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| Name: | Roland Tanglao's Weblog - Blogs, RSS, wikis, social software, flickr, mobile phones,... Roland's pontifications from Vancouver, Canada |
| Description: | Fun with mobile, blogs, podcasting, videoblogging, RSS, wikis, social software, etc. from Roland Tanglao who's been blogging since 1999 and has over 30,000 photos on flickr, is one of the founders of Bryght, a Web 2.0 startup, and is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Contact me: +1 604 729 7924 roland AT rolandtanglao.com Skype/iChat/AIM: rtanglao |
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25 most recent entries:
Q&A Knight Foundation's News Challenge Last Night Oct 6, 2008 w/Susan Mernit (Oct 08 2008 10:06 GMT)
Here's the Knight News Challenge Question and Answer with Susan Mernit portion of the video (i missed the last few questions because I ran out of disk space, this video was 800MB!). I think it answers a lot of the common questions and shows how Susan is an engaging, articulate and savvy person.
I no longer customize my S60 devices or my Mac except in cosmetic ways (Oct 08 2008 09:53 GMT)
Had the pleasure of meeting James at Nokia Open Lab 08 and it's interesting (Agile Messenger!?! IM on my phone, no thanks, I'd personally rather use Twitter and Jaiku) to see his (mobile) desert island desktop for his S60 devices. I personally no longer customize the home screen of my S60 devices just like I no longer customize my Mac that much (or I customize it in cosmetic ways like change the desktop, I don't do that on S60 for fear of using precious memory something which we will look back on in 5 years and laugh that we worried about memory!). I find S60 too unstable (I blame ShoZu and S60 memory management;
Knight Foundation's News Challenge Last Night Oct 6, 2008 w/Susan Mernit (Oct 07 2008 21:32 GMT)
Read the whole thing from Richard to explore some possible Vancouver applications to the Knight News Challenge. And if you couldn't make last night's meetup last night, after the jump I have embedded a cameraphone video recording of Susan's Knight News Challenge presentation below. Susan's a really great speaker (so my video doesn't do her justice) and really articulated the program well and made me want to apply or at least jot some ideas on the Knight Vancouver wiki page. QUOTE [From Just a Gwai Lo | Knight Foundation's News Challenge: What Project Would You Like to See About Vancouver?
Knight Foundation's NewsChallenge event at Raincity tomorrow night! (Oct 06 2008 05:49 GMT)
Speaking of "Newspaper 2.0" and "Media 2.
Newspaper 2.0 - embracing the the socialness of "readers" (Oct 05 2008 22:10 GMT)
This is very interesting, now if it would tie into the New York Times iPhone app in a 2 way style, that would be great. Globe and Mail: please do something like this (or at least show that you are thinking about things like this! QUOTE [From AVC:The Power of Profiles] Talk about the feedization of the web user interface, we've got one now running at the New York Times.
The Future of Mobility is Linux (and iPhone) RussellBeattie.com from September 2005 (Oct 02 2008 23:13 GMT)
Change 2008 to say 2009 or 10 and change Linux to Android (which is on top of Linux) and Russell was basically correct. Go Russ go! Looking forward to more mobile predictions now that you have joined Nokia (and I love how you continue to be honest!) QUOTE [From The Future of Mobility is Linux - RussellBeattie.com] There could be some spoilers out there.
Blogging Has Gone Nuts because people have tried to game it and make money thru SEO rather than passion (Oct 02 2008 23:01 GMT)
My two cents: Blogging Has Gone Nuts because people have tried to game it and make money through SEO rather than passion and knowledge! QUOTE [From Blogging Has Gone Nuts: Nokia S60 News and Reviews] There is a reason that I've been missing for awhile. Blogging has gone nuts.
