Apparently April 7th 1969 is a contender for the birth of the internet, who new it was so old. Here’s a pretty funny video from Canadian CBC news, not sure when this was broadcast but it is pretty damn funny.
Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.
Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.
The thing that continues to blow me away is still how early and nascent internet technology is, I don’t know what the future holds but i’m certain that in 10 years we will look back on the hype around social networks like facebook and myspace, thinking “oh how naive we were”.
All of your favorite internet stars including Chocolate Rain guy (Tay Zonday), Star Wars Kid, Laughing baby, Sneezing Panda, Tron guy, Numa Numa, and Chris Cocker (Leave Britney Alone), and possibly LonelyGirl15 in the background.
This video is so extraordinary and strange, it essentially acts out the history of wars (from an American perspective) from WWII onward using the various foods associated with the warring nations. This kind of short form, bite sized entertainment is so ideal on the internet, and even via mobile it makes me wonder what kind of company or eco system is going to enable and capitalize on this more.
LOL, this is pretty damn funny, wear headphones if your at work because as usual he does slip a naughty word in there.
As it happens I just came across a report about mobile tv watchers which claims that Ex-mobile tv watchers are outpacing new mobile tv watchers. In other words more people are dropping the service than starting it. Apparently the things that are driving people away are issues of reliability and quality:
After price, former mobile users cite quality and reliability as the second most important reason for their disenchantment.
That being said 60% said they would sign up again if the quality and reliability improved.
After 7 days over Christmas back country motorcycle touring in Vietnam, 4 days on Koh Panang for the full moon party, and 3 days in Bangkok i’m back, i’ve actually been back a week but have been unable to construct the summary blog post. My vacation has left me speechless and a little humbled, the people that i’ve met and the circumstances of their lives had quite an impact on me. Vietnam especially left me in awe of people in the countryside who live extraordinarily difficult lives but were so incredibly hospitable and happy it just blew me and my friends away. Believe it or not once you get outside of the major cities westerners are few and far between, I think we saw 3 westerners in 6 days, so every village we stopped in we were an oddity, people would come out of their houses to look at us, and even some of the most pensive faces would crack a huge smile if you just waved your hand and said hello. Here are a few of my fav pics from Vietnam, feel free to check out the rest of the Vietnam pictures here and the Thailand pictures here. If you are interested in a trip like this you should check out Off Road Vietnam. Vietnam is growing at a tremendous rate at the moment and like China has discovered free market economics, it is suggested that if you want to see rural Vietnam as it is now you will need to do it in the next 10 years.
Oh, and we also really got to eat very well… here’s some video of me eating a fertilized duck egg for breakfast
(i’ll be uploading more videos to karllong.blip.tv and hopefully me and my buddies will put a proper edit together of our adventures as we have a tonne of footage)
Well I’m just getting ready to leave for the airport, I have a midnight flight to Taipei and then on to Vietnam for a motorcycle tour through the northwest mountains. I don’t think i’ll be blogging much but i’ll try and keep flickr and twitter updated via my N95 8gig Hopefully I can keep my batteries charged both literally and figuratively for the Full Moon party in Thailand which is the destination for new years eve. So here’s wishing you all an early Merry Christmas, happy holidays and an excellent New Year.
LOL, is it me or is this guy taking some swipes at scoble:
“blogging even if your wrong” when scoble was talking about search and then the closing classic picture of scoble leaving the apple store in triumph with the iPhone?
Is there a bubble, absolutely, but as with all bubbles there are some companies that are doing brilliant work and are creating tremendous value. The trick is to pick the companies that are creating real “value”, and IMHO I would avoid business models that rely on driving people to advertisers. Yes, yes, I know Google, but I actually think Google creates value by connecting people with what they need, advertising is secondary, a fine distinction but one worth thinking about and maybe elaborating on more.
I think this is quite a fun little video that someone at Nokia has created, and as they say web 2.0 is about connecting people as it always has been. Found this via TechCrunch and Arrington thinks it’s ‘aght.
Eyelesswriter.com called up Verizon 56 times to ask two questions about their data rates and recorded the conversations. Only 1 out of 56 reps got both questions right.
Loading up the mp3 player for another month of driving with Audible - this time I'm taking suggestions from Timothy Ferriss 2008-02-03
sggst a new Audible book. Ive liked Long Tail, Blue Ocean Strat, Direct frm Dell, Google Story, Made 2 Stick, 4-hr Workwk & 7Habits was meh. 2008-01-25
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