Sometimes I wish I could read your mind.
“hipsta-matic is the auto-tune of photography”
Brantley Gutierrez(me)
"— (via brantleygutierrez)
Kik has released a new experiment in smart remote control of computer screens — and maybe a foreshadowing of smart remote control of internet-connected TVs. The system is called Clik — clikthis.com on the web side and an app called Clik on the smartphone. By synching a QR code from the Screen via the mobile app, the mobile user can control what is being displayed on the computer (or TV) screen:
Anthony Ha via Techcrunch
You point your desktop browser at ClikThis.com, which generates a unique QR code. Then you open the Clik iPhone or Android app, aim the camera at the screen, and the app uses the code to figure out which device you’re trying to control. Once it’s synced up, you can select YouTube videos from your phone, and they’ll play on the screen.
Right now it’s only YouTube videos, but this is simply the start of something big. The CEO of Kik, Ted Livingston said, ‘Every screen just becomes a dumb output for your smart remote.’
(via emergentfutures)
Omnia vincit amor! Quod et demonstrandum.
Soooo.. You said no. And then you asked me if I was okay. Do I get to say no?
Thursday! Its Thursday!
This Motorola deal continues its downward spiral. It’s already a bad — some might say awful — deal from a pure business perspective. But now the seemingly lone bright spot of the deal for Google — the patents — are turning into a headache as well.
Bloomberg only mildly touches on some of this, Daniel Eran Dilger of AppleInsider and Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents go deeper. Of note: if Google is committed to staying the course with Motorola’s patent licensing strategy (which they say they are), they’re going to find themselves enforcing patents related to H.264, the video codec that Google itself is trying to kill with WebM.
They also may find themselves suing Apple over patents and demanding a royalty for each iPhone sold.
The problem Google is likely to face is that if they aren’t agressive with the patents in the way that Motorola has been, how can they possibly hope to license them in the way they say they will? Who would license something when they don’t have to? This is a slippery slope.
Bigger picture: after going on and on about the dubious patent tactics by rivals like Apple and Microsoft (and rightfully so in most cases), Google may find themselves in the same position thanks to this Motorola deal.
