1/12 必読記事・論考(IT)

WSJ 1/12/05 Test-Driving the $99 iPod, Stripped-Down Model Delivers On Song Capacity, Battery Life But Lacks Screen and Wheel by Walter S. Mossberg
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110548347772523279,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs

In my tests, the iPod Shuffle performed well, exceeding Apple's claims.
Apple puts the new player's battery life at 12 hours on a single charge. But, in my testing, it did much better than that, lasting 15 hours and 44 minutes.
Similarly, I found that the iPod Shuffle could hold many more songs than Apple claims. By choosing manual mode to load the player, I was able to cram as many as 188 songs onto my 512-megabyte test model, rather than the 120 Apple claims, without reducing the audio quality of the songs. That's because Apple's calculation is based on four-minute songs, but many pop and rock tunes, especially those from the '60s and '70s, are actually much shorter than that.
Even when I used the random Autofill mode to load my test player, I always got 130 to 150 songs, mainly because my library skews heavily toward artists like the Beatles, Beach Boys, James Taylor and Motown artists, whose songs rarely last four minutes.

Still, this is a good product that will enlarge the iPod's appeal, especially with kids, people on low budgets, or people who work out. I imagine some existing iPod owners will also buy Shuffles as sort of add-on players. And the iPod juggernaut will roll on.

Business Week 1/12/05 Mozilla Is Gaining on Godzilla, With the open-source community on its side and many lessons learned, the browser upstart keeps taking market-share from Microsoft
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2005/tc20050112_0827_tc119.htm
Always On 1/11/05 'Build,' Not 'Buy,' to Be IT Motto for '05, Or so predicted Roger McNamee when he and fellow tech luminaries like Joe Schoendorf and Esther Dyson met to debate what's in store for the technology industry in the coming year.
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=7634_0_1_0_C
Pressthink 1/7/05 Guest Writer Simon Waldman: The Importance of Being Permanent, The Guardian's Web guy: "Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like 'news as conversation' fall away, because you're shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you're certainly not part of it."
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/01/07/wldm_perm.html
Read/Write Web 1/11/05 Feedburner's RSS Aggregator Market Share stats
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002631.php
FPN 1/12/05 ゲームアイテムの売買とバーチャル経済
http://www.future-planning.net/x/modules/news/article.php?storyid=340
Wired-J 12/22/04 禁止しても拡大する、ゲームアイテムの売買
http://hotwired.goo.ne.jp/news/business/story/20041222105.html