Thank you, Guru – whoever you are!

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• "our habit to use substantive words that express a function, a social status or state, rather than essence" – JfNoubel – "I recommended we don’t use much the word user in the flowplace and in any other piece of software we create, but that we replace it with essence-based words, as acknowledging the sacredness at every corner of our languaging of the world. Person is definitely one of these words."

This is an incredibly important set of points re joining the flow. The quotes below represent JF’s thinking (and I’ve already bookmarked his previous post in Delicious). If you are thinking about “flow” you cannot miss reading the FAQ on FlowPlace.

We operate exactly the same with knowledge. We accumulate knowledge in our inner basement. Knowledge that was first poured in our heads at school (this is the dominant vision of school programs in most cultures). How much of it do we really make publicly available? How much do we freely redistribute? How trained are we to pass it on, naturally, fluidly? These new social media and free economies are so odd in regards to what we learned at school…..

later in the same post..

The evolutionary threshold is that now we can scale up the properties of original collective intelligence (and still benefit from the amazing evolutions of pyramidal collective intelligence). We are now on the verge of inventing the language of flows, so that wealth can flow through us at the right time according to our needs, rather than accumulate in our backyards after a long and exhausting hunt for scarce money.

This new level of complexity requires a new techno-economic infrastructure. Just like the printing press, this is going to create a new culture.

via From owning to flowing.