CCB 2.0 老喬流水帳

TiVo入手

今天TGC替你您錄公司到我家替我裝TiVo. 再次感謝TGC/奧美給我們這麼好的福利 ;-)

TiVo是什麼? 看看Wikipedia怎麼說 :-)

TGC的服務非常貼心. 上午跟我聯繫的小姐聲音非常的甜美, 兩次打來確認安裝時間還有我的網路環境, 下午來府安裝的工程師, 更是一路跪著替我安裝並解說這台混合電視和網路的大硬碟. 雖然安裝的過程耗時一個小時...想想要同時搞定電視和網路設定,也實在不是一件容易的事.

目前是TGC公司親自派員到府安裝, 我比較擔心未來聯強或是大同的staff接手安裝工作後, 一定會有更多tech support的issue.  主要的Bottleneck還是出在(無線)網路設定.

在美國由於Cable Modem比較盛行, 所以安裝比較容易,  在台灣ADSL盛行, TiVo看起來就變成一個匯流電話線和電視線的集線器了. TiVo背後有一個Ethernet port, 有兩個USB port, 我目前利用USB無線網卡去access TiVo的program server, 可下載中文化的節目資訊. TiVo節目選單非常好用, 這讓我想到Web 2.0時代的操作介面, 應該要多向TiVo學習.

TiVo把電視機變聰明, 或許也會增加我跟小朋友在客廳玩電視(遙控器)的時間. 我會建議TiVo腳步要加快, 因為Microsoft已經追上來了, 準備讓你家的電視當機....:-P

TiVo在PCHome有得買. 第一年的資訊服務免費. 未來可能每年收取1500元的資訊服務費, 我想應該也會有一些MOD或是其他加值服務. 替我安裝的工程師, 則不肯透漏目前的用戶數, 但我想也有不少的公關機吧.

TiVo最好玩的地方是能"暫停"目前你所看到的節目. 可以play back現場節目, 當然也可以每天定時預錄韓劇或是日劇. 我最想玩的是能Blog新聞節目的片斷然後給他remix....anyway等我週末有空來深入了解一下, 使用心得後補.

update: 按這裡看美味書籤上的tivo tag. Fred大哥站上也有相關討論.

Enjoy Tokyo

There's no doubt about the conveinece of travelling in Tokyo. I noticed this time that the Tokyo Metro Cooperation started a service called Let's Enjoy Tokyo, a web site for shopping, dinning, events, entertainment around the subway stations. Extremely useful! My JPRS colleague also introduced a similar service called EKIMACHI. JPRS simply would like to encourage and promote the usage of Japanese domain name (e.g. 日文.jp), yet the service itself is also about information around the subway or train stations in Tokyo and in other cities in Japan. They work with Yahoo and Google and make this service available for mobile handset. Again extremely useful for a lazy toursit like me.

(zh-tw)這次在東京, 除了我本來的拜會行程外, 最妙的就是在飯店大廳與工頭眼神交會接著互相指認對方的那一刻, 最遺憾的也就是沒有機會跟工頭率領的十六位台灣美女一起在東京過聖誕節...昨晚和Rachel, Akai-san等吃燒肉時聽他們講秋葉原最熱門Maid Cafe (what is this?), 我跟工頭兩個加起來七十好幾的老灰仔,好像回春一樣, 荷爾蒙直衝腦門, 恨不得立即更改行程....

Let's Enjoy Tokyo, next time!

-->Also see Rachel's entry.

Ken Hansen / Cibernet

This is Ken. A Long time friend of mine. We have spent a good time together last week, with lots of good food and laughes.

This year Ken visited Taipei for like 5~6 times. Taipei has become his second home. I even took him to hotspring during his last visit. Usually I don't see western people would appreciate public bath... I am getting frequent hotspring-mileage for him as well...

I recently decided to join his company called Cibernet, as the Regional Engineering Director in Asia Pac. Cibernet provides  neutral data & financial clearinghouse service for international roaming between mobile operators. Ken and I will be around Asia Pac for sure in the next couple years. Let's firstly celebrate Ken's deep involvement in Asian / Chinese culture. He seems to enjoy it very much, can tell that in the picture above..;-)

Dinner with Prof. Goto

Dinner with Prof. Goto
Originally uploaded by Ching Chiao.

I visited Waseda University this afternoon and met with Prof. Shigeki Goto. He is now the President of JPNIC and also serves other important role in Japanese government and academic fields. He's the pioneer of Internet in Asia Pac. I have met him numerous time before but this time I finally got the chance to speak with him, face-to-face, at the dinner table.

He is now my mentor, as he is to many others. He mentioned that why we need Internet, why we need to place fiber optics between regions--it's because we need to know people there. We need to make friends and to understand other better. The Internet is the gateway not only for communication, but friendship, and he means friendship in a global scale.

Goto-san also shared his 20-80 theory with me. My original interpretation of "80-20" is that we generate 80% of totol revenue from the 20% of all our customers. He put this in another way. Without Internet, it takes 20 Japanese to understand one thing, and those 20 people will have influence on the other 80 people. With Internet, it only takes 4 kids to understand how the rest of the world look like and then share with the other 4 people...and the ball keeps rolling!

