In 10 years the TV world will completely change

Posted on 11 ottobre 2006 by Marco

A post by the Maestrina on the future of television. According to her, in 10 years the television world (and market) will completely change.

In next 2-3 years, the networks will put shows’ trailer on social network, then will sell shows on their websites. Before 2010 they will distribute shows for free, with advertising. But removing adv from a file is easy, so they will produce context-branded shows.

After 2010 the whole movies+shows online market is organized through folksnomies and freely available for download. Payment is done thanks to a internet access tax (10$ per year). In 2012 the traditional formats of movie, shows, series and so on is subverted by popular production.

In 2015 the Next Big Thing will change everything again.

Someone seems not to agree: the DRM systems may be used to prevent access to contents for citizen of a certain country. If you are Italian and you’d like to buy and watch a movie in a US hotel, you can’t, because your credit card refers to an italian account and the licence of the product you’re buying does not allow you to watch the movie.

Moved

Posted on 9 ottobre 2006 by Marco

I recently move to a new flat. Three weeks before I announced it to Sunrise (and Swisscom). My telephone line with ADSL was moved with me, at the right day, with no problems. Thanks.

Sunrise ADSL problems

Posted on 3 ottobre 2006 by Marco

On Saturday, 29. September, lot of problems in the whole Switzerland for Sunrise ADSL customers. I experienced the problems.

Today, I don’t find anymore the news of the problem on the assistance webpage. There is another news: same problem but date changed. I cannot confirm this since I did not use my adsl.

ADSL problems

Posted on 15 settembre 2006 by Marco

Still problems with ADSL, as explained in previous post.

I investigate deeply and found that my downstream SNR margin (you find it in your router program) drops when the internet connection led switch off, from about 19 to less than 1 (when the adsl led switch off, it drops under 0). Sunrise (very kind people) says it can be the modem/router not on the main telephone plug (for two years it works on that plug) or the modem that is broken (connection falls, but then works for 10 hours). I suspect that someone is working on the line, but they told me that they do not know. I imagine that communication between Sunrise and Swisscom is not easy.

Anyway, it does reconnect. The problem with Messenger could be solved using these tips. I’ll use numbers 8, then 1, then 9. Will see if it’ll works.

Spammed again, via fax

Posted on 14 settembre 2006 by Marco

Again a spam fax, from the same company that spammed me two months ago: Somotrading AG, whose website is www.rapido.ch.

Here is the fax:

Darwin is spamming?

Posted on 13 settembre 2006 by Marco

I received three times, at two different email addresses, spam that seems to come from Darwin Airlines. Gmail recognized it.

Swisscom blog?

Posted on 29 agosto 2006 by Marco

It seems that Swisscom is ready to start a blog on telecommunication and environment (“Telekommunikation und Umwelt”). Fredy and Matthias talk about it.

The Tages Anzeiger has the news, reported from the Berner Zeitung. The article in Tagi presents the portal corporate-blog.ch (yes, they use the word “portal”!), realized as Diplomarbeit by two students of the IKM – Institut fÃ¼r Kommunikation und Marketing of the Hochschule fÃ¼r Wirtschaft Luzern (HSW). The portal is interesting and has a lot of links. It is presented as “your source for business blogging”, but the main language is German.

By the way, the whole swiss blogosphere is mainly in German. I’d like more blogs in English, as lingua franca for swiss people. Thank you.

Back to the Swisscom blog. I’ll read it, as soon as the address is public. I’m very curious to know in which language(s) it will be.

Green technology

Posted on 27 agosto 2006 by Marco

I’m proud to know that the two technologies I use most of the time are quite green. Dell and Nokia appears as the best companies in respecting our Earth.

Slashdot a little late, or not

Posted on 27 agosto 2006 by Marco

I was quite surprised reading on slashdot today that Google launches Google Trends. And I was not the only one. Actually, someone in the comments points out that Slashdot already talked about Google Trends, in May, when it was actually launched.

Who killed my ADSL?

Posted on 10 agosto 2006 by Marco

It seems that last auto-update of Windows XP killed my ADSL connection. This happened yesterday, when one pc was updated, and today, when other PC was updated.

The worst thing is that MSN Messenger, when wrongly disconnected, won’t reconnect again.

Survey on eLearning in companies

Posted on 9 agosto 2006 by Marco

If the company where you work uses eLearning, please consider filling this survey, or forward it to someone who may fill it. The survey will help my collegue Chiara in her PhD thesis. From the abstract: “In this research we would like to understand the importance of the context surrounding eLearning experiences”.

You may find a more detailed presentation and an italian presentation.

Bad websites

Posted on 7 agosto 2006 by Marco

I’m a judge for the Interactive Key Award 2006 (IKA 2006). The same in 2004 and 2005 editions. I’d like to thank the organizators for this opportunity and for the job they do.

I receive a list of websites and other online advertising stuff (banner, online games,…) and I assign a vote (1 to 10) taking into account some criteria.

I’m surprised for the quality of websites: terrible. I’m sure organizators of IKA 2006 try to find best websites of italian companies, but the panorama is really sad. Makers of these websites know how to use the technology. In some cases, they are good in general communication. In other cases, they seems to know something about online communities (but some concepts related to online communities exists in marketing theories before the net). In most cases, they did not understand the web. They can try hard, be good in Flash, XML, graphics and creativity, but, if they do not start from the beginning, they won’t do anything good.

The future of media in a map

Posted on 7 agosto 2006 by Marco

Admaiora: Future of media map Mauro write on a map for the future of media. It was designed by australian Future Exploration Network and it is a good summarization of what it’s happening and is going to happen.Â Have a look at the complete report.

Swiss thieves

Posted on 7 agosto 2006 by Marco

Panorama (10 August 2006) publishes a little article where it is stated that swiss people “stole” italian buildings. It seems that Italy built some village, schools and hospitals in Sri Lanka, after the tsunami in 2004. According to the italian magazine, in the village of Jaya Sayaurupura, swiss people of GUS (maybe DSC?) and journalists put shields “made in Switzerland” on italian buildings, but actually they gave “only” 1000 euros per family.

EuroNews and the Pardo

Posted on 7 agosto 2006 by Marco

EuroNews is showing (lot of times!) a story on Festival Grandeur Nature, a movie festival in France. Nice, but why they did not do any story on the Pardo, the famous movie festival in Locarno? Please note that as pre-festival, in Piazza Grande the movie showed the day before festival opening was An inconvenient Truth, a movie on climate problems with Al Gore.
I gave a look at EuroNews website (by the way, it could be really better; and the Pardo website could be better too) and I found this feedback page. If you search for Locarno, you’ll see a message complaining that last year there was no story on Locarno (actually, searching on Google you found some evidence but it’s not possible to find it on EuroNews website).