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press and gaming industry to attend nature abhors a vacuum and with e3 morphing into a smaller summer show in santa monica there s an opportunity for another gaming convention extravaganza the cea which has plenty of experience with mammoth trade shows pondered launching an e3 replacement only to decide against it with the reorganization of e3 and the masses of people expected to attend the tokyo game show many observers are asking whether these huge shows outlived their usefulness an increasing number of developers are turning towards smaller in house events where they can show their games to bloggers as well as the mainstream gaming press these events allow the companies to show off their games in an optimal and controlled environment without the cost of travelling to a tradeshow and buying booth space the bang for the buck is much higher this is a trend that will probably continue as shows this large make it hard for even the big name games to make an impression thanks to dave girard for help with the japanese translation ben kuchera contributed to this story discussion send to a friend permanent link one zune exec out j allard takes over the program posted february 1 2007 12 32pm by nate anderson bryan lee the executive in charge of business development for the zune program is stepping down from microsoft to be replaced by j allard the bald hipster who received much of the credit for building the xbox brand microsoft insists that lee a 43 year old is retiring for personal reasons and absolutely not because of corporate displeasure over the zune launch lee came to microsoft in 2000 as the chief financial officer for the home entertainment group he s at home dealing with business matters he holds a degree in accounting spent several years working for arthur andersen and negotiated contracts at sony pictures entertainment for 13 years when he was promoted to corporate vice president at microsoft lee headed many of the negotiations for zune content which meant endless hours of discussions with music labels good times lee was also on the receiving end of universal s really great idea that it get paid one dollar out of every zune sale to make up for the alleged piracy that the device s new users were sure to rush out and engage in consumers might have thought that a man who lists his favorite band as the rolling stones would have told universal you can t always get what you want but it was not to be and universal got their money lee tried to get the industry to loosen its grip on the music even telling reporters that he would be organizing a conference early in 2007 to discuss the 3 days 3 plays restriction and other details now that he s leaving the status of this alleged pow wow is unknown microsoft has publicly expressed confidence in the new music player saying repeatedly that it is on track to sell one million zunes by july and that it is in the market for the long term both of these things may well be true and the zune is an attractive player in many ways but it has significant problems not least among them is the almost total worthlessness of the built in wifi making the company s decision to use the tag welcome to the social unfortunate despite the public shows of confidence lee s abrupt departure apparently indicates microsoft s displeasure with the zune s showing so far the elevation of allard who has a reputation as something of a golden boy at microsoft certainly sends the signal that microsoft is serious about building the zune into a quality brand allard and his team did fine work on the 360 and helped make xbox live a best of breed service he also helped design the zune but lee handled the business aspects of the player allard s new role will expand to include all of those duties now that he has total control of the zune division can allard do what he did with the xbox make the second generation smaller sexier and more useful and can he get the music industry to see things his way discussion send to a friend permanent link seagate introduces us to dave posted february 1 2007 12 28pm by jacqui cheng more drive makers are adding to the selection of mobile content servers to debut in 2007 as seagate formally announced this week the digital audio video experience dave dave will be a small portable hard drive that will use wifi and bluetooth to transfer media and other files between devices seagate s goal with dave will be to allow users to freely access their files at any time from nearly any device dave will come in the form of a slim motorola razr sized drive enclosure that appears to be aimed heavily at the mobile phone market seagate states that dave will be the answer for providing more storage to mobile phones without having to bump the cost or size of handsets themselves in addition to allowing service providers to increase music and video services without as much concern about available storage space dave will also allow two way communication from various devices meaning that users will also be able to navigate the contents of the drive from their cell phones and laptops seagate expects dave s battery life to be able to handle about 14 days of standby and 10 hours of media streaming performance like the agere bluonyx media server announced at the end of last year seagate is not marketing the device under its own corporate name but instead allowing other companies to sell the product with their own branding it will also be an open source system allowing third party developers to write apps to interface with dave from various devices unlike the bluonyx however the dave will have lower storage capacity 10 20gb compared to bluonyx s up to 40gb and will not have any sort of wired usb connection or card reader possibly limiting its use to newer devices and savvier users who know how to set up wifi and bluetooth on their laptops and cell phones seagate says that the company hopes the dave will turn mobile phones into dvr mp3 powerhouses but that doesn t necessarily mean that the drive will enable unauthorized devices to play drmed files agere s bluonyx will be drm agnostic the company told ars at ces meaning that it will respect whatever usage rights are associated with a media file acting merely as a mass storage device it s likely that the dave will function in the same manner due to the hoops the company would likely have to jump through in order to authorize other devices to play drmed content both the bluonyx and dave are expected to be available in 2007 with the dave beating bluonyx to market in the second quarter of the year discussion send to a friend permanent link flickr s shift to yahoo id requirement sparks virtual rioting posted february 1 2007 12 06pm by jon stokes as we at ars have learned over the years every time you alter anything about a site that has a strong community you take a certain amount of heat from a small but loyal portion of users who don t want to see changes in something they love so it is with some portions of the flickr community which is in an uproar over flickr s decision to stick to its guns on a long announced set of changes to the photo sharing site opinions are split on the justification of flickr users fury some think that the outraged users are making a mountain out of a molehill while others can identify with these users sense that they ve been stripped of something valuable to them i think they re both right in the sense that when it comes to matters of identity a molehill as