With all the ugly legal tussles going on in the phone world, it’s a safe bet that HP is pleased to be picking up a giant portfolio of mobile patents along with Palm, whose acquisition it announced this week. Digging through the riches at Google Patents, I found a lot of Palm patents that didn’t result in PalmPilots–at least not in any obvious way. I’ve assembled some for your viewing pleasure–from the super-ambitious to the merely strange. Wonder if HPalm will make use of any of them?
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Coming Next Week: Technologizer's SpringThing
Every once in awhile, we at Technologizer like to throw a party. We held one last May and another in November, both of which were packed with interesting folks talking tech. Party number three is coming up next week–we’re calling it SpringThing, and it’ll be on Tuesday, May 4th from 6pm-9pm in San Francisco. (The exact location: 12 Gallagher Lane, a cool gallery in the SOMA neighborhood.) SpringThing is sponsored by Seagate.
If it’s anything like our first two bashes, it’ll “sell out” quickly–but we have some tickets set aside for Technologizer readers. If you’re in the Bay Area, you can RSVP here. And if you tweet about it, please use our official hashtag–#springthing.
Hope to see some of you there!
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Got Any Questions for John Battelle?
John Battelle is an interesting guy: the author of The Search, an excellent book on Google and its predecessors and rivals; the proprietor of the indispensable Searchblog, one of the sites that inspired me to blog; the coproducer and cohost of the Web 2.0 Summit and Web 2.0 Expo conferences; the founder of the old original Industry Standard and one of the first editors at Wired before that; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of Federated Media, the company that sells advertising and other marketing programs for scads of blogs, one of which is–full disclosure!–Technologizer.
He’s also being interviewed on Thursday, April 29th at 4pm ET in a live Webcast. The topic: “New Marketing in the New Normal.”
As with earlier Webcasts in this series, I’ve been invited to watch and tweet my thoughts as I do. You can do the same if you like–the Webcast interface has a built-in Twitter interface. And if you have any questions for John right now, you can leave them here as comments (or tweet them, using the hashtag #HPIO). We’ll round them up for the event.
(Further full disclosure: The Webcast is sponsored by HP and hosted at its site–hence the @HPIO hashtag. Photo of John Battelle by me, taken at last week’s Chirp conference.)
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Coming on Monday: Live Coverage of Microsoft’s “It’s Time to Share” Event
On Monday morning at 10am PT, Microsoft will be holding a press event in San Francisco. It isn’t saying what the news will involve. But the tagline is “It’s Time to Share,” and the invitations were festooned with photos of young people socializing. And multiple reliable sources say that the company will announce new phones–successors to the Sidekicks it acquired when it bought Danger–that run a version of Windows Mobile but are distinct from the Windows Phone 7 models that will come out later this year.
Whatever happens, we’ll be there–and will bring it to you live at Technologizer.com/timetoshare. Please join us…
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Apple’s iPhone OS Event: Live Coverage
I’m at Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 event. Join me to learn what’s in iPhone OS 4.0, starting at 10am PT.
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Join Us on Thursday for Live Apple iPhone OS Event Coverage
What’s next for the softwarethat powers the iPhone and iPad? On Thursday morning at 10am PT, we can stop wishing and speculating. I’ll be in Cupertino for Apple’s event on the future of the iPhone OS, and I hope that you’ll join me for our live coverage.
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The Joke Was on Them
If you venture onto the Web at all today, you run the risk of being crushed to death by an avalanche of April Fools’ gags. Technologizer, however, is a prank-free zone today. Which doesn’t mean we’re ignoring the holiday–we just decided to celebrate it by reveling in art and descriptions that were used to sell practical jokes sixty years ago. As far as I can tell, it was an age when April Fools’ Day happened 365 times a year…
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Harry Elsewhere on the Web This Week
I’m in chilly New York rather than rainy San Francisco right now. And while I’m here, I’m guesting on two Web video broadcasts you might want to catch:
* At 1pm ET on Thursday, I’ll talk about collaborative tools–their potential and pitfalls–on a BusinessWeek Webcast. You can sign up for it here.
* At 3pm ET on Friday, I”ll join Fox News’s Clayton Morris as one of the guests on his Gadgets and Games show, part of FoxNews.com’s Strategy Room.
Two very different topics–but I plan to have fun discussing both of ’em…
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Ads, Ad Blockers, Technologizer, and You
Over at Ars Technica, founder Ken Fisher has an interesting post on ad blockers and a devilish experiment that Ars performed on Friday: For twelve hours, it blocked back, preventing users of ad-blocking software from seeing any content. Fisher says the counterstrike was a mixed success at best. But he also says that forty percent of Ars visitors block ads, and that doing so can be “devastating to the sites you love.”
As I’ve said before, Technologizer doesn’t need everybody to see the ads here–just a critical mass of folks. I don’t have a reliable way to measure how many visitors use an ad blocker, but here’s a guesstimate: In February, roughly fifteen percent of all Technologizer page views had the ads blocked. I might be more alarmed if the numbers looked more like Ars’, but we have that critical mass of people who don’t block ads. And I’m sure that some of the visitors who block are leaving worthwhile comments, telling their friends about Technologizer, or otherwise doing things that make this a better site and a better business proposition.
Or to put it another way: Ad blocking isn’t devastating Technologizer.
In the Ars post, Fisher says that he takes pride in the fact that his site’s ads aren’t in-your-face crud. Which led me to realize that although Technologizer has a number of guiding principles about the advertising we carry, I’ve never outlined them here.
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Where the History of Tech is For Sale
Yesterday I paid a long-overdue visit to one of the Bay Area’s most amazing geek destinations–the Weird Stuff Warehouse, which salvages the hardware and software that Silicon Valley has lost interest in. The place has been in business for a quarter century and throngs of shoppers were roaming the aisles during my expedition. And it was bursting at the seams with shrinkwrapped software for defunct platforms, obsolete gadgets, components and cables of every imaginable type, and much, much more.