It's all about the usability, not the features - Nokia unveils S60 5th Edition and DRMed Comes with Music (Oct 02 2008 21:17 GMT)
S60 5th edition and touch *sounds* good but if it's not in an easier to use form than the current S60, it's useless. And I am sorry but DRM'ed Windows only music doesn't work for me (I don't buy DRMed music from anybody including Apple)! Anyways Apple badly needs competition in the usability department so my fingers are crossed that this represents some sort of competitive threat to them. Go Nokia go! Viva la compétition!
Nokia Open Lab 2008 - Video Wrapup (Oct 01 2008 06:18 GMT)
My video reflections on Nokia Open Lab 2008 (wiki) Show Notes (selected) It's been 3 weeks since Nokia Open Lab 2008 (wiki) in Helsinki and my mind is still reeling! If you don't want to watch my video (apologies for the audio quality) above, check out the show notes (which summarize maybe half of the video!): Fantastic people, fantastic event, in particular the women I had a chance to really speak with were great: Micki, Jen and Anne - glad I had a chance to have in-depth conversations with you all.
#5 on Now Public's Most Public List for Vancouver - Let's Rock it! (Sep 27 2008 03:24 GMT)
Chuff'ed to be on the #5 on the Now Public Vancouver list with Rebecca, Tris and whole bunch of fine folks including the blog father Darren, and Kris and Boris. Let's rock it as Tris said! More fun, more media, more insight, more, more, more! See you at BarCamp Vancouver tomorrow! QUOTE from Tris - Most of Vancouver?
AirMe no longer works with GPS after 2.01 firmware upgrade (Aug 16 2008 05:34 GMT)
After the 2.01 firmware upgrade, AirMe never locks on with the GPS and finds my location even if I am outside in locations where it used to work with the old firmware. Yay for bugs (Yes my GPS is enabled). Do I have to do some sort of funky GPS reset dance to make it work again?
Bug Labs Bug Bundle Shipment delayed until September, switch to Poky, more Funding (Aug 16 2008 05:20 GMT)
My Bug Bundle has been delayed until September. Bug is switching to Poky Linux and they closed a 3rd round of funding. I am still very enthusiastic about The Bug but it's hard to be an enthusiast when you are itching to experiment and shipment is delayed by 3 months. And as I have said before I don't really like simulators. Oh well, perhaps I'll activate one of my dormant iPhone application ideas!
FutureShop redux - how about an "All Genius" Staff? (Aug 16 2008 04:49 GMT)
Well I went to FutureShop expecting more of the same old same old and I wasn't disappointed :-). Cleaner lines and better organized stuff but really not much different. Oh well. Here's what I want:
Trying Out MarsEdit 2.2 - still doesn't have category/tag search/auto-complete (Aug 15 2008 22:55 GMT)
Not so great when you have over 300 tags! Oh well time to go back to Ecto which is not very pretty but does tag search and auto-complete
FutureShop and other Canadian Retailers - Why don't you sell the fabulous Eye-Fi SD card? (Aug 06 2008 16:02 GMT)
UPDATE: Vincent Janelle says that it could be that the Eye-Fi card is not approved by the CRTC. Thanks Vince! I am going on Darren's client Future Shop's blogger opening tonight and I know it's off topic but I have a question for Future Shop buyers: Why don't you sell the cool gadgets?
iPhone 3G arrives - google reader faster, browser crashes, camera s*cks, apps are great but limited by Apple's SDK and p*ranoia (Jul 24 2008 05:56 GMT)
Got the 16GB iPhone yesterday. Stream of consciousness notes so far: Just like the original iPhone, ithe iPhone 3G still camera s*cks and not having video also s*cks! A slow, 2 megapixel camera doesn't cut it in 2008!
Ordered my 16GB iPhone 3G today from Fido, will receive it in August (Jul 16 2008 04:58 GMT)
Like Richard, I just added the $30/month 3G data plan to my existing Fido plan. So it should be cheaper (and faster) than the $50/month I pay for my current grandfathered unlimited EDGE data plan. If the SIM isn't locked, I am thinking about buying an unlocked N95 8G NAM because the camera on the iPhone s*cks (but the 3G lifestyle (it's great!
