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The new DTVPal Plus is just like the TR-40, except it costs more and offers an enhanced tuner.

Now, Dish continues to muddy the waters with the DTVPal Plus, which is essentially exactly the same as both the TR-40 CRA and the DTVPal, except it includes a more sensitive tuner and costs $70. A DTV converter box with a stronger tuner might be worthwhile for some buyers, but we’re disappointed Dish hasn’t been more forthcoming about the company’s DTV plans. Buyers of the original DTVPal may feel slighted since they only had to wait a couple months to save $20 (on the TR-40) or have the option of buying a box with a stronger tuner. And while we’re on the the subject, what’s up with the TR-50, Dish?

Way back at CES 2008, Dish Network announced a DTV converter box called the TR-40 that was going to cost $40, include an electronic program guide and it seemed like it was going to be a simple, cheap choice for buyers looking to handle the upcoming analog-to-digital TV transition. Shortly afterward, the TR-40 became the DTVPal and the price went up to $60. Then the TR-40 CRA came out, which was exactly the same as the DTVPal, except it cost $40. And, as of now, you can buy both products from the DTVPal Web site, essentially giving you the option of donating an extra $20 to Dish Network for exactly the same product. If you’re confused, don’t worry–so are we.

The challenge, an annual GDC event hosted by GameLab CEO Eric Zimmerman, and a session that always plays to an energized, standing-room-only audience, traditionally pits three well-known designers against each other to come up with a concept for a game that meets some unusual criteria.

And while Brathwaite’s concept for an alternate-reality game called OneHundredDogs.com nearly carried the day, it was Meretzky’s marching bacteria that was judged the audience’s favorite.

All in all, the Game Design Challenge was a huge hit, as always. Afterward, I spoke with someone I know who had attended a session in an adjacent room. He said he was disappointed not to have been able to be in the Game Design Challenge room.

Never fear, though. You won’t have to worry that going into a GameStop might expose you to life-threatening creatures: the challenge is just to come up with the game’s concept, not to build an actual title.

And that’s because, he joked, you could sell the bacteria to the biotech industry.

“That’s one fat pile of loot just waiting for the right publisher to tap into it,” he said of Bac Attack. “The game that makes germ warfare available to the whole family. The game that puts the fun back in fungicide. The first massively micro-player game.”

In past years, themes have been games about love; games based on the poetry of Emily Dickinson; and games that could win the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s challenge, “The inter-species game,” was to create a fleshed-out idea for a game that could be played cooperatively by both humans and members of another species.

He added that there’s a secondary game design benefit from working with bacteria.

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So the goal, she said, was to build a player base in each city that would then require cooperation amongst all the players in that town.

The real benefit of the game, though, he added, is that as the bacteria multiply, there’s room for monetizing the bacteria beyond just selling the game itself.

Unfortunately for last year’s winner Pajitnov, his concept for Dolphin Ride, a game that would have people riding dolphins in a complex paintball battle, didn’t fare so well with the crowd.

With a somewhat sad face, he said that while listening to his own session, he kept hearing the raucous cheers from the design challenge, and that only made him more frustrated not to have been able to be there.

SAN FRANCISCO–Get ready for toxic microbes to come packaged in a video game SKU.

So, he explained, Bac Attack is centered around a new input/output device called the “Tray Station,” which projects microwaves onto a Petri dish.

As each new task is completed, players would move up the chain, getting invites from each succeeding numbered dog, all the while building a massive social network amongst the players.

“Because of the beauty of natural selection,” Meretzsky said, “the bacteria that survive next time level up.”

I loved this concept, but to be honest, I was a little confused by the end game. And I think others might have been too. That may ultimately have been why Brathwaite’s concept wasn’t the winner. Or, possibly, I was the only one confused, which wouldn’t be entirely surprising since most of the people in the room were game designers.

This would continue until players get to dog 92, which would start the third phase of the game, a “massively cooperative” phase.

The second phase would be “dog fifty-one,” she said.

Here, more tasks would be presented, and players would have to work together with those in other cities, all in the hopes of getting invites from a mysterious “Dog 52.”

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The Petri dish becomes the field of play, he explained, and the idea is that light projected onto it is intended to stimulate the bacteria.

