Chris Kettle's Blog

So on 7 News they report 4 Million hits brings the myschool website down.

Who talks in hits ever? How could they even record it if the site was down? If they are trying to purport 4 Million people, then thats pretty close to the number of parents in this country I guess, wouldn’t they be at work or not on the Internet…

And these are the people that we’re trusting with the filter…. I just don’t think the govt attracts the right people.. where as Singapore.

Even thought I don’t mind using my laptop for all the purposes the iPad offers – it’ll definitely be a step in the right direction if it doesn’t melt your legs when using it. Current experience of Apple TV, iPhone, MacBook is they get too damn hot after a while.

Where’s the cam! That would have been a simple build in. More useful than the GPS – I’m not going to be sticking this on my dashboard.. or maybe I would.

Would be good for kids to read the map, or the wife to find a hotel to stop off with.. lots of ideas thinking..

http://info.energex.com.au/tracker/asp/lightningtracker.asp

Would be good to have a site where WE (the customers) tell the BUSINESS what we would like for their products.

i.e. a Foxtel / Austar iPhone remote record.

etc..

2 spam comments re: nexus one!

time for an update

Mildly amusing that @PepsiAustralia‘s twitter person doesn’t realise that every photo she takes is uploading to Twitter or is publicly available. Full gallery of – what looks like a stock sheet, and very strange other pictures are here: http://twitpic.com/photos/pepsiaustralia.

Shame nobody reads this blog yet – could be a good cock-up story in there. Maybe she’ll take some crazy random pics.

The funniest bit is that Coca Cola are advertising on the page. Check it.

CK

Nice phone…. but looking at my linkedin list – I wonder how many people will have jobs in 10 years with Google as they buy, strangle or swallow everyone in the path.

Back to the phone… what do we like..

Voice – I don’t know if you were on the SMS screen why you’d bother using voice recognition when most of us can just type it in, more accurate and quicker. Also unless your in a silent room will it really work. Or will it annoy the crap out of people on the train. Voice is really good when your either in a call or in the car – when your hands are pre-occupied ideally with the steering wheel.

Sat Nav – cheaper than buying a new one, always will be more up-to-date – linking friends out of your address book is bloody useful and with other apps, i.e. looking at houses to buy in a suburb or trying to find a petrol station, post-office etc. Its the one app that Android has over the iPhone and hope Google release it – why would they bother.

We shall see. Good on them for making it unlocked and Google Voice is a product I’d love to have.

iPhoto beats Picasa and it seems annoying that these cloud photo galleries are not a bit more open… do users really care. I just want my pictures accesible with privacy, in high quality and as back-ups – not too hard. I know people rely on Facebook – but not really hiq.

CK

Last year I had the chance to visit the Facebook offices in Palo Alto and wow there’s a lot of people there. Lots of people with their facebook drink bottles, facebook fleece coats and facebook ruck sacks.

At 30 I did feel like I was the oldest person there and I did want to ask them politely what each of them actually did?

On tech-crunch, they are now rolling out a user survey what they think of the new version. I think FB needs to harden up and make a decision based on their experts. Make it personalised. It really isn’t that hard.

I quite like the user who suggested:

Didn’t know it was possible. Black screen of death?

Going to apply to be a mentor…

http://www.commercialisationaustralia.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx

Well there wouldn’t be anything more appropriate than knocking out 10 predictions for the decade..

1. Facebook to die sometime soon. The latest Optus ad has a mother checking up on her daughter’s facebook – which makes Facebook 1) not very cool anymore 2) the more and more brands trying to pretend to be cool by muscling in with the brand the more of a turn-off it is. I don’t want to be friends with my phone company, just provide the damn service I pay for. If Facebook floats they are only going to profit on the lack of privacy – Queue a different type of network…

2. Google to become ‘The Company’ and as we explore outer space, of course the space-ship will stop to look for Alien DNA (they could be building a better Search engine).. think about they already have a device called an Android – all we need is Ripley now.. (this will make sense if you have seen Alien.

3. That this blog doesn’t last 12 months..

4. That I don’t get to number 10.

5. That as we will probably all have access to every movie and piece of music (including the Beatles) in the house within a few years. And if downloading is not the answer there will be someone selling a X-Terabyte usb-stick with everything down at the local market. Hence the ‘desire’ to stop people illegally downloading will not fix the problem.

6. Good bye banner-ads. Good bye tv-ads. Hopefully we will all get a bit smarter aligning brands with content and experiences.

7. The National Broadband Network will be a waste of time and effort. My current experience with Telstra Next G wi-fi networks do everything very well in remote areas (apart from download movies)…so what is the point in reinventing the wheel. Surely it’d be quicker and cheaper to just build wi-fi towers and bring the accessibility cost down, which is the real problem.

8. That as everyone moves to mobile. The issues we’ve had about employees accessing inappropriate emails and sites at work will go, as everyone will be doing it privately. So pictures of boobs will never go away. Will probably increase workplace bullying / banter – so time to harden up.

9. We get rid of people being anonymous. This will at least a start to get rid of spammers and fraudsters and people who post hating anonymous comments. Yes, you will have to stand up for what you believe in and your employer will know about it.

10. That the makers of the Segway come up with a hoverboard…

10a.. the world leaders in ten years will have a great time explaining all their drunken photos and escapades as they become public. Hopefully as a society we don’t care so much about the private lives of others.