All things digital

Twitter Derivatives

The finance industry invented them, the high tech industry develops them: derivatives.
In this case, of Twitter.

It feels to me like spontaneous growth of amoebas in a Petri dish, not sure who will kill and phagocyte whom.

What I am worried about is that this is not going to make it easier for Mr John Doe, Madame Michu and Monsieur Tout le Monde to understand any better what the heck Twitter is all about.

No wonder 60% of users never come back after one month.

For myself, I just decided to use Twitter to increase the world beauty by posting a weekly digital poem here.

As for the Twitter Derivatives, here is list where I will keep logging those I get to find. Feel free to add your own as comments.

Flock browser - more here
Twitmatic - more here
Twittering Too Hard - more here
StockTwitt - more here

Happ.in - more here

More coming soon

Cisco buys Scientific-Atlanta

So Cisco is buying Scientific-Atlanta? This acquisition tells us - and validates - the advent of IP as a mature transport protocol. Growing beyond the Internet and data traffic, the IP standard has acquired over the years its maturity to carry Voice, and now Video. Read what I wrote about who shall be the winner in this acquisition - at least in the US market.

The encoder business is evolving

It used to be that the video encoder component of the digital head end was a key - and expensive - piece of the digital broadcast video delivery chain. The quality of the encoding continues to be dependent on this system sub-component, but see what I wrote about the business trends and forces affecting this market.

The Art of Digital Music

My friend Kelli Richards has published a book about "Digital Music". Interviewees include BT, Ted Cohen, the Crystal Method, Bob Ezrin, Jim Griffin, Herbie Hancock, Ray Kurzweil, Alan Parsons, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren, and a huge range of others. With the foreword by Stewart Copeland of The Police, there's something for everyone here!

It's been getting fantastic reviews and has consistently been ranked #1 in the digital music section on Amazon. 
For more background on the book, please see www.ArtOfDigitalMusic.com or the
Amazon page, http://snipurl.com/digitalmusic.

IPTV and BroadbandTV: Herve interviewed on KPBS San Diego

KPBS San Diego, an affiliate of NR, was kind enough to invite me to speak on their show "These Days" which airs daily, hosted by Tom Fudge. You can find details about this program here. The page includes the MP3 file of the segment, and you can also download it here:  Download news.mediaplayer.m3u
(c) 2005 anc courtesy KPBS San Diego