AT&T to offer DSL in more areas | CNET News.com: "The telecommunications giant on Thursday said it would offer digital subscriber line (DSL) service to customers in Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey. The expansion builds on an announcement in July, when AT&T began offering DSL to customers in New York.
In each of these areas, pricing for the DSL service will be $19.95 for the first three months, and then $39.95 every month after. AT&T will offer a plan with faster download speeds for $49.95 a month as well. The charges are in addition to the normal cost of the phone service. All services will be offered through a partnership to resell DSL lines offered by Covad Communications. "
Somehow I think I'll still be an island floating outside the reasonable CO radius...but I can hope (2 years and counting on the Verizon 'call list' when they get DSL near my house)
Friday, September 12, 2003
Big Blue's New Experiments in Real-Time Communications
Big Blue's New Experiments in Real-Time Communications: "One early, yet promising project at the company is known as Socializer. It's a prototype of an open, distributed, peer-to-peer platform with capabilities including chatting, file transfers, application sharing and broadcasting and discovery of services.
Socializer users can create profiles and exchange personal information with others, and in finding others with whom to collaborate, can search and filter by profile information.
Socializer users can create profiles and exchange personal information with others, and in finding others with whom to collaborate, can search and filter by profile information. "
It's nice to hear IBM thinking about new ways to collaborate but I suspect it's going to take more than skunk-work projects to continue the necessary advances...
Socializer users can create profiles and exchange personal information with others, and in finding others with whom to collaborate, can search and filter by profile information.
Socializer users can create profiles and exchange personal information with others, and in finding others with whom to collaborate, can search and filter by profile information. "
It's nice to hear IBM thinking about new ways to collaborate but I suspect it's going to take more than skunk-work projects to continue the necessary advances...
Tivo and the supposed first mover advantage
First Mover Disadvantage: Forbes Online has an article this morning that discusses TiVo and the slower than expected adoption rate of the device given all of the praise:
'That's really remarkable,' says Adi Kishore, a media and entertainment analyst for the Yankee Group in Boston. 'I can't think of any product that has had the satisfaction levels it has had but has been as sluggish in terms of the growth of the market. It's certainly unusual for a product to have this kind of enthusiasm from the community that's using it without being able to tip over and really become a mass-market phenomenon.'
Currently, TiVo, which hit the market more than four years ago, serves fewer than 800,000 subscribers. Only about 1% of America's households employ TiVo or similar digital video-recording products, according to the Consumer Electronic Association. By comparison, market penetration for DVD players has hit 41% and is rising, making it one of the most rapidly embraced products in history.
The article goes on to argue that TiVo suffers from a first mover disadvantage: it's a product that will create a market but only appeal to early adopters who will quickly churn out to the next greatest thing. There is no doubt that TiVo has had to create this market itself and suffers from the same arrows in the back that have taken many pioneers down.
But to me, TiVo suffers from another great entrepreneurial problem -- it's a feature, not a product. I have the bundled DirecTV/TiVo and it works beautifu"
Two intereting points here via VentureBlog: The first is the reality of what it takes to be a feature vs a product; the second is that I was recently told only scouts take arrows in the back - pioneers take them in the chest ;)
'That's really remarkable,' says Adi Kishore, a media and entertainment analyst for the Yankee Group in Boston. 'I can't think of any product that has had the satisfaction levels it has had but has been as sluggish in terms of the growth of the market. It's certainly unusual for a product to have this kind of enthusiasm from the community that's using it without being able to tip over and really become a mass-market phenomenon.'
Currently, TiVo, which hit the market more than four years ago, serves fewer than 800,000 subscribers. Only about 1% of America's households employ TiVo or similar digital video-recording products, according to the Consumer Electronic Association. By comparison, market penetration for DVD players has hit 41% and is rising, making it one of the most rapidly embraced products in history.
The article goes on to argue that TiVo suffers from a first mover disadvantage: it's a product that will create a market but only appeal to early adopters who will quickly churn out to the next greatest thing. There is no doubt that TiVo has had to create this market itself and suffers from the same arrows in the back that have taken many pioneers down.
But to me, TiVo suffers from another great entrepreneurial problem -- it's a feature, not a product. I have the bundled DirecTV/TiVo and it works beautifu"
Two intereting points here via VentureBlog: The first is the reality of what it takes to be a feature vs a product; the second is that I was recently told only scouts take arrows in the back - pioneers take them in the chest ;)
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