可攜式號碼與 WiFi 手機

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/002218.html
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,60519,00.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2003/09/20/2003068584
http://www.dgt.gov.tw/Chinese/News-press/92/press-dgtnews-920919-1.shtml
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2003-09-18-wireless-ad-war_x.htm
http://www.find.org.tw/0105/news/0105_news_disp.asp?news_id=2807
http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=41163

Moblogging this Weekend

週一早上回到網路前,真是千頭萬緒。將行囊卸下後,趕緊將 moblogging(行動網誌)的部分挑了幾張上傳。Aiko(nokia 3650) 第一次到海邊小試身手,照出來的色調似乎開始有些問題。看來該是將鏡頭保護膜拿掉的時候了。:)

Image(fruit).jpg Image(hand).jpg Image(kites2).jpg Image(lightwalker).jpg

相關行動網誌:moblog.typepad.commoblog.schee.info

後記:聽說 UDN 在週末報了blog(Jedi, go!)?Hmm(good for them)…我還是比較習慣在網路上看新聞。今日新聞彙整繼續準時出刊。;)

後記二:拍到了整隊愚蠢的 Ford Escape 車主恣意在沙灘潮間帶輾過微小生物和生命的「壯舉」。當時怒氣大起,可惜無能即時阻礙。容後整理再報告。

Sony Ericsson P810/900

p810.jpeg Sony Ericsson 的網站上不小心把 P810/900 的資訊洩漏出來,但沒一會又將 flash 的介紹整個拿掉。但眼迅手快的技客,還是把螢幕抓了下來,並且分別在瑞典和挪威發布新聞。Bilder och filmer på Sony Ericsson P810/P900(瑞典文)、P800 successor blooper by Sony Ericsson(英文):我懷疑這是放風聲的舉動,而不是什麼烏龍。 規格:208 x 320 pixel resolution, 16-bit colour TFT display, physical measurements of 158 g and 115 x 57 x 23 mm, supports MMS, WAP 2.0, XHTML, J2ME integrated Bluetooth and an integrated digital camera. Also, it will feature tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz, as well as support for GPRS 4+1, and offer standby and talk times of respectively 400 and 13 hours.

看:今年六月 mobileburn.com 的報導。

又見 OhMyNews.com

目前關於韓國 ohmynews.com 最完整的英文訪談報導:OhmyNews Makes Every Citizen a Reporter

When it first launched, “the conventional media did not understand it, and there was an atmosphere that treated OhmyNews as heresy, saying, ‘What the hell is that?,'" he said.

這個狀況聽起來是不是有點像人們常問的:「 blog 是什麼鬼玩意?

另外 ohmynews 也不是慈善事業:

Q: How much is your revenue and what is the source?

A: Our income is about 2.6 billion won (about $2.2 million) a month and expenses are about 2.5 billion won (about $2.1 million), so 10 million won (about $8,525) in the black per month. Seventy percent of the overall income comes from advertisements.

有其他更詳細的中文資訊嗎?

延伸閱讀:號角月報〈網站新聞揭示 新世代新聞觀〉、查詢 “ohmynews" 關鍵字在 hanteng 的 blog
Bonus: NY Times 的 RSS

新聞彙整(20030918)

以下為今日的新聞彙整:

* 路透社:英國廣播公司承認在伊拉克案中報導疏失
* 苦勞網:移民與女性─人權問題?政治問題?
* Frey: 我的手機簡史
* 中時電子報:市區郊區 統一速限50公里
* BoingBoing.net: Kid’s Moblogging from Paris
* Haaretz: Big Brother is watching you – and documenting
* Boston Globe: Taiwan deserves a UN seat
* Dave Winer: Blogroll for BloggerCon

焦點網站:歐亞交流網(中文)
網友推薦網站:椎名林檎『性』(日文)

Futuristic Nokia Phone Designs

抱歉,我是 Nokia 的 loyal fan。:) 看起來如何?Hmm… 可是近來 Nokia 的設計似乎開始停滯不前,遠遠落後於韓系和日系的手機。Mobitopia 上的 Russell Beattie 給了我們一個方向:Has Nokia Phone Design Stalled?