The challenge featured the previous year’s winner, Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Leather Goddesses of Phobos designer Meretzky; and Brenda Brathwaite, designer of games like Playboy: The Mansion and the Wizardry series.

The game would feature dog and human challenges in 50 cities around the world. She wasn’t entirely clear on what those challenges would be, but the idea is that in each of the 50 cities, contestants would vie to represent that locale as one of the “50 dogs.”

Longtime and much-revered designer Steve Meretzsky’s Bac Attack, a game that pits man’s strategic ingenuity against the march of armies of bacteria, was the winner of Thursday’s Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference here.

But what led him to microbes was the idea that he could reach a potential market of “5 million million trillion bacteria…Now there’s a target demographic worth shooting for.”

‘Bac Attack’ tasks players with holding off a marauding army of microbes.

At the Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference, legendary designer Steve Meretzsky won with his concept for ‘Bac Attack,’ a ‘massively micro-player game.’

But that’s not because the crowd didn’t express its affection for the Tetris creator. He may have gotten the warmest welcome from the room. But his game was probably the least well-conceived and there was no favoritism.

He also considered doing something with squirrels, since “they like to collect things, and we like to collect things. So I thought I could train them to be Chinese gold farmers.”

“The Tray Station reads those moving bacteria colonies as armies on the march,” he said. “After an hour, either your defenses have held, or (the bacteria) have emerged victorious and you lose.”

For her part, Brathwaite’s second-place game design, OneHundredDogs.com, was what she described as “an interspecies Facebook (alternate-reality game).”

Meretzky began his presentation–each contestant takes 10 minutes or so to showcase his or her design–by discussing other possibilities for a game for both humans and animals. He said he considered something based on a classic English fox hunt–which comes with the possibility for in-game advertising.

Krushevo

“Ghatam,” by the Antenna Repairmen is a rather unique percussion record. The trio uses handmade ceramic percussion instruments designed by sculptor Stephen Freedman. The range of styles runs from frenetic to atmospheric. A Ghatam is literally a clay water jug used as a hand drum in South Indian music, and the tactile quality of the ceramic instruments, their varied textures and resonances makes for a unique and thoroughly mesmerizing sound experience.

MA Recordings is a one-man show. Todd Garfinkle is MA Recordings’ sole producer, recording and editing engineer. He also handles the label’s art direction, which is spectacular. MA is a trans-cultural jazz and classical label, and Garfinkle has been crisscrossing the globe recording music since 1988.

Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadic’s “Krushevo” is one of my favorite MA CDs. These two guitarists’ speed and virtuosity has been compared to John McLaughlin/Paco De Lucia’s duets, and the MA’s exquisite recording techniques put you inside the Macedonium Monument, in Krushevo, Macedonia (that’s an interior view of the Monument on the CD cover). The sound is utterly natural with a terrific sense of presence.

Garfinkle discovered Formatia Valea Mare playing in the Paris subway, and immediately made plans to record what would become “Departe De Casa.” The band members all come from the same town in Moldava, which is called, of course, Valea Mare. While in Romania, they played weddings, births and funerals. The Formatia Valea Mare project was recorded in one of France’s oldest and most beautiful Gothic Cathedrals, built in the 15th century. To me the large band’s music lives somewhere between gypsy and oddly enough, klezmer; most of the tunes are played at breakneck speed. It’s truly awesome music.

Departe De Casa

Ghatam

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Garfinkle always tries to record in large, acoustically interesting classical concert halls, churches and galleries. “MA” is a Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character which means “space” or “interval,” and Garfinkle believes these acoustic spaces are an intrinsic part of the not only the sound, but also the music. Capturing that sense of being there, in the same acoustic space as the musicians, is what makes MA Recordings so special (most conventional recordings add digital reverberation to simulate acoustic space). To achieve that goal Garfinkle’s uses a pair very high quality omnidirectional microphones and customized recording equipment, some of which was designed specifically for MA.

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The controversy over whether an internet service provider should charge for music is once again coming to a boil.

“We are in the earliest stages of what is a dynamic conversation about licensing opportunities in the global digital marketplace,” Griffin said in a statement issued by Warner Music on Friday. “It would be unfortunate if a creative and fruitful dialogue were sidetracked by a rush to judgment about what was simply my own illustrative example of one of many concepts I have in this space.”

