http://www.davejenkins.com SLC | Wash DC | London | Tokyo | Seoul | St Louis Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a kid, I remember how cool it was that we had two phone lines (a luxury in the 1970s).  At the time, I figured it was to facilitate compromise amongst the children, so we could use both at the same time.  Now I realize (and remember) that we weren't ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2010/03/02/wallace-jenkins-md/ I really don't like shopping.  It used to bring out my inner Marxist, but now it just incurs a low-level buzz in my head.  I've found I can keep it under control if I satiate my internet addiction every 10 minutes or so.  Many stores, however, are large window-less Faraday ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/11/26/the-case-for-free-wifi-in-retail-stores/ Every few years someone re-invents real time chat.   Back in the 70s we had teletypes in the high school computer lab.  Internet purists had IRC to keep themselves entertained in the 1980s, while the early 90 gave us AOL chat rooms for the rest of us poseurs.    Soon, we ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/11/05/google-wave-is-somewhere-in-between/ We're seeing a pattern, in political town halls, industry conferences, and even award shows: the concept of a 'panel of experts at the head of the grand ballroom dispensing wisdom to the masses' is dead.  I blame mobile phones, but we'll get to that in a minute. In August 2009, congressmen ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/09/28/death-of-the-panel-of-experts/ I read last night that I'll be recouping some of my losses after betting on Omniture a couple of years ago, with the pending buyout by Adobe.  The early take on this is that Adobe needs to pick up some ongoing subscription revenue, I am assuming because they simply cannot ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/09/16/adobe-omniture-allurent-youre-next/ I watched Amazon's acquisition of Zappos with some interest last week.  I am certainly not the first one to blog about this, and I am no doubt one of thousands of armchair pedants on the subject, but here's my take: Amazon is becoming the new EDI for online retail, and ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/08/15/amazon-is-the-new-edi/ Okay, that was a pretty lame title, but it's actually the most clear way to express the question: what criteria or elements need to be in place to justify a mobile version of a website? I was talking with a friend of mine, who recently got the .mobi version of his ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/04/09/mobi-or-not-mobi/ Times are tough.  Escapism is rising. As with all depressions, movie attendance is up, Hulu actually has a shot at beating Youtube at its own game, and alcohol sales are up, as are random hook-ups.  We can see the trend on TV: two years ago, the prime-time dreck centered around ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/04/06/shopping-by-proxy/ So, the Internet is everywhere.  Times was (back in the day), that we used to surf around to websites just to see the design or some cool functionality, but we are no longer enamored with the technology (well, almost).  Futurists no longer spend their time pontificating about capacity, bandwidth, or ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/03/21/the-rise-of-the-network-biologist/ I am not sure if it is a show of weakness, or just another table-upsetting play by our old friend Son Masayoshi, but Softbank is now offering a Free 8GB iPhone as long as you sign up for the two-year data plan.  We've seen this model before: Japan pioneered the ... http://www.davejenkins.com/2009/02/25/free-iphones-in-japan/