Nokia_MR2.jpg Nokia_MR4.jpg Nokia_2.jpg

如果你也是使用 Nokia 3650,那麼不妨一讀:Using your Nokia 3650 as a Portable Office。內容中所提到的 tipic IMWireless IRC,之前都在 Schee.info 上介紹過。

圖片來源:AreaMobile.de

行書的打包?

行書 – 書的旅行

直接切入主題。書兒們一路行來,不若高躺在溫控的架上親戚們,必有折損。折損程只會更多,不會回春。要如何做到合理的損害管制並且顧及釋書者的方便(sorting out a viable solution),這似乎是門藝術。正如撰寫 community wiki:"seeding" 是個重要的步驟 – 我想,行書的打包會不會也是個有趣的子課題(reusability)?

eBay(US) Booksellers’ Discussion Board;來好好 survey 一下可行的方案。

行書之私(思)

– Posted by Clay Shirky at 10:00 PM

The Distributed Library Project is an attempt to get individuals to register books they would be willing to lend out to one another, in the manner of a library.

Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn’t do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like – you’ll probably get shushed. The Distributed Library Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the library depends on interaction.

What’s interesting to me is that if it recapitulates a regular library, where users simply have access to the book lists, it will fail in exactly the manner the famous white bicycles of Amsterdam did, where white bicycles would be left in the street for “the community” to use. The problem is that communities don’t ride bicycles, people do.

The white bicycle idea was tried in the late 60’s and again in the late 90s, and failed both times because of the collective action problem (w00t Mancur Olson w00t!) — it would be to everyone’s benefit to have community-owned bicycles freely available, but it would be of much more benefit to each individual to own their own bike, so the bikes were (duh) stolen.

The books in the DLP will be stolen too, even if through inertia, e.g. I forgot to return the copy of 1984 I borrowed, and the owner rightly figured that the hassle of getting it back would have a higher opportunity cost than the value of having it back.

The one potential saving grace will be the DLP’s attempt not to recreate a standard library, but to include a repuation system and book recommendations as a way to punish defectors:

While this is a community site based on good will, we have an ebay-style feedback system for managing trust. Lenders have the opportunity to leave positive or negative feedback for borrowers when an item is returned. These positive or negative points contribute to an overall “score” which lenders can use to gauge the trustworthiness or responsibility of a borrower. Lenders can also leave comments along with the points to be more specific.

We know that humans will punish defectors even when it is costly to do so [PDF], but we don’t know if book-borrowing creates enough value to trigger that altruistic behavior. With the DLP, however, we may find out.

Technical Documentation Weirdness

維修或技術手冊上令人不知該笑或是該哭的圖示(也有好些非常棒的 pictograms) – 來自 Darren

On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation, particularly illustration…

家電用品中,似乎日系和歐系的說明書都特別有閱讀的樂趣。幾年前買的一雙 AXO 越野手套詳細標示出 abrasion(摩擦抵抗)、punctuation(穿刺抵禦),還有 impact(衝擊忍受) 三方面的測試等級。手套的袋子裡,也會放上一張多語言的使用說明書。身為物品的購買者,我會因為看到這些詳細的技術手冊而感到備受尊敬。可是反觀在國內的購物經驗呢?是我們太會想辦法自己DIY了還是?或者 documentation 總會算是沒有經濟效益的土功夫?

資源:EdwardTufte.com

再度更新版面

每季一改版,希望能提供更為舒服和能夠快速找到所需資訊的美妙閱讀經驗。Opera 7.11 以上收視還有一些小問題。持續努力。如果你認為「哪裡」很礙眼,或是瀏覽動線過於詭異,請告訴我。:)

兩大站的大小轉變和不變 – news.com 和 chinatimes.com

news.com 改版,開始有 blog 形式的 “journal",然而在上個月底,中時電子報的總監黃哲斌也嘗試了在新聞(摘選)關鍵字中加註連結的做法。可惜的是,兩者同樣都只願意連結到自己站內的新聞。這到底是為什麼呢(笑)?Care to read〈The Guardian of the Web〉?