He could be a digital-music genius for all I know. But Warner Music should have been smarter in broaching the subject of ISP fees than to allow Griffin to casually toss out ideas in print if–as he said in his e-mail–this is only one of “many concepts” the label is considering.

“There’s a lot of experimentation in the marketplace right now and that’s ultimately a good thing for the industry and for fans,” said Mitch Bainwol, chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America. “It’s important to note that all of the many ideas being floated out there involve voluntary payment systems, and not a government-imposed compulsory license. This would be the marketplace at work.”

We won’t know if the public will embrace an all-you-can-eat music service from the ISPs until the music industry presents a formal plan, one that will hopefully be coolly and carefully analyzed.

Pundits, music-industry insiders and members of the public are bashing Warner Music Group exec Jim Griffin after he acknowledged in a interview that he is working on a plan to collect music fees from consumers via their ISP bills.

The labels have finally embraced open MP3s and struck deals to offer ad-supported music (albeit only in a streaming version) with social networks Imeem and Last.fm.

But there’s plenty of prejudice and Griffin should know this. The reality is music fans are distrustful of record companies. They resent talk about charges being quietly tucked into their monthly bills.

I haven’t seen backlash like this since rocker Trent Reznor told me in an interview two months ago that an ISP tax might be a good idea. It didn’t matter to some that Reznor also made a seemingly conflicting statement in the same interview when he said perhaps music should be given away for free.

Bundling subscription fees into ISP bills on a voluntary basis may prove to be a bad idea. At this point, nothing is certain so shouldn’t every proposal at least be explored?

“All stakeholders stand to benefit from the kind of process that results from the willingness to consider a variety of raw concepts without prejudice,” Griffin said in the e-mail.

“It would be unfortunate if a creative and fruitful dialogue were sidetracked by a rush to judgment.” –Jim Griffin, Warner Music Group

This kind of off-the-cuff musing was enough to make Reznor a target of widespread criticism. Nobody seemed to care that the leader of the band, Nine Inch Nails, was a digital-music innovator and had long called on the record industry to improve its treatment of fans. What happens is that people hear the word “tax” and objective analysis goes out the window. People condemn and vilify. Out comes the torches and pitchforks.

Griffin could have hardly done more to stoke paranoia than to attempt to sell his plan with comments such as this: “Music will feel free,” Griffin told the magazine (the italics are mine).

Warner Music now has a firestorm on its hands and few are trying to assess the idea dispassionately. That’s too bad because the label, like its top three competitors; Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the EMI Group have appeared to be headed in the right direction of late. They’ve been experimenting with models and ideas they flat out rejected not long ago.

Nearly two weeks after our Q&A appeared, Reznor disavowed his statements about the ISP tax. Griffin now appears to be tip-toeing away from some of his comments.

•  The proposal calls for Yahoo! to sell its industry-leading algorithmic search business and its related strategic and valuable intellectual property portfolio for no incremental consideration; and

Significantly, the Board believes Microsoft and Mr. Icahn are overstating the value their search and restructuring proposal would deliver to Yahoo! stockholders and are substantially understating the risks. Yahoo! noted that a transaction that would separate the Company’s search and display businesses is an undertaking of great complexity. While the Board acknowledges that the current proposal contains a number of improvements over Microsoft’s earlier proposal, the Yahoo! Board’s conclusion that the current proposal is not in the best interests of stockholders is based on a number of factors, including:

1. Yahoo!’s existing business plus its recently signed commercial agreement with Google has superior financial value and less complexity and risk than the Microsoft/Icahn proposal.

2. The Microsoft/Icahn proposal would preclude a potential sale of all of Yahoo! for a full and fair price, including a control premium.

Yahoo!’s Board points out that a transaction to acquire the whole company would be much more straightforward and involve far less risk than the new proposal or any similar alternative. The Board believes a whole company transaction could be negotiated and executed prior to August 1st. In rejecting the Microsoft/Icahn proposal, Yahoo! not only repeated its offer to sell the entire Company to Microsoft for at least $33 per share, but also offered to negotiate an improved search only transaction. Microsoft rejected both offers.

The Board’s rejection of the proposal was based on a number of factors, including the following:

Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!’s search business by Microsoft.

