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Just a quick post to draw your attention to this presentation about Shanzhai phones in China. Shanzhai means something like ‘mountain hideout’ and they are a kind of guerrilla class of new devices appearing on the streets of Beijing. The designs range from the batshit-crazy (but, yes, I want one):
It’s not too hard to connect this, which arrived in my inbox today:
with this, which arrived in my spam box today:
Check out this forthcoming phone from Indian mobile manufacturer, Lava:
Notice anything unusual compared to the normal Nokia/Blackberry fare?
Should people be allowed to be anonymous online? World of Warcraft developer Blizzard seems somewhat undecided. Earlier this week, it introduced a Real ID scheme that would force people to post under their real names on its forums. Following widespread protests at this movement of goalposts — from pretty-much 12mn of the game’s 12mn subscribers — the company has today backed down on the idea. The anonymity debate on web forums is a timeless classic. I last tackled the subject here, where I argued that being able to hide your identity is a key, important characteristic of web communications and ought t0 be protected with as great a fervour as net neutrality, if not more. It used to contain my test of the Guardian news feed WordPress plugin. De-activating the plugin disables all the articles connected to it, as shown here, changes the title of your post, removes the tags, all the content (not just the feed content, but whatever you had to say about it, too) and the extract. I wasn’t thrilled about the amount of control it was exercising on my blog’s content in the first place: dictating the title of the post, the tags and the excerpt. It also reverted these when I tried to change them. So I disabled it, whereupon it’s added insult to injury. So, nice idea. Horrible in practice. Sorry. |             | |||
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