Yme Bosma’sPanbo.com , the marine electronics and communication weblog , has quickly become a favorite here at Gizmodo , with its piercing focal point and incisive writing . We ’re glad that Yme took the time to participate in the first in a series of ‘ Gadget Weblog Spotlights ’ that we ’ll be running throughout the next few hebdomad . Our hope is to draw your attention to some of the great gismo reporting that ’s being done out on the web .
Give us a quick runnel down about you , your weblog , and what it was that made you require to start your own ?
I ’m a 29 - year old scheme consultant atLost Boys , Europe ’s largest webdesign federal agency , base in Amsterdam , The Netherlands . I started blogging about 2 years ago as a way of documenting and disseminating everything I found interesting ( professionally and personally ) , primarily on the field of the mobile internet , ebusiness , consumer electronics and home automation . Just recently I detect that there was no blog ( or website for that matter ) focusing on these areas in the context of sailing and boating , another rage of mine . Since convergence of PC technology , internet and maritime electronics / applications is happen at a fast pace , I started a blog on this issue , which isPanbo.com .
What do you cerebrate it is that makes your weblog brook out ?
fundamentally , there ’s no other website focusing on the subject of nautical gadget ( electronics & communications ) . The boating industriousness is a 30 billion dollar business in the US alone , and electronics are an of import segment of it . So I ’m creating a primal breaker point for everything happening in this space , since ( online ) publishing of information on these topics has been very fragmented until now . base on the feedback I received , and the statistics , since I started this specific web log 4 weeks ago , I cogitate it ’s fair to say that www.panbo.com is filling a blank berth .
Do you have a target audience for your site ?
Yes , sort of . It ’s the marine electronics industriousness on the one deal , and ‘ boaters ’ on the other hand . I ’m indite about thing that are sometimes only relevant to possessor of a 20 ft sailboat , and at other time it ’s just the ones that go a 200 foot megayacht that will be set off by an item …
What was the first gadget that really get your aid ?
I think that must have been my first cellular phone , a bulky Nokia 1610 that I bought in 1996 . Since then I ’ve been play around with a lot of the newest hardware and software , not just cellphone .
What are your pet types of gizmo ?
Everything that allows me to be and ‘ sense ’ connect . And gadgets that permit me document and structure my thoughts .
What ’s the worst gismo you ’ve ever seen ?
Well , the thing that ’s irritate me most at the instant ( besides not being capable to get off emails from my Nokia … ) is the EPG on my fix - top box . It ’s such a majuscule example of not understanding how people ( well , at least myself ) want to watch TV and be guided through TV - listings . UPC , fix this ! And we can help you if you want us to …
What ’s the one affair you wish you could learn the existence ’s gadget makers ?
Through my work I roll in the hay just how enormously of import usability is for making a full concept work with normal citizenry in a real world surroundings . It ’s an art ( and a science ) that most gadget manufacturing business but do not sympathize .
Have you ever had a contraption shift your life sentence ?
Yep , not often , but my first Wi - Fi router at home , an XRouter Aero WSR-5000 , has really change they way I know home entertainment , the way I work , when I work , and how often I work … .
What ’s in your gadget bag , Yme ?
Nothing special really . An 18 - calendar month Nokia 7650 which is fall aside , since I ’m look for the first megapixel camera phone to be put out because I require better timbre characterisation on my personal photoblog , www.yme.nl . what is more , I ’m still carrying around a Toshiba laptop , while I ’m expect for my new HP Centrino laptop to be delivered . Got a two twelvemonth older TDK Bluetooth adapter that goes with the Toshiba . And for the sleep a lot of cabling , adapters and web cards in my bag to connect me to the internet anywhere , and to audio and picture equipment wherever I am … The bag itself is just a unmingled and simple Dell laptop bagful which I ca n’t throw off since I do n’t experience like emptying it …
Read – Panbo.com
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