QR code game idea for snack food makers

Doritos, and most other snack food makers deliver these small cardboard or plastic chips illustrated with nice colors and symbols, kids collect these and play all sorts of games with them (pokemon?).

They should take these to the next level. Have them marked by special QR codes that symbolyze diiferent qualities desired by would be super-heroes. these super heroes will be characters representing the kids themselves using a facebook app.

Every time a kid finds a new QR code inside a doritos bag, he will rush to take a picture of it with his frito-lay iPhone app and find out what new ability his super-hero character can have. The kids will also have fight matches between the characters of their friends in their facebook apps, showing the results on their walls.

facebook should cancel that age 13 restriction first...

the cashless society

I've been trying to be cashless for a few years now, at one point i even managed to put my cards inside my phone, under my battery cover. when having too little cards was impossible i bought a silicone cover for my phone and put the cards there. You can have an "sos" bill under your phone's battery cover too.

The reason i'm so hyped about the cashless society is because of the social implications. If cash is cancelled by law, crime will reduce significantly, stolen stuff will be alot harder to sell, including illegal stuff like drugs.

The technical solution imo is an rfid chip inside the phone, it does not need battery and visa is already working on making an rfid card to be put inside a micro-sd card.

The possibility of an uncontrollable internet

The internet as we know it today is at great risk.

One day, the internet might be censored, controlled and heavy regulated and monetized.
This will ruin its sense of democratization.

We need to start thinking of a new kind of internet, an internet that is uncontrollable, an internet that is distributed and at the hands of the users.

My idea is to integrate some existing technologies like p2p, bittorrent and web browsers and to create some new ones to accomplish the goal of the distributed and uncontrolled internet.

We might even be able to create an internet that can move information from device to device using wifi and bluetooth and be network independent, an internet that will be compiled solely of end users and devices. When I will want to access some content, I will ask for it using my device, the request can roam from my device the others' without even using the cell network or any kind of carrier. It will just jump from one device to the next until it finds what I looked for.

Imagine that all content on the web will be accessible via a p2p network, exactly the way we can download music files today, we can also download html files and any other kind of content.

The internet can become a p2p network, and then it will really be free, and open.

Research areas

Censorship and control today
What are censorships today.


Web browsers
Many web rendering engines are available, including geko and webkit, they will have to be the face of the uncontrollable internet, but get their content through some of the new tools like p2p networks.

P2P networks
These networks have the potential of making internet content distributed between personal clients like smartphones and PCs. Visualization: http://mg8.org/processing/bt.html

Wireless client to client Mesh networks
To make the new internet operation and regulation free there is a need to allow user devices like smartphones to interact with each other without any need of serevers that can be controlled by businesses and goverments.

Open source licenses
Which licenses are avilable to make this idea ligeal?

a more complete essay: An uncontrollable internet

About sourcing software

• old thinking = do what you do best, outsource the rest
• new thinking = do what you do best, open source the rest

Business Functions list

1. Human Resources
2. Sales
3. Marketing 
4. Research and Development 
5. Production
6. Operations 
7. Customer Service 
8. Finance
9. Account management
10. Administration
11. IT
12. Management
13. Innovation
14. Business intelligence
15. Benchmarking
16. Logistics
17. Distribution

proposed business software provider strategy

Our strategy should be one line, like : "maintain world's business data" or "map the world's business processes".

and then break it down to a few sub goals, like:

1. provide easy way to map a business processes for any organization with minimum cost
2. provide access to thousands of business processes
3. allow businesses to share their business processes
4. use only non-proprietary software to diminish dependency
5. don't plan to far ahead

Then break it down to practical steps like:

1. Create an easy platform for managing business processes
2. Create businesses processes together with partners
3. Create integrations to the cloud for the most common software solutions (especially ours)
4. Create mobile versions of all of our software
5. Use web standards like html5
6. Provide API's to all of our customer's information

lightest laptops table: grams per inch

a table of the lightest laptops available, calculated by grams per screen size (in inches).

requirements:

1. can run windows 7
2. has wifi
3. manufactured by a known, trusted company
4. available
5. screen resolution of at list 1024X768 pixels

laptop	weight (grams)	screen size (inch)	grams/inch
apple macbook air	1360	13.3	102.26
sony vaio p	600	8	75
lenovo x301	1330	13.3	100
lenovo x200s	1100	12.1	90.91
sony vaio x	680	11.1	61.26

sony vaio x has the best grams/inch ratio.

note: here in Israel, we use inches only for screen sizes of electronics. and because i like using grams, conversions are not absolutely accurate. but as you can see from the differences, they are enough.

Enablers, designers and manufacturers

Some companies are enablers, some design and some just manufacture. which one would you like to be?

examples:
Enabler: IBM
Designer: Apple
Manufacturer: Asus

location based thinking prevents innovation

I just got an email:

Subject: Development environment
Hi Oded,
I want to create a page on Wiki about “How to improve environment performance” – do you have any recommendation where to create it?