•  Many of the components of the headline value that Mr. Icahn and Microsoft put forward, such as the spin-off of the Yahoo!’s Asian assets and the return of cash to stockholders, are steps that could be taken by Yahoo! on its own and the Board continues to evaluate these options.

Late Saturday, Yahoo issued a statement regarding a joint-proposal Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn released. Here is a copy of the statement:

Ironically, Carl Icahn, who jointly with Microsoft developed and presented this proposal, had previously urged Yahoo! not to sell its search business to Microsoft. Specifically, in an interview on CNBC’s Fast Money program, on June 4, 2008, Mr. Icahn said, “… it’s crazy for this company now to do this alternative deal and give the store away, because obviously, an alternative deal is a poison pill because once you’ve done an alternative deal and given the search to Microsoft, you don’t need Microsoft to buy you anymore. So, that would be a poison pill….”

Mr. Bostock continued, “After negotiating among themselves without the involvement of Yahoo!, Carl Icahn and Microsoft presented us with a ‘take it or leave it’ proposal under which we would be required to restructure the Company, hand over to Microsoft Yahoo!’s valuable search business and to Carl Icahn the rest of the Company, giving us less than 24 hours to respond. It is ludicrous to think that our Board could accept such a proposal. While this type of erratic and unpredictable behavior is consistent with what we have come to expect from Microsoft, we will not be bludgeoned into a transaction that is not in the best interests of our stockholders.”

•  The revenue guarantees suggested, which are conditional and subject to reduction, are well below the search revenue that the Company is expected to generate on its own and in association with its announced commercial agreement with Google. That agreement alone is estimated to generate $250 to $450 million of incremental cash flow for the first twelve months following implementation, while allowing Yahoo! to remain a principal in paid search;

Mr. Bostock concluded, “Microsoft and Mr. Icahn are trying to dismantle the Company and deliver our search business to Microsoft on terms that would be disadvantageous to Yahoo! stockholders. We are prepared to let our stockholders, not Microsoft and Carl Icahn, decide what is in their best interests and we look forward to the upcoming vote.”

•  Microsoft/Icahn’s proposed Traffic Acquisition Costs rates are below market;

Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo! said, “This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo!’s stockholders in mind. Clearly, Microsoft, having failed to advance in search, is aligning with the short-term objectives of Mr. Icahn to coerce Yahoo! into selling its core strategic search assets on terms that are highly advantageous to Microsoft, but disadvantageous to Yahoo! stockholders. Yahoo’s Board of Directors will not allow that to happen. Yahoo!’s Board remains open to any transaction that delivers full value to our stockholders - we just do not believe such a transaction should be dictated by Microsoft and a single short-term investor.”

Mr. Bostock also noted that Microsoft’s position that it would not deal with, or otherwise engage with, Yahoo!’s management to reach agreement on this proposal or to implement it, is completely absurd and irresponsible given the complexity of the deal - one that requires the removal of half of Yahoo!’s business from Yahoo! and then the integration of it into Microsoft.

3. The major component of the overall value per share asserted by Microsoft/Icahn would be in Yahoo!’s remaining non-search businesses which would be overseen by Mr. Icahn’s slate of directors, which has virtually no working knowledge of Yahoo!’s businesses.

•  The success of the remaining Company is critically dependent on Microsoft’s ability to effectively monetize search;

4. The Microsoft/Icahn proposal would require the immediate replacement of the current Board and removal of the top management team at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! Board believes these moves would destabilize Yahoo! for the up to the one year it would take to gain regulatory approval for this deal.

I spend most of my day in email or in my browser. I only use Microsoft Office when I absolutely must. It’s not that I don’t like Office - it’s fine. But this isn’t how I work anymore. I work in messaging. IBM, according to the article above, sees collaboration as something you do around fixed assets like documents. This is one way to collaborate, but it’s not the way that most of us think about collaboration.

IBM has been exceptionally active in various open-source projects. Why not commit an army of developers to Mozilla to improve Thunderbird? Make Mozilla’s Thunderbird the “standard” platform upon which all these other IBM collaborative programs run….This is bread-and-butter strategy for IBM (witness Linux and Apache). It should do the same with Mozilla.

