A few weeks back I was thinking about getting a BlackJack. Well, I did, and I’ve been slowly getting up to speed on its features.
One immediate annoyance was the way Cingular/Samsung have configured the JBlend Java Virtual Machine on the phone. That had to go, or the phone was going back to the store.
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In “The ‘Dumbness of Crowds,’” Kathy Sierra points out that the notion of the Wisdom of Crowds has been poorly understood, especially as it concerns creative endeavors.
She draws a distinction between “Collective Intelligence” properly controlled and leverage and “The Dumbness of Crowds”:
Hey!Watch launched over the holidays.
Got an invitation code this weekend, just as I was getting up to speed on using my new Samsung Blackjack phone. Ah, the joy of synchronicity.
What Hey!Watch does is allow you to transcode video – translating it from one format to another.
In and of itself, that’s nothing to write home (or blog) about. But, they’ve added a number of features that I think are remarkable.
