Listening to Marco Arment, John Gruber, Horace Dediu & al. is just great. But hearing them live is even better. I did almost never get the change. You never knew exactly when Dan Benjamin got the show starting. But the shows I’ve listened to live have been great.

I don’t know why, but live radio make me more alert and concentrated. Anyway, a good service has just gotten better!

The 5by5 app notifies you when a show is about to begin, and links to twitter.

Take the opportunity to be able to pay 3 small dollars to Dan Benjamin and his hosts for a wonderful radio experience! Get the app here!

An Eric Jackson Forbes article shows how incredible fast the innovation in tech is running:

We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas.  They’ll be around forever. Yet, with the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think both might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years.  Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone.

Just remember how slow Facebook was to make an iPad app. Why do they have to fulfill the Innovators dilemma?

The bottom line is that the next 5 – 8 years could be incredibly dynamic.  It’s possible that both Google and Facebook could be shells of their current selves – or gone entirely. 

They will have all the money in the world to try and adapt to the shift to mobile but history suggests they won’t be able to successfully do it.  I often hear Google bulls point to the market share of Android or Eric Schmidt’s hypothesis that Google could one day charge all Android subscribers $10 a month for value-added services as proof of future profits.  Yet, where are all the great social success stories by Web 1.0 companies?  I imagine we’ll see as many great examples of social companies jumping horses mid-race to become great mobile companies. 

It’s a lot easier to start asking Siri for information instead of typing search terms into a box compared to thousands of enterprises ceasing to upgrade to the next version of Windows.  Google’s 76% market share.  Facebook’s 900 million monthly users.  They just aren’t as sticky as they seem. 

∑ – If companies hasn’t got the mobile trend now, it’s likely they don’t get it before it’s to late.

  

Store amerikanske universiteter som Harvard og MIT har lært av Kahn Academy og Udacity og skal nå tilby video fra forelesninger.

Det er mange som advarer mot disse endringene, men Stanford viser til nye undersøkelser som viser at studentene gjør det mye bedre med deres nye opplegg:

Skeptical readers may argue that Khan Academy can’t compete with lectures from the world’s great thinkers. In response, Prober and Heath point to a recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).

∑ – Høyere undervisning synes ideell for data-assistert undervisning. Det gjenstår imidlertid å gjøre elevene skikket til å ta imot et slikt tilbud.

Steve Gillmor don’t posts every day, but he did post on Sunday, and I suspect he didn’t find another great article on disruption, and created one himself.

First, I was a bit surprised; I thought GDrive was a bit me-too. That Google was trying to just match iCloud, and not worth mentioning at all. And it wasn’t easy to find it either. I had to go to my settings in Google Docs to find that I had my 5 Gigs of GDrive.

Reading the article again, Gillmor seems to look at GDrive as a big bucket of links to my documents, and with ability and tools to both show and edit them. He sees this as the death of both filesystem and documents, and is quite happy with that:

In other words, the list of things I don’t care about just got longer. I don’t care about the file name, because it is now wrapped in a container that includes the services I can access in addition to the information itself. I don’t care about the metadata, not the names of the people who have access to it or the sharing model that controls that, because it’s dynamic and subject to change as the universe continues to expand or contract or whatever. And I don’t care about the abstraction of the document, the parent object, because all I want to know is what this is about, not how it got here or where it’s going next.

[GDrive differ from iCloud in that you can share and even make the files public.]

It seems Steve has a hell of problems with his editorials. He even mails documents to himself in order to get access to them on his iPad. [It reminds me on how difficult writing documents was before Byword got the revised iCloud connection.] He expects apps to help us out:

Right now there are interchange issues, and business issues where Apple wants me to stay in iCloud and Google in Gdrive and Microsoft in whatever Mesh is now called. But I don’t care about any of that, and apps will appear that erase those distinctions, at least from my awareness. I will pay for the value of not knowing. Lots of us will.