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This article presents the efforts of new hacker communities trying to implement open mobile platforms. As it is for digital broadcasting “terminals”, cell phones tend to be closed platforms for which current “incumbents” have the exclusive power to innovate. In this article however, they claim that only open platforms will pave the way to future applications. We’ve seen that model work pretty well for the Internet, haven’t we? Could this also apply to mobile networks? And digital mobile networks such as DVB-H, DMB or MediaFLO?
BTW Surj Patel (the guy interviewed) is also the conference chair of the very promising O’reilly ETEL event next january.
I’m not quite sure about the OSM model but it looks like the most popular blogger/news get paid by the service.
An interesting debate initiated by Tom Coates about streaming vs time-shifted media:
…Because it’s not streaming that’s most affected by a combination of on demand and ‘deliver it to me’ subscribable podcast-like functionality. The main potential victim here is broadcast itself. Those of us who have Tivos or PVR functionality are already used to the idea that we don’t have to sit in front of the television when something’s being broadcast to watch our shows. And as a consequence, I very infrequently do.
Of course, time-shifting works fine as long as there is no need for live broadcasts. However, there will always be a need for live stuff like: sports events, breaking news, interactive-participatory shows, the President’s address to the nation, emergency warnings,…
New plans by Warner to make 100 old TV shows available for download. Two minutes of “non-skipable” advertizing will be presented at the beginning of each episode.
Recently I spent some days at Hilton hotel. I was gladly surprised to discover that the typical clock radio was equipped with an external line-in jack for my iPod. In an open media world, the line-in jack is a de-facto standard. Will we have similar open interfaces for our portable HDTV devices in hotel rooms? And how about a standards-based physical interface for car radios?
A great project example that shows (even with its name) how Internet media could provide a similar (or better) experience than TV.
This is the first post. Thanks for visiting. A lot to read sooooon…