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Music Star

sarah: By the way… Claudio got the axe on Music Star.
gregorrothfuss: LOL!!!
sarah: And please don’t tell anybody I looked that up. 🙂
gregorrothfuss: too late
gregorrothfuss: i burst out laughing
gregorrothfuss: sooryy
sarah: yeah, yeah, yeah 😉
gregorrothfuss: this is great
gregorrothfuss: anything else i need to know about under my nose?
sarah: Not that I know of, but Ill be sure to keep you informed. 🙂

2007-01-05: Music Star uses KAYWA.

Tomorrow, the third edition of Musicstar (aka American Idol, Superstar) will start on Swiss National Television. Kaywa provides the blogs for the candidates.

What’s special is that the candidates can moblog their videos right from their mobile phone and everyone can then see their flash-movies some seconds later

heh. My old startup continues to have fun projects

Collecting humans

I have been thinking about social networks for a while now. It is very nice to see my friends pondering these issues too:
Sooz

I think most of us need to be reminded that it’s important not to worry so much about how useful someone can be for you. I’d rather concern myself with just getting to know someone as a human and not worrying about the person’s usefulness in my life whether personally or professionally.

Doug

Social networks should ideally emerge first from sincere interest in others as fellow humans, not simply as nodes which exist solely to serve some agenda. The business and productivity implications/advantages of new social networks are, in my experience, directly derived from the trust established by getting to know someone first. So, let’s not put the cart before the horse. Thanks to Sooz for helping me polish my thoughts on this topic.

I agree with these sentiments and also with Jon Udell’s take. I wonder how iI will keep it all together? I collect humans was coined by Sooz, btw.
The augmented social network: Building identity and trust into the next-generation internet

Telco Mass extinction

i went shopping for a mobile contract on saturday. with the new alliance between swisscom and vodafone, i was vainly hoping that they would offer an intelligent plan for people who travel a lot and do not want to pay ridiculous roaming charges. i was especially interested in a plan that would let me have 2 numbers, 1 for switzerland and 1 for the us, while also offering me GPRS. of course, no such thing exists. which means i will be looking into VOIP solutions next. meanwhile, the telcos will have a problem on their hands too:

I was just doing some computations today on my fingers and toes on the scale of the problem of replacing voice revenue at a hypothetical telco totally unrelated to my employer:

  • Voice Revenue of hypothetical telco: $25B
  • Proportion of voice revenue that is service rather than access: 50%
  • Gartner prediction for last circuit-switched PSTN call: 2020

Assume you retain 100% of access fees, lose 100% of service fees. Assume wireless and wireline go 100% IP-based.

Some numeric prestidigitation means that on average you need to find $600m of new business EVERY YEAR for the next 17 years. This needs to be conjured up from completely new intermediary roles and new services: access revenue is already factored in. And this is just to stand still. Oh, and it’s front-loaded since most of the people who are motivated to leave because they’re paying a lot will leave in the early years. The last person with a pure circuit PSTN line will be a sad case indeed. So you’re probably looking at having to invent a new $1B business every year. Without fail.

also, dear telcos, what is your strategy for ambient virtual co-presence?