small as a login id or a head scarf or a foreskin can mean everything a brief history of the flickr flap after flickr was acquired by yahoo in early 2005 the company initially stated that users would be able to keep their flickr e mail based login ids and that the ability to login with a yahoo id would simply be added onto the new service this policy changed later in the year when flickr announced that holders of old skool their spelling flickr accounts would have to acquire a yahoo id in order to log in to the site screams and strange popping sounds were reported throughout the country as flickr users heads exploded instantly upon hearing news of the forced account migration the folks at flickr who settled on the new mandatory yahoo id policy have recently justified it by pointing out that 95 percent of the flickr user base is now signing in with a yahoo id but in spite of the 2005 announcement there is a diehard 5 percent core of flickr users who apparently aren t interested in signing up with yahoo these so called old skool flickr users value their identity as members of an exclusive club of early adopters and they re outraged at having the signal marker of this identity a non yahoo login id stripped from them by the company references to the borg abound in reference to the forced yahoo id assimilation and many old skool users have announced their intention to go elsewhere there s no place like home i understand yahoo s need to further integrate flickr s legacy users with the rest of the sprawling web company s account infrastructure and if i were in flickr s yahoo s shoes i d do the same thing however flickr s administrators and everyone else in the world of online community building would be wise to take a page from the wizard of oz s playbook and throw old skool users some kind of bone like a medal of courage or a diploma for making the trek with them all the way down the yellow brick road those who run online and offline communities know that you can t please everybody and that old school members are the most demanding and change resistant but when it comes to major community status markers you have to bend over backwards to accommodate the members who really value this sort of thing in flickr s case some kind of differentiating marker for legacy members would be nice like a badge or a title or some other visible signifier of the major investment that these senior users have made in the community seniority perks and visible signifiers of in group status are anthropology 101 and no amount of web 2 0 pixie dust can change that basic fact of human nature community sites that forget this in the midst of changes and genuine improvements do irreparable damage to the very social networks that they re striving to build discussion send to a friend permanent link google earnings search sizzles but ads are the steak posted february 1 2007 11 40am by eric bangeman google continued raking in the money during the final quarter of 2006 reporting income of 1 03 billion or 3 29 per share that s nearly triple the search giant s previous year results of 372 2 million 1 22 per share the fourth quarter figures trounced analyst expectations of 2 92 per share the beyond expectations earnings have become routine for google which has beaten the street s numbers in nine out of ten quarters since its 2004 ipo its stock has soared from its ipo level of 85 to today s 490 range shares in google however dropped after the earnings were announced as some investors were anticipating even better numbers to no one s surprise online ad revenues were the engine powering google s growth during its earnings call google cfo george reyes said that adsense revenues came in at 1 2 billion noting that google ad click throughs had risen 61 percent from the same quarter in 2005 and 22 percent from the third quarter schmidt said that the growth was evidence that the company s strategy of displaying fewer ads of higher relevance with each query is paying off one topic of interest on the conference call was the performance of youtube google ceo eric schmidt said that the company wouldn t be breaking out youtube revenue separately so the video site s revenues and margins will remain a mystery schmidt said that google s primary focus with youtube is user adoption and that the unit would continue to be run as a separate business while they experimented with different advertising models he also reiterated that google is working on audio and video fingerprinting for the video service to address copyright issues google also touched on its plans to expand its advertising reach beyond the internet into print radio and television in response to a question on television plans schmidt said that google was experimenting with tv advertising and whatever the company ends up doing with be new and different from the way it is currently sold and marketed the company sees an opportunity with set top boxes especially those that are ip addressable to deliver more granular data to advertisers for all the talk of mobile content partnerships business services and new advertising platforms it s clear that the search engine and the associated advertising revenues are the fuel stoking google s fire the latest round of figures from traffic trackers like comscore hitwise and nielsen netratings show google s search share continuing to grow at the expense of its competitors hitwise reported that google had 63 1 percent of all searches for december and january while nielsen pegged the company at 50 8 percent for december with that kind of traffic the company has plenty of room to experiment elsewhere discussion send to a friend permanent link does network neutrality mean an end to bittorrent throttling posted february 1 2007 10 21am by nate anderson now that bittorrent is all grown up and has been given the keys to its parents car isps are faced with the difficult decision about how to handle the protocol companies from around the world have been throttling the service which can sometimes eat up three quarters of a provider s total bandwidth throttling could be seen as a legitimate response to this bandwidth crunch if all bittorrent content were illegal but of course it s not so what s an isp to do especially if they have agreed to run a neutral network bittorrent has always had its legal uses one popular application is distributing linux isos but legal uses of the software have become increasingly common over the last year bittorrent the company has announced its own plans to go legit offering drmed hollywood movies from major studios the company has already raised almost 9 million in venture capital and has signed deals with several of the major studios its service should launch sometime in february or consider zudeo the bittorrent based service from azureus which is trying to do much the same thing but in high definition it is also poised to send massive amounts of traffic through the net but isps won t be able to tell simply by looking at a packet whether it s legitimate or not the protocol has become popular enough that opera has built in support for bittorrent downloads and blizzard s own world of warcraft update program is built on open source bittorrent technology while this litany of legal services can lead to cries for isps to stop shaping bittorrent traffic the reality remains that a large percentage of this traffic is still illicit file swapping and whether it s legal or not no isp is thrilled to have 80 percent of their network capacity given o...