I just received the first mail on the Jason Calacanis mailing list, which was really good e-mail with pro-tips for how to demo start-ups. I definitely recommend people signing up for the mailing list at https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/jason. I can’t link to the mail obviously, so I thought I’d post it here (just received Jason’s permission in my inbox) for people to have a look at - as always, Jason knows what he’s talking about. If you’re not into the topic, the post is still worth reading just for the no-nonsense attitude, which is quite funny (e.g. “If your product demo takes more than five minutes to demo, it probably sucks.”).
A reader of this blog recently contacted me to get some help with getting his new HTC Touch Diamond working with ZYB. It took me three weeks to reply (I was away on holiday, so far away that they didn’t even have broadband) and when I finally replied, I told him that I didn’t have a solution unfortunately. He then wrote back to me telling me that he had been in touch with ZYB customer support who had directed him to a solution! Now my ZYB contacts and calendar is in sync with my HTC Touch Diamond…
I recently attended a one-day training session in Sweden. It was a functional rather than a technical session, so not really tailored for me, but it was really good to see things from a user perspective. The lesson learned (apart from a lot about PA/OM in SAP) was that you really have to remember to control your inner geek…
After work today, I decided I wanted to install the Sony-Ericsson PC Suite on my work laptop, so I could synchronize my Outlook calendar/notes etc. onto my private phone. Now, Sony-Ericsson must not have liked my last post about switching to the HTC Touch Diamond, because installing the SE PC Suite turned out to be a really bad idea…
I haven’t really been following the hardware side of the mobile phone market and yesterday when I was looking for my next phone I stumbled upon a site which had all the specs. And wow, the specs are so much higher than expected…
One of the things that is annoying about following tech news is that most of the new technologies presented to the market mostly happens in the U.S. or Asia. No iPhone (not that I want one), no TiVo, no movie rentals on iTunes (well… See hack in this post), no NetFlix, nothing..!
It’s relatively simple: Create a U.S. iTunes account but don’t give out your credit card. To get money into your account, buy gift certificates via e.g. eBay. Now, you can rent movies in HD for less than it would cost to go to the store and rent a regular DVD in Denmark ($5). And you get most of the titles earlier than you would in Denmark too.
Why they don’t look at your IP address when renting movies shows that this is a loop-hole Apple wants you to have access to. And that the digital world can’t be divided into countries, so they might as well stop trying…
With all the talks about OOXML vs. ODF and the fact that Microsoft has decided to implement ODF support, some people have mentioned a really interesting tactic used by Microsoft on several earlier occasions, which I though was worth sharing: Embrace, extend and extinguish. Interesting read!
I’m trying to suppress my Apple hatred on this blog, but today it’s too hard… Here’s a very well-dugg story (direct link to article) with absolutely no content - the screenshot above pretty much says it all. But on Digg, it’s still frontpage news. The story is about a beta version of Safari on the iPhone adding support for downloading images from websites… Come on - my last four phones have supported that! It is not newsworthy!
Now, the story could also have been titled “Apple lets you decide what content to put on your own device” - if that happened, that would be worthy of frontpage news…
On the other hand, I could stop complaining about Apple and remove Apple news from the main Digg page… Done!
Lars Ottesen Henriksen is a Civil Engineer in Data Technology from the University of Southern Denmark. He currently works in Copenhagen, but still lives in Odense which means he spends 4 hours on the train each day. Sometimes this time is used for writing, which is what you see above. > More