Streaming Video Vancouver June 2008 Critical Mass (Jul 07 2008 10:02 GMT)
I rode in the June 2008 Vancouver Critical Mass bike ride (check out my Mobile Muse Channel with pictures, videos and text as well as my partial Nokia Sports Tracker map of the route as well as flickr pictures which I can't get into the Mobile Muse Channel since there's no RSS feed) and streamed video live using Qik from my Nokia N95, like I did for the Vancouver Car Free Festival. Only this time I didn't use WiMax just Edge Some observations and comments:
iPhone Pricing in Canada - Rogers' American PR firm, MS&L Digital, sends bloggers identical unhelpful emails - import iPhone? (Jul 07 2008 01:31 GMT)
There are far more important issues to deal with than the Rogers iPhone rates (e.g. the ridiculousness of Bill C-61, global warming, etc) but I was forced to comment after I received the exact same email from MS&L Digital (Rogers' American PR firm) that Tris Hussey received:
N78 Review - If you are a multimedia creator get an N95, else get iPhone (Jun 27 2008 02:05 GMT)
IF you are a multimedia creator and a north american THEN get an N95 8GB NAM or N95-3 NAM IF you are a multimedia creator and a european or asian (except japan of course) THEN get an N95 8GB or the original N95, the N95-1 ELSE get an iPhone 3G when it comes out That's my capsule review of the N78 :-) What can I say? I am spoiled by the iPhone's ease of use and wonderful application environment and the N95'
Rogers iPhone pricing plans revealed: 3years $3440 but appears to be no explicit bandwidth cap and no 3rd party app ban (Jun 19 2008 01:03 GMT)
So the questions start: Is there a bandwidth cap? Are 3rd party applications like ShoZu and Qik (if ShoZu and Qik don't port to the iPhone others will) allowed? IF ShoZu-like and Qik-like applications appear on the iPhone 3G and they work well and Rogers allows them with a reasonable bandwidth cap (reasonable to my multi-media creation needs is 2GB YMMV :
Car Free Vancouver Day 2008 Mobile Streaming Video Post Mortem Part 1 (Jun 16 2008 02:28 GMT)
Had a blast bicycling and checking out Car Free Vancouver 2008 from Commercial Drive to the West End to Kitsilano and back to Commercial Drive (we skipped Main Street since it didn't start until 4p.m.) Here's some of the media we created:
BareBonesCafe - Fun Business Ideas Part 1 (Jun 15 2008 05:35 GMT)
My brain has many, many "fun" ideas some of which could potentially be a money making business, some of which could not. I think BareBonesCafe ("BBC"
Bicycling With Amy Walker to all Car Free Vancouver 2008 Venues on June 15, 2008 and streaming video from my bike (Jun 14 2008 03:40 GMT)
Wearing my Mobile Muse 3 technical evangelist and Fearless volunteer hats, I'll be riding my bicycle with Amy Walker, publisher of the fabulous Momentum magazine about all things bicycling, as part of Car Free Vancouver 2008 starting from the Fearless Mobile Booth on Commercial Drive at 12 noon Sunday June 15, 2008. We'll ride to all the other Car Free Vancouver venues (Main Street, the West End and Kitsilano) and stream video live from my bike to the internet. Check us out at: Fearless's Mobile site (where we hope, tech willing, to display a stream from my bike and from a car in a sort of "car versus bike" video mashup) My Qik Car Free Vancouver archives which currently has our dry run videos and after the event will have the archive of my live stream My Nokia Sports Tracker site which shows our Car Free Vancouver dry runs (dry run June 8, dry run June 11 stream 2) on a nice zoomable Google Map How you can help: Come on down and participate!
Fido (and Rogers) raise SMS rates to the USA by 66% from 15 cents to 25 cents (Jun 14 2008 02:31 GMT)
The ongoing Fido (and Rogers) r*poff continues. The math: 0.10/0.15 = 66.
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