Barcelona strangely absent at Computex

clipped from www.gearlog.com

Thursday June 7, 2007 AMD's Barcelona: 1.6-GHz and 'Disappointing' Categories:   Desktops & Laptops Tags:   AMD, Barcelona, Phenom

Well, give credit where credit is due, and blame where it should be as well. Apparently both Sumner Lemon of IDG and I completely missed the fact that the servers running AMD's quad-core Barcelona chip in AMD's booth showed the chip running at 1.6 GHz. DailyTech didn't, and even persuaded someone to run some quick benchmarks (off of a USB stick they smuggled in, I suspect). That 1.6-GHz figure is true; I received that number from one of AMD's partners, along with my contribution to the story: "disappointing". And that's news, if only because three of AMD's partners used that exact word in describing the chip. One partner used this term: "chaos". And these guys had AMD boards in their booth.

Taiwan getting ready for Core2 Quad

As early as May 17th, banners for Intel Core2 Quad can be found on taiwan.cnet.com.

clipped from taiwan.cnet.com CNET Button 廣告

Internet advertising firms targeted for acquisition

clipped from www.nytimes.com This is “a watershed week for advertising in general,” said Rich LeFurgy, a former Madison Avenue executive who is an online advertising consultant and investor. “The boundary between ad agencies and ad media has been breached at the highest level. That’s never happened before.” To understand how hot the market for online advertising technology has become, consider aQuantive’s stock price, which opened the year at about $25 a share. The company’s shares jumped when Google said it would buy DoubleClick for what many analysts thought was a steep price. Microsoft ultimately offered $66.50 a share in cash for aQuantive, an 85 percent premium over its closing price Thursday. Shares of aQuantive soared 78 percent yesterday, to $63.79. Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms

The way computing is meant to be

How many times have you been on the sofa watching tv wishing you could also be surfing the web? Or on the train reading the news on your phone but wishing you could clipmark it to your blog? Never? Well then this might not be for you, but for the rest of us it's nirvana!

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/photo_gallery/0,39034081,62006450-001p-1,00.htm

clipped from asia.cnet.com It's ultramobile PC day in China 19/04/2007 Wednesday was UMPC (ultramobile PC) day at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Wednesday was UMPC (ultramobile PC) day at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. Intel's Anand Chandrasekher showed off several models based on McCaslin, the 2007 version of Intel's chips for UMPCs, as well as mock-ups of devices for which it envisions using the next-generation platform, code-named Menlow. Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET News.com Slideshow:

It's just all ads

I was wondering when this would happen in indeed it finally has. Buildings with and entire LCD shell, and webpages that are a 2D pile of billboards.

"The Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam got inspired by the Million Dollar Page goldrush and is selling out a building facade one 35x29cm (about 10x10in) tile at a time, 20 euro apiece."

and

http://milliondollarhomepage.com/

clipped from adverlab.blogspot.com Million Dollar Building

Marketing with the Poor

Fascinating discussion. Click though to read instances in which Nestle worked developed a distribution network of poor, rural saleswomen in India to extend the sales reach of their milk. This benefited both the company and the rural communities.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5529.html

clipped from hbswk.hbs.edu Business and the Global Poor Published: February 5, 2007 Sean Silverthorne Author: Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have the start of an answer. But businesses that want to enter this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor.

Sometimes the imitators do it best.

Check out Rohit's analysis of Flixster and the vast array of social mechanisms its lifts directly from other successful sites.

clipped from rohitbhargava.typepad.com The Ultimate Social Network You Haven't Heard Of Ok, maybe you have ... and it just might be Flixster, a social network dedicated to film, actors, Hollywood and movie fans. The obvious question you could be wondering is how it can be "the ultimate" when there are so many other social networks that have been around longer, pull more traffic, have more users and generate more buzz? The main reason is because after using the site, you realize that they have taken what seems like every trick from every other social network, and integrated it into their own site to add to a user's experience. For example, visiting an artist's profile page with it's aggregation of images and videos has a look that reminds you of a cross between a Technorati search and a MySpace profile page. In fact, you can select a skin for your own page or add one to the system - just like you can with MySpace. Users of Netflix will recognize the rating systems for DVDs, however Flixster extends this to films that have not yet come out and includes links to trailers. The site has lots of images of actors and actresses - with a built-in scale for rating taken right from the pages of HotorNot. You can browse for specific actors, or use the Random feature to find a random page, the same powerful philosophy behind services like StumbleUpon and much of curiosity marketing. Each image and video trailer also has code included below it to cut and paste into your own blog post or other content (just like YouTube). Users can submit news stories about actors as links and other users can vote for them just like Digg and any other social news site. Oh, and you can comment on everything - photos, images and news stories. The social network element of the site is equally engaging, with the ability to search for people who like the same types of films as you (based on the results of their Movie Compatibility Test) and get in contact. The Movie Night Planner also lets you and a group friends share movie choices you would like to see, evaluate times, and rate the films based on trailers. I have railed in the past against the suckiness of some movie theater websites. Flixster is the exact opposite - a social network dedicated to movie fans with just about everything a movie fan could ever want all rolled into a single interface. About the only thing missing was the big movie advertising. That gap probably won't exist for too much longer. Sony's cool new Face of the Fan - SpiderMan Movie Network promotion could be a great first candidate ...

Intel's Future Video

Intel's vision of the near future. It looks cool, and not that far fetched. Just have to make the voice recognition more reliable and familiar.

clipped from www.engadget.com In Intel's future we wear computers, still have to work and exercise Posted Apr 13th 2007 11:05PM by Paul Miller Intel's got a whole bunch of fancy ideas for the wearable and ultramobile computers of the future in this cute little conceptual video it pushed to the YouTubes. Thankfully Intel escaped the oh-so-tried Minority Report concepts and skipped straight to wrist-based computers and a myriad of OQO and iPhone look-alikes. Mostly it's just a ploy to promote Intel's upcoming McCaslin UMPC platform, which can do few of the actions depicted, but it's always fun to peep one manufacturer's vision of the future, no matter how unlikely or impractical its vision might be. Peep the video after the break. [Via GigaOM; thanks Dillon] Read Permalink