Gerd Leonhard: TheEndOfControl

This blog is merging with MediaFuturist.com - please update your feeds!

Greetings everyone, I have decided to merge the End of Control blog (this one;) with my main blog at www.mediafuturist.com - it has simply become too hard to blog steadily on several sites (never mind what I do on Twitter and Youtube etc), so I am streamlining my efforts and would like all of you faithful RSS and email subscribers to follow me on to MediaFuturist. If you are looking for all the previous End of Control posts, they will all be under the End of Control tag at MediaFuturist.

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Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks | Gadget Lab from Wired.com

Image via CrunchBase

Madness!!! Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks | Gadget Lab from Wired.com. Talk about punishing the legal and paying user:  "Appearing to cave to Hollywood demands, Apple has quietly added a restrictive copyright protection mechanism to its new MacBooks that is preventing customers from watching movies on external displays. Apple has secretly included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) in the external display ports on the latest models of it MacBooks, released in the middle of October.."

Another customer insult, just like region coding - incredible!

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Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone (Wired.com) - but not for long I think

Good story here: Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone | Wired.com. The marvels:

"Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it....Allowing Flash — which is a development platform of its own — would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own. That means Flash would open a new door for application developers to get their software onto the iPhone: Just code them in Flash and put them on a web page. In so doing, Flash would divert business from the App Store, as well as enable publishers to distribute music, videos and movies that could compete with the iTunes Store"

Plausible explanation but of course there is no way Apple can let this continue in the long run - everyone wants Flash on their mobile devices. Zero chance for Apple to keep the lid on like this, imho. What do you think?

Picture via Flickr - well done Martin!

free music from mobygratis.com: less control > bigger audience

Moby is getting this right: film music | mobygratis.com. Way to go Moby!

                                                    "this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short...|"

Even Apple can't control it all ;) -iPhone app developers NDA dropped

It's been a while but I just ran across this snippet ;)

"A Shared Culture": new video explaining the concept of Creative Commons (and Sharing)

Cross-posted from my MediaFuturist blog

Found this today

Context: my own video on Sharing 2.0

The Future of Telecom - The End of Control

A customized version of a recent presentation I gave for a client (follow the slideshare link to download the 42 MB PDF)

The Future of Telecom and The End Of Control by Futurist Gerd Leonhard

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Official Google Reader Blog: The Guardian offers full-length RSS feeds now - great!

Link: Official Google Reader Blog: Reading The Guardian, full-text style.
"The Guardian just moved all of their RSS feeds from partial to full-text. They are the first major newspaper in the world to do so, and this is, well, great news..."  Openness wins.

New York Times Publisher on Whether There Will Be a Print Edition in 10 Years: "Walled Garden Era is Over"

Link: New York Times Publisher on Whether There Will Be a Print Edition in 10 Years: ‘We Can’t Care’... via FolioMag.com.

"Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors acting in effect like aggregators. Fundamentally we are addressing a common desire for comprehensiveness. The desire of people to find the news and information that they want from their most trusted sources. The era of the walled garden is over."

The Era of Walled Gardens is Over; Yahoo Prepares to Open Up - ReadWriteWeb

Link: The Era of Walled Gardens is Over; Yahoo Prepares to Open Up - ReadWriteWeb. Great example of what is happening everywhere. Gapingvoid comments