Tuttle Portsmouth is a great meet-up of friendly people interested in social media, marketing, business, and technology. If your in the area it’s well worth taking the time out to attend.

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During Prince’s first British newspaper interview for 10 years, he said:

“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it.”

He later went on to comment:

“The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

The comments made in the interview with Peter Willis for the Mirror comes on the eve of the debut of Prince’s album 20TEN, and most likely a bid to gain media coverage. And it has worked.

Amongst my daily emails, I noticed that Business Insider are leading with the story “The Doomed Internet” and how maybe Prince is right. They highlight in the article the recent plight of Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo and MySpace.

“The Doomed Internet“, come on, really!?! Personally I think they chucked that title out there for page views and comments.

All five of the brands featured in the article are failing because of their own mistakes. Failure to innovate, the loss of that entrepreneurial start-up spirit has caused them to become stale and left behind.

They are all guilty of it, and it’s this level of laziness and greed which will be there down fall, and unlike start-ups where it is all about the user and innovation, these dinosaurs are all about the margins and profit.

But unlike Microsoft who have roots in the real world, and don’t solely rely on internet users for revenue, the others will ultimately be over taken and confined to internet history. Heck they may even try to reinvent themselves again, but there is only so many times you can do that.

Who knows what the future holds for these brands, but there success or failure is not a benchmark for the internet as a whole, and as much as I admirer Prince and his music, I’m not going to take his technology views to hart.

Easy and faultless upgrade using my Windows 7 64bit system. So having installed it on my 32GB 3GS what’s the verdict? Well Safari seems much quicker now especially in page loads, as well as improvements to the spell checker, folders are cool but long overdue, backgrounds and new transitions look smart, and multi-tasking is good and quick.

One thing on the multi-tasking though, every time you hit the home button to exit an app it goes into multi tasking. That is a bit of a pain, I don’t want every app I use running in the background. I also haven’t seen the “iBooks” yet. No icon on the dashboard for it, so maybe that’s a US thing for now.

Apart from that it’s nice to see that the fetch email is still buggy. I told it NOT to fetch my emails automaticly, but it still does! All in all 4 out of 5.

“SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail”

It appears, at least in my tests, that Hotmail doesn’t like receiving emails from smtp servers that are different to the senders email address/domain. In other words if the senders domain is ge3k.co.uk but the email is received from relay.o2broadband.co.uk it will be flag as spam and bounced back.

For me it hasn’t been happening until recently, so I’ve now been forced to start using my domains smtp servers instead, but this brings up another issue. O2 actively blocks port 25 used for outgoing mail, and instead provides the above mail relay server address for people to use. They claim this is to prevent mail spammers using their broadband service to spam people, but this is a poor excuse at best.

This problem is more of an issue for O2 customers who don’t have a static I.P Address, this is because these customers are lumpt with using O2′s replay server only, whereas customers who have a static I.P Address can send using their own domains smtp server. Strange, yes, although I have had sending issues before, even though I do have a static I.P and I’m a business customers, hence the reason why I switch to using O2′s mail replay server in the first place.

I hope this helps to explain this issue a bit more for those having the same problem.

They attempt to outline way Mark Zuckerberg should resign as head of Facebook, something which I personally think would be a massive mistake.

It seems to me that Business Insider has it in for Mark, period. It seems that not a week goes past without some kind of Zuckerberg or Facebook bashing article from Business Insider.

The fact of the matter is Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook what it is today, and I very much doubt any other Management-esc CEO drafted in by some suits would do half as good a job, or even reach half the amount of users that Facebook currently has.

Sure he’s made mistakes, just about every businessman on or off the net has, it’s all part of the learning process, but the fact of the matter is Mark is Facebook, and Facebook is Mark. Without his guidance it wouldn’t be the success it is, and if the VC’s had their way it would be yet another MySpace chugging along, devoid of the passion and edge that web start-ups have.

So hey, cut him some slack. And if you want to see someone torn apart in an interview, try watching the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman. From MP’s to Prime Ministers, he doesn’t hold back.

The article covers the leaks of the soon to be announced iPhone 4G, including the now infamous Gizmodo first look which brought the raft of Apple down upon them. Then the Vietnamese bloggers video coverage of the device, and now Czech and Portuguese bloggers joining in.

Comments over at Business Insider drifted into the fact that the iPhone has always been behind on spec, mainly in the realms of camera and screen pixel density. Someone quite righty pointed out that the high end HTC devices use OLED. They went on to comment:

“There are rumors saying that the next generation iPad will use OLED, which would be awesome because it is much better to use outdoors.”

Whilst I agree that OLED is the way forward, until the cost of manufacturing an OLED device drops, namely the panel itself, it won’t make an appearance on the iPad.

Apple really needs to pull it socks up on spec. The last 3 versions of the iPhone have been poorly spec’ed compared to rival devices. Poor camera, no flash/light source for the camera, and limited storage are just some of the gripes. True there design is nice, and yes the software and app store have pretty much saved the device, but it won’t be its safety net for long. Other app stores will pop-up, as they already are, and Apple may get left behind or at the very least knocked into second place.

As for these videos and pictures popping up everywhere, I just can’t help but think it’s all part of the greater hype for the announcement later this month. Apple ploy maybe, possibly, not that Apple wouldn’t ever admit they are engineering the hype.

It looks ok, but I’m not as convinced as others. Not to mention Windows Media Centre (I’ve built a few for clients, friends and myself) which has been a flavour of Windows since XP, and then there’s Apples stab at this market with Apply T.V, plus Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii all including T.V and IP T.V functions.

Sure it maybe big in the U.S, but that’s it. This is mainly due to services like Hulu and Netflix, who restrict their content to the U.S. Google would have to enter into the fun game that is international T.V and movie licensing. Many have tried, and many have failed.

Assuming they get the content, the next question is, do we need yet another box? Also who is building this box? Won’t be Google, that’s not there thing.

Final thoughts, well Boxee is already in this market, they also have a hardware partner and prototypes built, and the release is coming. Sure Google has the might to crush all those in its path, but honestly….nah, just leave it Google.

This was exciting 2 maybe 3 years ago, but not now. I got my iPhone to surf on in front of the T.V, or even the iPad and other flavours of portable net tech. But it all boils down to this, sometimes you just want to unplug from the net and watch the telly, that’s all.

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Going to sound like an old man now, but…..that takes me back to the early-mid 90′s. A time of US Robotics external modems and the sounds of one computer talking to another. I used quite a few BBSes back then before I eventually ran one myself for a short while. Yep back in the day of file upload/download ratios and beautifully designed ASCII screens. P2P file sharing (Napster and bit torrent) was still a pipe dream (no pun intended), and the largest hard drive you could hope for was around 500MB to 1.28GB. Happy days!

If you want to take a trip down memory lane check out this post on Crunch Gear: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/17/happy-birthday-bbs/ and also this great article on Wired: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board