Desain produk-produk teknologi semakin cantik dan menarik. Perusahaan teknologi masa kini tak hanya berkutat dengan urusan spesifikasi teknis, tetapi juga sangat mementingkan desain produk. Seperti telephone headset “Earglove BlueVoice” yang didesain oleh Essential.

Telephone headset ini didesain Essential buat Fellowes untuk merek Bodyglove dan memiliki kemampuan Bluetooth. Fitur desainnya memungkinkan buat pemakainya untuk mengatur adjustable-gain boom melalui desain mic ke arah mulut saat gangguan suara dari belakang menjadi masalah.

Image: http://www.essential-design.com

MSi Wind Notebook Specification:

Windows Version
CPU
Intel Atom 1.6 GHz
Operating System
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition™
Chipset
Intel 945GMS, ICH7-M
Display
10?W (1024×600) LED
VGA
UMA
Memory
1GB DDR2/ 667MHz
Hard Drive
80G / 2.5” SATA
Battery
6 Cells / 5.5 hrs
WLAN
802.11b/g
Bluetooth
Yes
Webcam
1.3m
Dimensions
10.23? x 7.08? x 0.748? ~1.24?
Weight
2.6lbs
Available Colors
White, Black, and Pink
MSRP
$499

Pada saat bersamaan, Hermawan Kertajaya, pakar pemasaran dari MarkPlus menyatakan bahwa Kompas Online dalam waktu singkat akan menyalip DetikCom yang saat ini menjadi pemain teratas di bisnis berita online. Pernyataan dari Hermawan ini masih menunggu waktu untuk dinilai apakah terbukti atau tidak. Tetapi, resource Kompas yang luar biasa dalam bisnis Koran memang memiliki potensi untuk mendorong Kompas. Salah satunya melalui cross-marketing sebagaimana yang dilakukan Kompas hari ini (31/5/2008) melalui berita di koran Kompas halaman 32 berjudul: “Sandra Dewi Ikon Kompas.com”.

Dari sisi trafik, melalui alat ukur Alexa, pada saat ini memang terlihat tren menyempitnya gap antara Kompas dengan DetikCom. Silakan lihat gambar di bawah ini, yang merupakan Alexa Chart perbandingan trafik Kompas, Detik, dan OkeZone.

Wow… cool… !

On Saturday, classifieds rules. Mobile internet users tend to access local information for their personal activities on weekend. It explains their choice on Craigslist and eBay.

This is the list of 10 most visited sites according to M:Metrics.

1. Craigslist - 99 minutes (average time spent)
2. eBay - 86 minutes
3. MySpace - 85 minutes
4. Facebook - 84 minutes
5. Go.com - 67 minutes
6. Google - 63 minutes
7. Yahoo Mobile - 53 minutes
8. AOL - 41 minutes
9. Live.com - 37 minutes
10. CNN - 28 minutes

Check these out:
The BusinessWeek Slideshow
Welcome to the Weekend Web

Summary of his interview:

- there’s still a lot of room in search marketing. The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet, a more personalized and targetted market.
- mobile advertising is a larger business than PC-Web era in the long run, but not in the near future.
- the idea behind Google’s large investment in Wimax is to ensure open network and access, to prevent US carriers network close off the network.
- the web 2.0 architecture is not the money maker.
- online advertising hasn’t worked well with social network. There should be some improvements and new approach in online advertising on the social network.
- cloud computing is Google business model though it can’t be done right now for external usage

There’s a lot of issues being talked in the interview. Check out for the complete interview.

Interview Eric Schmidt

As its users grow, Twitter have some problems of downtime. And user get aware of this scalability problem of Twitter.

How can Twitter make money from such a great service but serious problem of performance? Brian Alvey make a joke on Twitter. He wrote in his post, that he finally found Twitter’s business model which is: put advertising on downtime page of Twitter.

Monetize your failure? He..he.. what brilliant idea…

Source article:
http://www.brianalvey.com/news/2008/05/25/twitters-business-model/

Spesifikasi:

* Price: $260 to $400
* CPU: Intel mobile CPU and graphics
* Display: 7 inches, 800 by 480
* Storage: 2GB to 4GB flash
* RAM: 256MB to 512MB
* Networking: Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
* Features: Built-in Webcam, MMC/SD card reader, three USB ports
* Percentage of name that is “e”: 60 percent

Spesifikasi:

* Price: Expected to cost $200 to manufacture
* CPU: Intel Celeron M CPU and 915GMS chip set with integrated graphics
* Display: 7 inches, 800 by 480
* Storage: 2GB flash
* RAM: 256MB
* Networking: Ethernet and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi
* Features: Built-in microphone and stereo speakers, optional wireless pen for note taking
* Approximate width of screen bezel: Rather a lot

Spesifikasi:

* Price: $200
* CPU: AMD Geode LX-700 with integrated graphics
* Display: 7.5 inches, 1200 by 900

* Storage: 1GB flash
* RAM: 256MB
* Networking: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, plus mesh networking

* Features: Built-in camera, speakers, game-pad controls, and microphone
* Number of green, antenna-looking things: Two
* Availability: Untuk sementara terbatas pada negara berkembang. Di Amerika Serikat dijual $400 dengan ide tiap pembelian menyumbang satu laptop.