Looks like my prediction that the masterful mashup known as the 7-minute Sopranos would face a quick pulldown from YouTube was way off the mark — since the video actually seems to be the work of HBO insiders. As sniffed out by the … Read More »
Archive for April 2007
Slow news afternoons are made for browsing forums; that’s where I’ve been for a bit today. Specifically, I was nosing about the Skype forums since I’m such a … Read More »
Who really likes using Microsoft Word to collaborate on documents? While Word has powerful built-in collaboration features, after a few rounds of edits the documents become unwieldy to read. Reviewers send an email explaining why they made a certain change, along with comments made inline in … Read More »
Jon Westfall of Pocket PC Thoughts has an intriguing review of Innobec’s SideWindow product for Windows Mobile devices. Essentially, you can utilize your handheld as a … Read More »
Piggybacking on the news of a conviction of a file sharer by the Department of Justice, SafeMedia put out a press release touting its product Clouseau “Cracks the Code to Destroy P2P Piracy.” O rly? It does not infringe on user’s privacy, while eradicating … Read More »
Amazon’s eBook reader device, the "Kindle" as it’s known to some, is getting some review time over the UK. The preliminary verdict is promising when compared to the screen quality of … Read More »
I’ve got a lot of friends who have recently purchased their first Macs. I’m always more than happy to help them get up and running and answer questions whenever they have them – I mean, I do that here for you people and I don’t … Read More »
Experian Group announced today it had bought online metrics provider Hitwise for $240 million in cash. Hitwise has done an exemplary job of packaging and marketing analytics by hooking them onto relevant happenings on the web. Read More »
AT&T has started offering their U-verse (video) users ability to remotely schedule program recordings, over the mobile and the web, according to a company press release. Typically, our response to this would have been like any TiVo user – yawn! But then we say … Read More »
The most important post-crime aspect of the Virginia Tech tragedy is that Cho Seung-Hei couldn’t conceive of the massacre without justifying it through media. In the videos Cho mailed to NBC, he repeatedly refers to himself in the past tense. He has a meta-cognitive view of … Read More »
There’s a culture clash inside office buildings where workers from the busyness economy sit in cubicles next to workers from the burst economy — web workers. Yes, that’s right: even if you work as a corporate employee in an office building, you may still be … Read More »
Ah, that’s OK, I don’t have a Mazda anyway and I’m selling the house so I can move to Korea for a Q1P Ultra … Read More »