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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
How To Run Old Games On Windows 7?
In this Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire -- Gov Maharaj walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems including:
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Monday, May 23, 2011
CHART OF THE DAY: "Old People Suck At Startups"
Who is going to be a successful entrepreneur?
Prolific early stage investor Ron Conway's firm SV Angel gathered responses from 300 founders to try to answer that question. It's not an exact science, but it seems young co-founders doing their second startup tend to produce better results than older sole founders on their first company.
Or as Michael Arrington put it today, "Old people suck at startups."
Why is it that younger people have a tendency to succeed? Conway speculated that older founders are more cautious and will take earlier, cheaper exits for security, whereas a younger founder will let their company brew for a while, gaining value.
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CHART OF THE DAY: "Old People Suck At Startups"
Sunday, May 15, 2011
On The Internet, The Past Isn't That Old
People say things live on the internet forever. With Twitter limiting access to old tweets and Google apparently becoming increasingly forgetful as it ages, that may not quite be the case.
Twitter Tweets Expiration
The foundation story of Twitter claims that the first tweet was made by Jack Dorsey and was “Just setting up my twttr.” But what was his second tweet? Or his third one? What was his first @ message? Today, it’s impossible to answer any of those questions because neither the Twitter search engine nor scrolling through the complete list of tweets from someone will provide you with all the results.
The Twitter search engine apparently expires content after a few days. Tweets become inaccessible after 3200 tweets or roughly three and a half days if you are tweeting at the top rate allowed on the service (users of Twitter are allowed a maximum of 1,000 tweets, which may explain why there have been so few uses of Twitter as a fully interactive type of service).
With Twitter now claiming an important role in events like the 2009 Iranian uprising or the 2011 events in the rest of the middle east, it seems that expiring tweets is a bad idea as it deletes an important historical record. At the current time, Facebook claims that developers can access “all of a user’s status” which might imply that their retention policy is stronger that Twitter’s.
Fun with Google Searches
But social media may be the exception and not the rule so I decided to start looking at web pages, which have been around for almost two decades now. Searching the internet of the past is an interesting thing. For example, let’s look at the tech industry:
The Netscape IPO seen as the first big internet IPO, happened on August 10, 1995. Doing a search the week before and after returns 7 results.
Microsoft’s introduction of Internet Explorer was in August 1995, with a second big announcement in December of that year. A search for “Microsoft introduces internet explorer” in 1995 returns 40 results.
Some may claim that I am being unfair, picking events that happened before Google’s creation. So I decided to look at events after 1999, at a time that would be contemporary with Google’s existence.
For example, the presidential election of 2000 was one of the hottest political contests in American history. It pitted Al Gore (421 Google results between January 1, 2000 and January 1, 2001) against George Bush (418 results for the same time period) and left the country wondering who was the winner for several days. There wasn’t a 24 hour news channel or newspaper in the country that did not cover the events extensively. And yet, we are left with less than a thousand pages from the period.
Some of those pages in the Google index may not even be from that time period. For example, the last page in my search for “George Bush” in the time range of January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2001 returned a site called celebritytweet.com. Considering that twitter wouldn’t exist for a few more years, I have doubt that the site existed in 2000.
If politics may be too narrow a topic, maybe something like the attacks on the World Trade Center might have more impact. So doing a search for pages relating to the week it happened (I did a search with a date range between September 10, 2001 and September 18, 2001) would probably returns TONS of pages. The result, according to Google is 461 pages.
Let me repeat that figure: 461 pages of historical record for what is widely agreed as one of the most important historical events in our lifetime.
For a quick comparison, I decided to take a somewhat less important event from the past week. Sure, I could have gone for the raid on Bin Laden but instead I decided to go for something a little more inconsequential: Lady Gaga’s deal with Zynga. A search limited to the last week has returned 477 results.
So if Google is the arbitrer of what’s important and the repository of most of our collective memory, a visitor from another planet looking at it could easily conclude that Lady Gaga cutting a deal with Zynga was more important that the attacks of 9/11. I’m not one to pass judgment on the cultural importance of Lady Gaga but something tells me that either the Google algorithm is wrong here or the Internet tends to be a very forgetful place.
Conclusion
As more an more media becomes digital, the concept of media retention is becoming increasingly important. It should become a growing area of concern for most historian and archivists to see that large portion of the late 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century may be leaving behind a smaller footprint of data than previous era.
Efforts like the Google Book Search project are making great strike making things like physical books more accessible by creating digital reproductions of that content but they should also start considering making more recent, already digitized data archived in some fashion. Otherwise, the lack of a past may make us more susceptible to creating a less perfect future.
Tristan Louis is the founder and CEO of Keepskor and writes the influential tnl.net weblog, where this was initially posted under the title Forever is a long time.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Microsoft: Please Bring Back The Old Windows Phone Ads (MSFT)
Microsoft's first crop of ads for Windows Phone puzzled some folks, but they put forth a simple idea -- using Windows Phone means you don't have to spend so much time staring at your phone -- in a funny way.
Dropping your phone in a urinal? Forgetting to open your parachute because you're taking pictures on your phone? That's funny. Or at least memorable.
But they didn't help sales, and now Microsoft has reverted to form. The new ads outline features of the phone.
The tagline: "the only phone with Office, Xbox Live, and thousands of apps."
That's true, but Office? That's a real eye-glazer for most consumers. It's certainly not going to inspire the kind of emotional response that a good iPhone ad does.
The ads actually debuted last month, but they're showing up a lot during the March Madness NCAA basketball tournament.
Here's the 30-second ad that showed up during the UConn-Cincy game last night. Judge for yourself.
And here's a one minute ad that includes a telling quote from a user: "corrected a power point in my bed...pretty awesome."
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Microsoft: Please Bring Back The Old Windows Phone Ads (MSFT)
Friday, February 25, 2011
Comment on How-To: Give Your Old iPhone New Life With Prepaid Data and Minutes by Derek
Do you how to use iPhone as a prepaid phone for net 10?
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Comment on You Can’t Play a New Media Game By Old Media Rules by Mathew Ingram
Not everyone who reads this is a journalist, so they likely wouldn't know about the hot news ruling. And whether it is more or less relevant, it is (and was) wrong. Thanks for the comment.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
It's Official: TV News Is For Old People
According to a new Pew study, the Internet surpassed TV as the number one news source for 18-to-29 year olds in the U.S. last year.
The trend isn't new--the Internet has been gradually replacing other sources of news for the last decade, with a particularly sharp rise in 2007. But 2010 is the first time that the Internet surpassed all other sources of news for young users. The trend will only accelerate as those younger users age and move into other demographic groups.
The Internet is also closing in on newspapers as the number-two news source among 50-to-64 year olds, and finally surpassed radio in the over-64 demographic.
Now, it's just a matter of time before advertising spending catches up with the audience.
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- Larry Kramer: This Is Why Fox News Continues To Roll
It's Official: TV News Is For Old People
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