Raju vegesna’s Blog

Have you been observing the prices of wireless devices? If you are, you should have noticed that they came down drastically in unbeleivable pace.

When I first bought my first Access Point, I had to pay around $160 for 802.11B. This was probably more than a year back. Looking at the prices of 802.11B&G access points now, you can get one for $20. I tried this $20 AP and it works perfectly fine.

Now at this rate, I dont even see the need for other standards like BlueTooth or ZigBee. They were initially started as a cheaper chips, but WiFi itself is getting there and with its reach, especially in the consumer market, it doesnt make much sense to embrace techologies like BlueTooth.A day where our Fridge, Oven, fan, light etc connected through WiFi is not very far.

When the prices are coming down at the low end, I dont understand how the high-end vendors like Cisco are surviving pricing the same APs for $600 etc.

Raju

I have never been a big fan of books or documents, especially when they are pure text-only based. Ofcourse, I never read long documents or books, unless it has some images that depict the message that is being conveyed. A rightly presented image always conveyes better compared to pages of text.

Obviously, an image is equal to 1000 words and an image with audio is equal to 100K words and an animation with audio and video is equal to 100,00K words.

Now, with internet and all other resources, authors can create ebooks which can really incorporate audio and video into books and release it over the internet. There is no better place than internet to reach a wider audience.

Now, coming to the future of eBook, here is what I see as the future of the eBook.

Vendors like Microsoft, Adobe etc came up with some eBook readers for reading electronic version of documents and books. But I dont think they going a long way. I see an eBook having text, audio video etc. Apart from this, the user should be able to change the contents of the book, edit it and forward it as his version to his friends or even save it for later use.

It it takes a person 10 days to read a textual book, if we can include audio and video and other animations etc, he can get the same concepts in 10 hours. When we have the technology, why waste days to read a book. The problem with this approach I see is, not authors can create such books. The key here is, making it easy for authors to create eBooks. There should be a software which will do this.

I dont know what Microsoft and Adobe are working on in this area, but I should say that Macromedia is certainly ahead of the game here. With Flash they have a better opportunity to create such stuff easily.

Anyway, lets wait and see where this eBook market will go….

Raju

trying to read a book and ended up throwing it aside because it is text only, and jumped onto blogs[/i]

I see a very good relation/use between concepts cartoons and images. This is the case in general incuding the technology industry. I think cartoons are kind of taken as informal media of communication. Images are often used by companies to communicate the concept (compared to cartoons). In most cases, you wont find the right image that conveys your concept.

Companies are more formal in their communication. Lets take a simple example. Let us say that a company is trying to prove value of its product offering compared to in-house development of its customer. The general way they try to prove this is by providing more formal documents on the value adds they provide etc.

I hardly have seen any of these value adds conveyed in the form of images or cartoons. I beleive it should be done in this informal internet world. I think people will appreciate the message that is conveyed and not the way it is conveyed through.

Attached is a sample cartoon I created on how to convey a value add of a product compared to customer’s in house development.

A cartoon or an image can convey the story in a more powerful way compared to multiple lines of text which often goes unread.

Even in case of presentations, obviously, the presenter has something to say in each and every slide. In this case, I think there should be an image/cartoon that sums up the concet/message that the presenter is trying to convey. I think this will convey better message than just using text.But I agree, not all presenters are cartoonists. So they tend to use images which is fine as long as the message/concept is conveyed.

Raju

Writing this on a rainy Virginia sunday afternoon trying to build a presentation and include some images/cartoons to it