You see... location based thinking prevented this person from creating a knowledge item, he wouldn't create the page before he knew where to put it.

In "analog" life we don't operate that way, first we take a page, jot down some things, and only then we have to decide where to put it, if at all... it can also just be put on a pile on the desk.

So, this was my answer:

Hi,
The thing about the wiki is that the location doesn’t matter, just create the page on the main page and we will link to it later when we find a logical place…

This person's wiki has an incredible "bug/feature" in it, which denotes that every page should have a "parent" page.

How many knowledge items got scrapped because their proponents didn't know "where" to put them?

The real solution is to have a wiki that doesn't have that incredible bug. But if you must use such software, just create a "new pages pool" which is to contain any page which doesn't have a destination (which is what i did).

Is firefox's “awesome bar" google's biggest threat?

Is firefox's “awesome bar" google's biggest threat? i'm so used to it, and loving it, that i'm guesstimating it reduced my searches by 10%-20%.
I bet it's one of the reasons why google is trying to push chrome so hard.
Microsoft should try to develop and improve on an “awesome bar" for internet explorer, it will probably dent google search a lot more than bing.

Quick platforms

It's all about quick platforms in this day and age.
The first company that creates a platform wins.
So make it early and usable.
Examples:

• google search
• microsoft windows (first widely available)
• iphone app store
• google book project

web 3.0, the semantic web is here

Google adds microformat:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-adds-microformat-parsin.html

Web integration in mobile is key

In the coming months, the key for making a successful mobile handset will be in how deeply integrated is it's software with online services.

Right now, the promising leaders are:

• http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre
• http://www.inqmobile.com

Wiki elevator pitch

Think of a wiki as an infinitely extensible whiteboard that many people can edit and share with the ability to undo changes.
How many times have you stumbled upon a term or an acronym which you had no idea what it meant?
Our company can benefit greatly from having a global wiki. Think of a central space where anyone can post his knowledge and new things that he learnt, a space where anyone can read and learn useful information.
Have you added any articles yet?

macworld and apple stocks

Can you read the numbers?

macworld? - Date - Close - Volume

days before and after - January 24, 2008 - 135.6 - 68069000
days before and after - January 23, 2008 - 139.07 - 17008800
days before and after - January 22, 2008 - 155.64 - 69530400
2008 macworld - January 18, 2008 - 161.36 - 57983700
2008 macworld - January 17, 2008 - 160.89 - 61237600
2008 macworld - January 16, 2008 - 159.64 - 77804500
2008 macworld - January 15, 2008 - 169.04 - 81723300
2008 macworld - January 14, 2008 - 178.78 - 36688700
days before and after - January 11, 2008 - 172.69 - 43219400
days before and after - January 10, 2008 - 178.02 - 52015700
days before and after - January 9, 2008 - 179.4 - 63762300

days before and after - January 18, 2007 - 89.07 - 79688000
days before and after - January 17, 2007 - 94.95 - 44892100
days before and after - January 16, 2007 - 97.1 - 42947000
2007 macworld - January 12, 2007 - 94.62 - 45876200
2007 macworld - January 11, 2007 - 95.8 - 50330300
2007 macworld - January 10, 2007 - 97 - 98946900
2007 macworld - January 9, 2007 - 92.57 - 18471000
2007 macworld - January 8, 2007 - 85.47 - 28089100
days before and after - January 5, 2007 - 85.05 - 29335400
days before and after - January 4, 2007 - 85.66 - 30032100
days before and after - January 3, 2007 - 83.8 - 43223900

days before and after - January 19, 2006 - 79.04 - 60161500
days before and after - January 18, 2006 - 82.49 - 32437300
days before and after - January 17, 2006 - 84.71 - 28904800
2006 macworld - January 13, 2006 - 85.59 - 27444200
2006 macworld - January 12, 2006 - 84.29 - 45465000
2006 macworld - January 11, 2006 - 83.9 - 52882100
2006 macworld - January 10, 2006 - 80.86 - 80925900
2006 macworld - January 9, 2006 - 76.05 - 23939300
days before and after - January 6, 2006 - 76.3 - 25060700
days before and after - January 5, 2006 - 74.38 - 15808700
days before and after - January 4, 2006 - 74.97 - 21956400

days before and after - January 20, 2005 - 35.23 - 32271400
days before and after - January 19, 2005 - 34.94 - 26515200
days before and after - January 18, 2005 - 35.32 - 35759200
2005 macworld - January 14, 2005 - 35.1 - 62749400
2005 macworld - January 13, 2005 - 34.9 - 12163000
2005 macworld - January 12, 2005 - 32.73 - 56857000
2005 macworld - January 11, 2005 - 32.28 - 92592600
2005 macworld - January 10, 2005 - 34.48 - 61209600
days before and after - January 7, 2005 - 34.62 - 79150800
days before and after - January 6, 2005 - 32.28 - 25002000
days before and after January 5, 2005 32.25 24158800