I’ve been watching most of the day the buzz about Dave Winer’s newest contribution to silly things wealthy geeks can do to waste their money and look cool at the same time and who of course are Mac folks who shelled out $600 bucks for a Mac Mini and have an HDTV.
Yes with all that and Dave’s handy dandy application which is only available for the Mac you too can reduce your entertainment center down to a slide show projector of all your pictures on Flickr or if you are really feeling adventurous the AP news wire. Isn’t that cool?
Needless to say Robert Scoble hisself has jumped on the bandwagon and letting the world - well the tech blogosphere at least - know just how cool it is. Hey Robert - it’s a freakin slide show and just because you have a disposable income that could feed a family in the real world for more than a year doesn’t make this an earth shattering momentous event.
As for being able to hook up a computer to a TV well Duh! I guess because it was Microsoft that came out with it’s Media Center or numerous open source projects for both Windows and Linux doesn’t count for shit now that Dave has decided that his talents in connecting RSS feed to a screensaver is the new road forward. Unlike Louis though I don’t see anything to get all gushy over just because Mac users can now show off all those wonderful family photos on their HDTV. Chances are they will be just as boring as when we all sat in front of the projector screen.
Like Mathew and Rob I don’t get why this is so damn cool.
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Er, I have been doing this for decades (DOS [not Windows, DOS} 4). I used to chuckle at the tech guy who bragged about his 20" monitor, I was using a 42" rear-projection screen. I used it mostly for connecting to the mainframe at work to do maintenance and troubleshooting (I was software/tech support), and BBS (anyone else remember those) - the big screen made it a LOT easier for this near-sighted old man to work.
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http://www.archive.org/details/tucows_293514_Pr...
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I suspect it might interact badly with NoScript on Firefox but NoScript didn't display any warning...
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Not only that I have to laugh at the fact that Scoble has found another useless medium to broadcast crap from in Qik! Geeze.
To me this is not that new in so much as you can ook up any decent LCD tv to a computer via the DVI slot... now you can treat it like a monitor - even show a slideshow! So I just don't get it at this point and time - or is it because Dave Winer came up with it that we are supposed to prick our ears and listen... please the days of the A-lister are done. NEXT!
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Scoble may like Qik now, but I bet it won't last. He has a short attention span. Is Kyte.tv over and done? What about Facebook and Twitter?
I listened because it was Dave Winer, and he has a good track record. But this isn't a revolutionary service in its current incarnation. Forget A-List. I respect the guy because he's accomplished real innovation, as opposed to talked about others who have (pick your A-list and B-List to fill in that void)
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I expect this to be step one. Dave's got a pretty good track record of taking development tools and creating a foundation for something bigger. I personally don't have a Mac Mini (or any Mac) attached to a TV, and this screensaver doesn't yet trump some of those I've found elsewhere, but as was pointed out elsewhere, it's certainly a geekier approach!
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I'll give ya the "gushy" .. might have been a tad over on that :)
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I agree Dave is usually on the ball but, this is just another app for a Mac and not a great one. That is how much buzz it deserves, not the total flip everyone has done on it.
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I've been using my computer with a TV connected to it since 1997, using it for slideshows among other things, so I don't really see the "innovation" behind this whole issue :D
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