I put this online a while ago, but I decided to revverize it. If you watch it, click the ad at the end so I can get paid!
A couple of thoughts on software expandability, vis a vis discussions about the iPhone. I agree that allowing third party developers to create applications for the iPhone would be fantastic. However, I think some of the criticisms leveled against the iPod as being a ‘closed platform’ are a bit unfounded.
Dave Winer says:
The iPod is a wonderful product, but damn it’s time we made one that could run our software, could run any software, so users have choice, and so you don’t have to buy new hardware to get software features, and so the market can grow at the rate of innovation, not at the whim of one marketer.
The iPod is a *music* platform, and in that case, it is completely open. Sure, buying songs from the iTunes Store includes proprietary DRM, but the iPod functions perfectly well with every popular music format you throw at it, sans DRM.
So for the thing the iPod was designed to do, it is an open platform. Look at the podcasting phenomenon. The iPod didn’t need to be an open software platform to enable that innovation.
I think (or hope) that when the iPhone is released, its perceived limitations as a software platform will likely reveal opportunities in the areas where it is open: music, video, internet and voice.
(these thoughts are my own and not my employer’s)
In keeping with the blog-zeitgeist, my results are in:
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Don’t know if you guys have heard about this TV pilot called “The Interior”, but their whole gimmick is that they’re casting via submissions on YouTube. At his agent’s request, my friend Ryan recently put together his … unconventional … interpretation of the audition sides. I’d recommend watching some of the other submissions to fully appreciate his interpretation.
Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
He’s clearly having fun with it (especially compared to the other melodramatic submissions), but it’s also I think a totally legitimate interpretation of the sides.
Oliver is handling the trip well…So far. We’re not even to the airport yet!
Oliver is handling the trip well…So far. We’re not even to the airport yet!
GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC WITH SPECIAL GUEST 3KSTAIC
I can’t really believe it, but my brother’s band is opening for P-funk at the House of Blues. Get your tickets here.
Awesome, some of my ITP classmates did this as their BigGames proejct: YouTube - Nintendo Amusement Park featured on MTV’s TRL. You get to BE MARIO!
Y’all remember a while back a little short documentary I filmed about the 87 pound pugilist known as Little Rick? Man, I just watched that again and it is some funny stuff. Here it is for your viewing pleasure…
I had fogotten about it completely, but I wore my Daring Fireball t-shirt to that FoodTV taping. It aired last night, and now folks are talking about it. Props to John Gruber (one of my favorite Macintosh bloggers) for the sweet threads!
You might recall a photoset I posted a little while ago from the chowder cook off.
Be sure to watch Throwdown with Bobby Flay on Food TV, Thu 07/13/2006 at 10:00PM EST:
Debut: Bobby Flay surprises specialty chefs, who think they are being interviewed for a Food Network show, and challenges them to a cook-off. In the opener, Bobby takes on Brooklyn chowder expert Ben Sargent.
Check it out to see who won, and if you’re lucky, a little bit of Mylo!
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