Tag: KAYWA

Real time enterprise

For many organizations little has changed, and executives are still making key decisions based on batches of sales, manufacturing, and other critical data that is days, weeks, or even months old. In an information-driven economy, where competitors are acting on what’s happening now and not what happened last month, the batch approach just isn’t good enough.
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<silvan> ego ego in the chat, did they fill our purse yet?
<kwaEgo> Dear silvan, the purse is as full as CHF 27.50

KAYWA in the news

my friend martin hitz wrote a nice article about moblogging for nzz. it mentions KAYWA.

the Swiss start-up Kaywa make it possible to post pictures and short texts via MMS or GPRS email directly from your mobile phone on the Internet. While conventional weblogs have meanwhile blossomed from a simple diary to a format to be taken seriously, also for serious content and are now also used by politicians, stars and journalists, the mobloggers are starting again at field one. No event banal enough, no holiday experience too personal and no picture too blurry not to appear in a moblog. More or less sharp photos of conferences, family celebrations and techno parties are published there

Visitor geography

Montevideo, , UY
Amsterdam, , NL
Chantilly, Virginia, US
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Newark, New Jersey, US
Redmond, Washington, US
Zurich, Zurich, CH
San Antonio, Texas, US
Foster City, California, US
Amsterdam, North Holland, NL
Pasadena, California, US
Princeton, New Jersey, US
Reston, Virginia, US
Fairfax, Virginia, US
Plano, Texas, US
Creve Coeur, Missouri, US
San Jose, California, US
Wellesley, Massachusetts, US
Milton, New South Wales, AU
Milton, , AU
Vaasa, Vaasa, FI
Palo Alto, California, US
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, US
are some of my recent visitors, per CAIDA. the mapping between IP addresses and coordinates is far from perfect though. this will not change until GPSML or similar services are baked into the internet infrastructure. collecting geographical data on the side and correlating it with your posts (and those of others, think neighborhood aggregators) strikes me as an interesting experiment in spatial serendipity.

fun with blogrolls

i tried to synchronize between my newsfeeds and blogrolling.com, using their OPML import feature. unfortunately, it does not work. not even with special tools.
as usual, the workable solution was to install yet another MT plugin, do yet another scp to get my OPML from my aggregator onto my blog, which then gets rendered as my blogroll. so far so good, but i hate to do all this crap again to keep the 2 in sync. this weblog stuff is still far too fragmented. we need better integration.
i also added a new blogroll link tag to my template in the hope that some interesting autodiscovery (like autofoaf) will go on. it seems there is no consensus on the tag as of yet though, some use type=”text/x-opml”, others type=”application/opml+xml”

etoy on kaywa

the etoy.CORPORATION welcomes KAYWA as the official sponsor of all etoy blogging systems. as a distributed global network the etoy.CORPORATION has long faced the challenge of creating a liquid flow of assets (knowledge, info, power, expertise, and resources) between etoy.AGENTS, over the net, and from one etoy.TANK to another.

very cool.

blogs and style

here are the notes from the panel i was on at seybold for some stupid reason, they are keeping the slides to themselves behind a password:
why i blog?
– first note taking
– short attention span
– exotic hobby, no one i knew personally was doing it
– more and more interaction with others
– serendipity is my big thing now
– got more and more interested in blog infrastructure
– not what is obvious (posts), but what is harder to see: interactions, patterns,
– immediacy is important
– “i was there”
– discovery of context, very local
– led to more mobile uses of blog.
– a picture has higher emotional quality
– who cares about pictures once you are home
my tool
– kaywa: focusing on the swiss market where picture phones and mobile us e is big. not too many weblogs yet
– we are php guys with a strong interest in xml
– we were not happy with the usability of existing tools, although mt comes close
– we want to make it easy to publish from your mobile
– pictures integrated
– involved with internet art
– very picture-driven -> perfect use of moblog
– lower barrier to entry
– strikes me as a very consumer thing, taking pictures & uploading them.
– interest from realtors, doctors