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Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007

Google acquires Jaiku.

A fine microblogging service, but probably more important is the fact that on phones, it's a presence-aware contact list, and that's something darn cool.

"Activity streams and mobile presence are important areas where we believe Google can add a lot of value for users."

2007-10-09-jaijai

Gabe Rivera: "I wish it were obvious, but there's no such thing as an unbiased automated news site (or search engine for that matter). Automation doesn't remove bias, it merely obscures it."

In not completely unrelated news, Dave Winer notes: "Feedburner reports that 609K people subscribe to the TechCrunch feed. When I got a prominent link from a TechCrunch piece on September 30, it generated 228 hits [...]."

Something's fishy in the land of completely opaque pseudo-metrics.

Also: Rivva resets — "Mit Ernüchterung stelle ich fest, dass 90% der entwickelten Features, wenn überhaupt, dann nur von einer Handvoll Leute genutzt wird."

2007-10-09-nubias

Daniel Kahneman: A Short Course in Thinking about Thinking

Excerpts from a 2-day "master class". I had my first DK encounter when reading Fooled by Randomness (one of only a hand-ful of truly re-settling reading experiences). Affective Forecasting and how bad we're at it is also a topic in Strangers to Ourselves (which I still haven't finished but nevertheless recommend).

2007-10-09-castaFore

"As a child, [Charles Berlitz] was raised in a household in which (by his father's orders) every relative and servant spoke to [him] in a different language: he reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. In adulthood, he recalled having the childhood delusion that every human being spoke a different language, and wondering why he did not have his own language like everyone else in his household."

2007-10-09-berlitz

hns 6253 days AGO
Das Tolle an der Jaiku Geschichte ist, dass Kontakt-DB und GSM-Location hacken praktisch jeder kann. Zumindest jeder mit einem Symbian Zertifikat. Hab mir heute ein gratis DevCert zugelegt (geht eh relativ schnell und einfach). Damit darf ich auch in die geschützen Ecken von meinem (allerdings eben leider nur meinem) Handy:

>>> import location
>>> location.gsm_location()
(232, 5, 183, 19424)
>>> import contacts
>>> db=contacts.open()
>>> for id in db:
... print 'Contact: %s'%db[id]
...
Contact: <Contact #1: "Auskunft">
Contact: <Contact #2: " AUSKUNFT">
Contact: <Contact #3: "Int.Auskft">
...

Leider mangelt es noch etwas an ernstzunehmenden GSM-Location-DBs.

chris 6253 days AGO
Wow, so einfach geht das!

Fast schon Grund genug, mein zunehmend wackliges Moto auch mit einem PyPhone zu ersetzen ...

hns 6253 days AGO
Naja, Symbian ist schon leider eine ziemliche Festung. Viele seltsame Kräfte sind da am Arbeiten.

earl 6253 days AGO
seltsame kraefte wirklich. mir steten schmerz bereitet die S60 vs UIQ sache, bin da scheinbar mit meinem geraet auf der falschen seite gelandet. das gras am S60 huegel schaut gruener aus ...

gavin 6253 days AGO
Chris, do you Jaiku?

chris 6253 days AGO
Yes, extensively!

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