Bonus: 蕃薯藤專題/小編看網事〈網路新名詞:部落格(blog)

民生報:手機拍照 上網玩花樣

Is this all you can come up with? Wake up and see the world.

手機隨身拍下的精采生活片段,如果還能加點創意玩邊框、做特效就更好了,偏偏並非每支照相手機都內建有影像編輯功能;沒關係,現在上網就行,中華、遠傳電信紛紛推出相片編輯功能,靜態的照片上網不只能加框、變浮雕、變油畫、換表情,還能做成連續動畫,玩個痛快!

註:中華電信的 emome is dead at this time. 手機拍照 上網玩花樣【記者龔小文/報導】

中華電信把既有的「我的相片簿」升級,拍好的照片上傳可以剪裁、旋轉、加框或浮雕、碳筆油畫、模糊化、銳利等特效,共有36種調變效果可選,原本靜態的照片還可以連拍製作成生動活潑的動畫,或讓系統幫你搞定,不用傷腦筋。

做好了圖還可以加入音樂、文字,用MMS一次傳送給多人,上網編輯圖片不用額外費用,全部比照MMS依檔案大小收費,30K以內網內4元、網外6元,超過30K每1K網內加收0.12元、網外0.18元。

遠傳的「MMS動畫工場」和中華電信的圖片編輯一樣由甲尚科技提供,只要準備一張照片,就能變出各種搞怪的表情動畫,也有多種邊框和表情符號任你搭配。

不過,遠傳的圖片編輯另外要收取資訊使用費,每則10元,MMS傳送費則依檔案大小計算,30K以內網內5元、網外7元,超過30K網內以每1K 0.18元、網外0.24元。

手機玩影像成趨勢,台哥大、和信近日則將推出手機大頭貼沖印服務

【2003/09/16 民生報】

手機的變臉戰術

nokia3200.jpegKeith Nowak,Nokia 發言人在接受華爾街日報的的訪問時表示:"faceplates, interchangeable plastic covers that snap on and off of cellphones, are an important part of our business. Of the 152 million phones Nokia sold in 2002, more than half had changeable covers." 嗯,沒錯,新的 Nokia 3200 採取變臉戰術,使用者購買時會拿到十張空白的保護貼,可以使用一般的噴墨印表機將所需的圖案轉印到保護貼上。WSJ 內文又透漏,Motorola 也準備好了手機專用的 Swarovski 水晶飾品。對我而言,這個沉溺的藉口實在不夠力,可是對年輕的小妹妹們呢?她們可是新經濟的最佳行動實踐者。君不見,多少點子都是她們想出來的?

這讓我想到 mtlin 曾經轉錄的一篇文章:〈ICQ:一個科技行銷上的嘆息

延伸新聞:手機說變就變 行動流行DIY

Network365.com – Mobile Payment(隨時隨地大失血)

Mobile payment 的發展(今年五月):來自愛爾蘭的 network365 跳過由地緣巨頭 Orange, Telefónica Móviles, T-Mobile 和 Vodafone 主推的 Simpay,直接搶近日本市場,而且被 NTT DoCoMo 欽點為御用的 M-Payment(DoCommerce)。以後可以使用手機來隨時隨地的付費(然後被自動催繳和扣款?)。

John Hatfield 在 Sunday Herald:〈Offline in a world with nowhere to hide

延伸:mzone 日文網頁(from network365)

公民新聞 – JanJan.jp

除了韓國的 ohmynews 之外,JanJan.jp 也是近來新的注意焦點。OJR 上的訪談報導;JanJan 是公民新聞的日本版。受訪者 Yamamura(山村雅康) 說:

Daily life without reading (traditional) newspapers made me discover to what an extent the mass media had manipulated my worldview until then.

延伸閱讀:〈學習土耳其,關機救電視〉、〈媒體家庭學:為何「嬰兒潮」控制的媒體愛談「世代」