I’m definitely no Thomas Hawk, but I did like this scene from my deck last night. While having an after-dinner coffee, the sunset gave these clouds a nice hue and provided… Read More »
Archive for April 2007
The MacBook Pro has become (nearly) firmly attached to my desktop where it is a powerhouse notebook that has taken over all of my heavy lifting computationally. … Read More »
Free, online video from WGBH’s popular Frontline series on PBS is available on its site, and there’s even an RSS feed to push announcements of new installments. The problem? The feed links back to an HTML page for the show, not a… Read More »
If you have a young niece or daughter, you’ve almost certainly seen her puttering with Zwinky, the pop-eyed cartoon avatar-based social network– sort of a cutesy MySpace for kids, run from a browser toolbar interface. Techcrunch just reported that InteractiveCorp, the company behind Zwinky,… Read More »
Carphone Warehouse, UK-based mobile phone retail chain, which has made (and lost some of its) name as Talk Talk, a free broadband provider, in the UK is looking to cross the pond and come to the US, to open…. a chain of cell phone stores.… Read More »
A few weeks after Google made an astonishing $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick, The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo will acquire the remaining 80% of New York-based Right Media, an online ad-exchange company, backed by Redpoint Ventures, for about $680 million. Yahoo… Read More »
The debate over the value of advertising in the metaverse just got a lot more interesting. Earlier this month, I noted a survey which suggested that real world marketing in Second Life wasn’t working. That still seems largely true, but now a new study… Read More »
The debate over the value of advertising in the metaverse just got a lot more interesting. Earlier this month, I noted a survey which suggested that real world marketing in Second Life wasn’t working. That still seems largely true, but now a new study… Read More »
You either love it or you hate it. The New Yahoo Mail that is. Check out this interesting story and interesting observations about what went wrong (and right) from a User Experience standpoint with the new Yahoo Mail. Read More »
Every time we mention broadband penetration as a metric, a raging debate breaks out amongst our readers. Last week, when OCED data showed that US had slipped in broadband penetration rankings, similar discourse took place. While we all appreciate that broadband is crucial for global… Read More »
Vudu, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based start-up is getting a lot of buzz this morning, thanks to a rather extensive article in the New York Times. Their set-top box is supposed to make downloading and watching movies a pleasurable experience, and do an end run around… Read More »
Vudu, a two year old Santa Clara, Calif.-based start-up has launched a new kind of set-top box that will allow you to download and watch movies, and promises a better experience than, say, the Comcast video on demand. It utilizes P2P technology and broadband to… Read More »
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