Internet is so powerful. Young generation in Japan as well as in other countries should open up their mind and get in touch with each other. This is how Internet becomes useful...not for special purpose, but simply Friendship!

IP(v6)戰士

美國國防部最近在US IPv6 Summit揭露未來所謂Net-Centric戰場資訊管理.

~Every weapon, sensor, & platform has an IP(v6) address~

據悉美國國防部將於2008年全面導入 IPv6相容的網路設備, 對台灣廠商是一大利多. But我不是好戰份子或是鼓勵任何戰爭, 我對於IPv6在自動化控制或是醫療保健更有興趣. 這篇只是說美國國防部已經有明確的需求, 請廠商們別忘睜大眼睛看.

IP資源也勢必成為兵家必爭之地. 未來TWNIC總部應該要有軍警負責守護 :-P

見下圖(copyright Dean W. Cash).

(hint: 請至此網址下載這次高峰會所有簡報. pwd: IPV62005 <大寫>. 非常值得一看!)

Yahoo + MT / SixApart

see news from  Y! Small Business |  CNET | Reuters

這證明了Y!360是給業餘人士用的, MT才是收的到錢的professional blog service...

(老實說我也不知道自己在胡言亂語什麼...blog就blog, 還分職業或業餘...or或許真的該有個協會來辦理職業blogger甲-乙-丙級認證?)

.cn /.tw joint promotion on Network Solution

click this link to register..."the more we(cn + tw) work together, the happier we'll be". Good job Neulevel!

Yahoo說: 真好吃 (delicious!)

見此文. 我想反應是兩級的. 相較於del.icio.us往商業利益靠攏, Mozilla或是向CC更值得令人敬佩. 但不要忘了你現在的donation並不表示未來你可以列在這些組織(如果)商業化之後的股東名冊.

wikipedia也差不多要被收編了吧?

另, ".oo"這個網址不錯. 有潛力! IANA ccTLD database裡頭還沒有. 我就會註冊 q.oo或是y.oo... :-P

BTW看到此事也想起多日前, 曾與charles談到TWNIC來架ping server, 然後提供給所有blogger/BSP來ping. 我再來繼續push這件事!

PCHome搞什麼飛機?

今天(週六)一早, 跟小朋友約好說上PCHome看相機. 一進首頁, 看到以下的連結:

小朋友國字能力最近增強不少. 我當下先叫他出去幫我找兩本書. 我點進去, 發現這其實不是直接的重大新聞事件聯結, 而只是PCHome提供的新聞搜尋服務. 我心裡想, 網路家庭的工作原來就是在周六把社會上一些顛三倒四的事情, 帶入一般民眾的家庭?

搜尋也就算了. 準確一點嗎...原來海珊也跟女房仲 or 崩潰 or 洗澡這些關鍵字有關...@#$%??

NCC審查聽證會

(via Yahoo-TVBS)

(右圖為政大劉幼琍老師 copyright TVBS)....NCC審薦委員邵玉銘：「新聞台接受政商委託，而在新聞內容中介入進行置入性行銷，有無必要立法規範？」NCC委員候選人劉幼俐：「我們的廣電法裡面有講說，節目跟廣告是要分開的。」NCC審薦委員邵玉銘：「政府不能帶頭違法！」...NCC審薦委員吳靜雄：「衛星廣播電視法是沒有說規定，間接投資，直接投資有限制，這兩個有沒有矛盾？」NCC委員候選劉幼俐：「現階段增加政府談判的籌碼，所以還是維持現狀。....NCC審薦委員陳儀深：「地下電台是一種反抗，是一種突破，要消滅他才是唯一出路嗎？」NCC委員候選人劉幼俐：「你只要成立一家電視台，就必須要執照。」...參加口試的專家學者，得在70分鐘內回答超過30個專業問題，連當老師的學者都吃不消。NCC委員候選人劉幼俐：「我是第一個我真的不知道，大家會用什麼方式來進行，第一個人來講說，挑戰也是特別大。」

早上ㄧ面健檢, ㄧ面看電視斷斷續續地播審查會. 網路也有直播服務. 就如我之前預料的, 還沒有審查委員問到未來NCC要如何看待數位影語音匯流或是triple play的問題. 這些審查人只關心電台執照還有媒體, 更大一塊的牛肉(通訊產業, 網際網路), 我想他們也吃不下去...況且ㄧ直繞著跟之前有關係的政治議題打轉, 對於未來NCC政策性的陳述或是委員的遠景, 好像都沒有聽到(或是電視沒有播). 這樣真的浪費了像劉幼琍教授這樣優秀的候選人, 也把NCC的scope做小了.

我(應該早一點)提供幾題給大家參考. 請問XXX候選人:
1. 你未來三年內, 對於網際網路整體的看法? NCC要如何做好網路管制同時能以及增進網路普及率?
2. 你對於WiMAX在m-Taiwan計畫裡頭扮演的腳色有什麼看法?
3. 你認為NCC如何協助台灣一二類電信, 做好未來五年的產業規劃?
4. 你認為NCC十三位委員彼此間要如何搭配運作, 讓NCC能維持中立, 不淪落成為朝野攻防的祭品?
5. 你如何看待具有破壞性的新科技? 你如何讓科技與政策維持某種程度的平衡關係?
.....

哀...藍綠兩黨這次都不及格! 遜呆了!