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Re: dancing elf - viral marketing :)

Riaz Kanani — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:25:26 -0000

lol

Re: Is gmail hiding the from address in google apps spam folder?

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:47:55 -0000

Hmm one thing Google Reader has improved is the speed with which it grabs posts. Within a few seconds I had added that it applied only to Gmail in Google Apps and not Gmail (and changed the post title). Google Reader shows the old title and content :(

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:46:18 -0000

Docsis 3 is the technology Virgin Media are using to achieve the 50Mbps speeds (scalable up to around 100Mbps).

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:50:14 -0000

Sky have the ability to use their satellite connection to deliver large amounts of content - they can therefore get more from the 24mbps connection than the other providers can - of course they are stuck on the upstream.

But you got me thinking further - Sky would also need to use the same ADSL 2+ connection for video on demand, which if HD quality, would chew through a lot of that bandwidth too. I had forgotten they can't do VOD.

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:21 -0000

thanks :)

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:11:45 -0000

Have you taken a look at Cachelogic? They cache popular content for ISPs at the edge of their network to help reduce those running costs. For me this is a better place to cache content than on the edge of content delivery networks like Akamai.

Of course I have no idea how well that can scale - but its a first step towards reducing the costs of delivering content using an IP based network.

Re: louis gray and friendfeed

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:53:34 -0000

I wonder whats next :)

Re: louis gray and friendfeed

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:15:52 -0000

looking forward to less friendfeed <grins> I do think you have benefited enormously from this though as you have become the figurehead for friendfeed publicly.

Re: friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:26:32 -0000

Think I am contradicting myself in this post somewhat - I prefer the ability to message back into the orginal service, and yet I am saying that users would not have to sign up for the various services.

Does that mean friendfeed is better for mainstream users?

I think I end up with the life stream aggregator being integrates at the OS or browser level (ie not a website) and all these services being able to be signed into using openID (which would allow the commenting.

Re: friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Riaz Kanani — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:08:28 -0000

the short answer is not right now - I'll give a more detailed answer in the next few posts!

Re: Rushmore Drive: An Ethnic Targeted Search Engine

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:49 -0000

lol - yea the video is bad - very bad marketing in practice :(

Re: amazon redesign - where’d the books go?

Riaz Kanani — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:43:36 -0000

hmm weird, mine does too now :) well hoorah anyhow :)

Re: what if your IP was portable?

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:43:42 -0000

true - the reverse lookup would not work.. that still requires the ability to take the IP address with you which leaves us back with changing the way the internet works at its core. The only way around that would be to have some way of broadcasting your dynamic dns identity rather than your IP address.

Re: new blog design

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:25:15 -0000

Thanks :) The previous design had 3 columns as well - but the main post area was very narrow - this layout allows me to write more without filling up the entire front page <grins>

Re: push email on an iPhone - come on gmail ;)

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:25:58 -0000

You would think so - one thing I am not expecting yet is something similar to Google Apps - allowing me to use my own domain name but using gmail as the interface. I think I would move back to Yahoo if that came out - Gmail is pretty stagnant right now and Yahoo's email platform looks the best featured. All that assumes the speed of the interface is quick though <grins>

Re: dancing elf - viral marketing :)

Riaz Kanani — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:25:26 -0000

lol

Re: Is gmail hiding the from address in google apps spam folder?

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:47:55 -0000

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:05:21 -0000

thanks :)

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:11:45 -0000

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:46:18 -0000

Docsis 3 is the technology Virgin Media are using to achieve the 50Mbps speeds (scalable up to around 100Mbps).

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:50:14 -0000

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:05:21 -0000

thanks :)

Re: TV service providers - the future

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:11:45 -0000

Re: louis gray and friendfeed

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:53:34 -0000

I wonder whats next :)

Re: louis gray and friendfeed

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:53:34 -0000

I wonder whats next :)

Re: louis gray and friendfeed

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:15:52 -0000

looking forward to less friendfeed <grins> I do think you have benefited enormously from this though as you have become the figurehead for friendfeed publicly.

Re: friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:32 -0000

Re: friendfeed or social thing? or are lifestreams a waste of time?

Riaz Kanani — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:08:28 -0000

the short answer is not right now - I'll give a more detailed answer in the next few posts!

Re: Rushmore Drive: An Ethnic Targeted Search Engine

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:49 -0000

lol - yea the video is bad - very bad marketing in practice :(

Re: Rushmore Drive: An Ethnic Targeted Search Engine

Riaz Kanani — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:06:49 -0000

lol - yea the video is bad - very bad marketing in practice :(

Re: amazon redesign - where’d the books go?

Riaz Kanani — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:43:36 -0000

hmm weird, mine does too now :) well hoorah anyhow :)

Re: what if your IP was portable?

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:43:42 -0000

Re: new blog design

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:25:15 -0000

Thanks :) The previous design had 3 columns as well - but the main post area was very narrow - this layout allows me to write more without filling up the entire front page <grins>

Re: push email on an iPhone - come on gmail ;)

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:25:58 -0000

Re: Closed is a recipe for failure

Riaz Kanani — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:49:32 -0000

I think we can be pretty sure Google and Apple are actively talking - you can't really have Google taking advantage of hidden API calls/bending app store rules without active collaboration between the two companies.

Schmidt's resignation does not change that.

The real issue is Apple's business model and it is not a new model that has just come about - this has been their model since forever - Macs are a closed environment; ipods the same. It should come as no surprise that they also want to heavily control the iphone as well.

What is interesting is that the iphone is cannabalising ipod sales (see here: http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/22/ipod.bei...). So Apple is doing to itself what the other mp3 players could never do.

Re: Closed is a recipe for failure

Riaz Kanani — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:49:39 -0000

In the mobile space, the question now is whether Google, Microsoft, Palm and Nokia are able to out innovate Apple. Over time being open definitely leads to greater innovation but it is the fast followers who often succeed over the innovators. Apple is no fast follower though - they are pure innovators so I think it likely that over time Apple will either need to be more open or be happy as a small niche cool player.

In the past they have preferred to be the niche cool player.

Re: Why books won’t die, yet.

Riaz Kanani — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:28:05 -0000

Of course it could be argued that our views are tainted by experiences growing up with books.. for comparison, will books go the way of tapes or vinyll. Tapes have effectively disappeared and you dont hear many people reminiscing over their dsiappearance like you do with vinyll. My take is that like vinyll it'll be a treasured item amongst a small niche within the next 10-15 years and that in the mainstream books will slowly disappear. Kids who enjoy books will stop having those positive experiences with physical books at a young age and will see the ebook as just the way stories etc are obtained.