- just a thought... why not use SMS to warn people of natural disasters like a tsunami? For all the talk of complex warning systems it would seem that communication is probably the easiest thing to handle.
- this is probably less like American Idol and more like venture capital meeting The Apprentice minus Trump. Interesting concept, they should do it in the Valley though.
- I was mentioned in a cover story about VC bloggers in the current edition of Venture Capital Journal, which was then commented on by Siliconbeat which included a far more interesting link to VentureWiki. I'm going to be watching this develop, I am a big fan of wikis.
- I doubt this lawsuit against Apple will go far... but who knows what can happen in California's courts.
- read your gmail message subjects with an RSS reader. Cool.
- iPod adapters at CES are a big hit... old news for this blog, I reported about iPod aftermarket a couple of months ago ;)
- Be like one of those hip reporters for CNN, get your own satellite phone for a price that seems pretty reasonable.
- repeat after me: podcasting is not webcasting.
- I heard something about Kawasaki paying bloggers to pitch his book, don't know if there is any substance to that. TJ, tell me you didn't sell out!
- every new year brings a proclamation that this year will be the year for mobile content, they usually then make another proclamation about micropayments. Personally, I tend to think about things in their aggregate, which is why I won't pay t-mobile $20 a month for hotspot access. In order for mobile content to catch on, I do agree with this article that suggests the pricing model is all wrong.
- driverless vehicles in France... what's the point if you can't drive it yourself?
I wanted to wait to develop my product a lot more before i started shopping it around, but since you seem to like venturewiki,
what do you think PhatInvestor..
It's mostly a prototype.. I have a host of ideas i want to expand it to be
Posted by: ravi | Jan 06, 2005 at 02:30 PM
I've checked out PhatInvestor before, I like it. You are capturing a lot of blog content and apply organization, it's part of my daily reading.
I like venturewiki because it has the potential to be a sourcebook for key concepts and discussion around the venture business, the 2 sites together are very complimentary.
Posted by: jeff | Jan 06, 2005 at 02:34 PM
European pager networks typically guarantee to deliver the message in less then 30 seconds. European SMS networks typically aim to deliver the message in less than 24 hours. Most of the time they do much better than this, but there are no promises.
The closing down of the pager networks is becoming a real problem for people like the Lifeboats where a 24 hour delay in responding to a distress call is not really acceptable. For similar reasons SMS is uncool for warning of disasters.
However, the makers of GSM thought of this and the network has the ability to do an emergency cell broadcast. Only trouble is that some handsets may not alert you to an incoming emergency message, and others may (mistakenly) require you to subscribe to the cell broadcast first. But largely it should work and is the way to go.
Anybody know if this is supported by all network standards (i.e. non-GSM networks)?
Posted by: Allan | Jan 07, 2005 at 08:21 AM
there you go... looks like SMS could be one of the communication channels in an emergency broadcast protocol (which isn't surprising as not everyone has a cell phone).
Thanks for the info.
Posted by: jeff | Jan 07, 2005 at 09:02 AM