A much better route would be to a) extend from
Microsoft Office (though this is fraught with problems because Microsoft controls the platform) or b) shift the battle to new terrain that Microsoft doesn’t own, as Google has.

Yahoo!, meanwhile, has a massive opportunity with Zimbra. Email should be the center of the new enterprise software universe. Research in Motion apparently gets this. Yahoo! could become the hub for enterprise software, newly defined. Zimbra is the key to that strategy, but would probably need to open up further (as in source) in order to become a full community standard.

Anyway, IBM’s strategy of giving away Symphony in order to provide a platform upon which to build is not going to work. Microsoft Office is too well-entrenched. The way to undermine Microsoft is through the web (social networking, web services, etc.) and through email.

The gesture is intended to take away money from Microsoft - probably a losing cause going head-to-head on Microsoft’s territory - but also to provide a platform upon which to sell IBM’s collaboration software. This second strategy has a better chance of success, but would be much better off it didn’t first require enterprises to adopt Lotus Symphony because, quite frankly, they won’t.

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IBM is now giving away its Lotus Symphony product for free. Not “free” as in open source, but rather as in “Please take since people won’t pay for it,” as only a few hundred thousand downloads have been registered since September 2007.

Rather, for most of us, collaboration is an extension of communication.

If I were a betting man, I’d lay my money on email as the disruptive platform that IBM should build upon, and I don’t mean it’s widely used by hugely clunky Domino/Lotus Notes combo. I mean Zimbra or Mozilla’s new email push.

After Monday’s forecast in which he foretold Apple moving 45 million iPhones during 2009, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is back with another aggressive estimate.

Shipments of Macs, like this new MacBook Pro, were up 60 percent in February, according to NPD.

Munster also gathered data from Dell.com, HP.com, Lenovo.com, and more and concluded that though Macs are often knocked for being outrageously expensive compared with their Windows-running counterparts, the average Apple desktop is 16 percent pricier and notebooks 9 percent more expensive.

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These are just estimates, but it does appear Apple is at least off to an impressive start this year. NPD, which tracks retail sales only, also found evidence of notable growth for Apple’s computer business in the month of February. NPD estimated that overall
Mac shipments were up 60 percent, compared with the rest of the PC industry, which grew at a 9 percent clip.

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Web 2.0 evangelist Tim O'Reilly addresses the crowd at the Web 2.0 Expo.

The paradox is that applications built on open, decentralized networks are leading to new concentrations of power (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.), he said. He advocated building in an interoperability layer to reduce the harmful effects of having a few companies with enormous power and leverage.

“The Internet is becoming the global platform for everything,” he said, and it will make everyone in the world smarter. “It’s an amazing revolution in human augmentation akin to literacy or the formation of cities,” he continued. “It’s a huge change in the way the world works.”

We are entering the world of ambient computing, he proclaimed, as everything is wired into the Internet. “We are in a soup of computing. Web 2.0 is all around us,” O’Reilly said. He got nods from the crowd of the converted, who were busy Twittering, Facebooking, blogging, and SMSing, practicing continuous partial attention.

From the high-level view of the Internet revolution year, O’Reilly telescoped down to the exhibit floor, which is populated by more enterprise players, such as IBM and Oracle, than the previous year. It’s a sign that Web 2.0, with technologies such as wikis, blogs, tags, social networks, and collective intelligence, is maturing.

However, the maturing of Web 2.0 and cloud computing, the move to the Internet as a platform, has problems, O’Reilly noted. The market values centralization and consolidation. It values big winners who can dominate a market. O’Reilly cautioned that this situation could lead us back to the world of large, centralized players like Oracle and Microsoft, which could stifle innovation and openness.

SAN FRANCISCO–Tim O’Reilly kicked off the keynote sessions at the Web 2.0 Expo here, pacing the stage and evangelizing the power of the Internet.

There is real money to be made by developing Web 2.0 products for enterprises. Harnessing collective intelligence can lead to the promised land of profits. (O’Reilly’s company recently started an enterprise consulting practice to take advantage of the trend, and he also shamelessly touted Wesabe, one of his investments, in his remarks.)

So, the Internet is important and revolutionary, and harvesting collective intelligence is core to Web 2.0 and a way to make more money, according to the pied piper of Web 2.0.