May, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2007

Thank you so much to all who turned out for the first NewTeeVee Pier Screenings last night! I’ll recap for those who were not there, though I must admit I didn’t once take out my reporter’s notebook, so this is all from memory. First, we … Read More »

This morning I had the great pleasure to appear on a podcast with an old mate from the U.K., Ian Dixon. Ian, James and I all worked together in our … Read More »

 
 

What’s a Friday without a critical update to your precious Palm? Treo 680 owners on the new AT&T or old Cingular network, depending on how you see it, can grab … Read More »

Mobile device users are dancing with joy since Google’s web-based Calendar app is now available for mobile devices. Right through your browser is a listing of your … Read More »

I spend a lot of time in coffee shops, usually Starbucks but sometimes other shops.  It’s safe to say I might visit some coffee shop 4 or 5 … Read More »

*I’m finding that funding “matchmakers” can sometimes turn into troublemakers. I need advice for how to deal with a recurring problem with financing entanglements.* My startup is in the process of raising our 2nd round of financing. During our seed funding round a situation occurred where someone … Read More »

Quick shout out to fellow Microsoft Tablet PC MVP Marc Orchant. He clearly has too much free time on his hands since he’s added another blog to his repertoire! It must be the Tablet PC platform that makes him so productive. Hop on over to his … Read More »

Friday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video: CBS Partners with Social Networks, Community Sites, will allow content to be embedded, shared across a wide range of platforms (here’s the press release list: new deals with Automattic, Clearspring, DAVE Networks, Goowy Media, … Read More »

Server upgrades and online video bill of rights

As you might have guessed by now, our server upgrade is complete. We are now using Wordpress.com’s premium service and are thrilled to be their infrastructure.  They call it VIP hosting – we call it sleep at night. Big shout out to Barry and … Read More »

10‭ ‬Ways to Be Productive with Backpack

‬37signals‭’ ‬online organizer tool,‭ ‬‬Backpack ‬has been a favorite with GTD geeks and web workers for some time now.‭ ‬It’s sleek,‭ ‬it’s cool,‭ ‬it’s got all kinds of Ajaxy goodness.‭ ‬And it can be used in many different ways to make you more productive.‭ ‬There are … Read More »

I spent the last hour hunched over my keyboard trying, desperately trying, to somehow free associate a connection between the topics of boobs, misheard lyrics, and script selling. I failed. Blame the boobs. So, instead of a cohesive post that pleases with its narrative symmetry, … Read More »

Facebook Finally Adds Video

Alongside welcoming a raft of third-part application builders today, Facebook announced its own video application. Users can upload and record videos directly to their profiles and send them as messages to friends. They will also be able to upload video directly from their mobile … Read More »

More Must Reads

There is a good deal of buzz in the tech-news world about a $3.9 million investment that Google has made in a company called 23andMe, a startup in hiring mode with dreams of “helping consumers understand and browse their genome”. $3.9 million? What’s the big deal … Read More »

Is Amp’d Mobile gearing up for a change of the guard? Valleywag prints a rumor that the CEO and founder of the high-spending youth-oriented MVNO, Peter Adderton, has left the company. We heard this rumor a few weeks ago and asked Amp’d's PR team directly … Read More »

It shouldn’t come as a surprise: Sean Parker, co-founder of Project Agape is launching a limited edition version of his activist tool on Facebook, the last start-up he was affiliated with as founding president. The new tool is called, Causes for Facebook, and is seamlessly … Read More »

Mark Zuckerberg is channeling Steve Jobs here at Facebook’s big launch day. A giggle just went through crowd at his presentation of the three key elements of his announcement, complete with choreographed hand gestures and reiteration: “deep integration, mass distribution, and new opportunity.” Zuckerberg already handled a … Read More »

SnapStream emailed to point up their TV Viewers Bill of Rights, which lays out a number of guidelines that networks would be well suited to follow if they want to hold on to their audience. Television is no longer the only, or even best, … Read More »

Although Microsoft has continued to support the development of Office on the Mac platform, many of its other Mac offerings have been left for dead, including Internet Explorer, Virtual PC and Windows Media Player. But according to a blog post by a … Read More »

What’s the ROI on marketing in Second Life? After attacking the topic from a couple directions (most SL users seem receptive, but so far, are largely unimpressed with existing attempts), we finally have some concrete numbers to work with, at least on the … Read More »

When technology analyst group Gartner recently asserted that “80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 companies) will have a ‘second life’, but not necessarily in Second Life” by 2011, a lot of people jumped the gun and assumed 8 out of 10 … Read More »

What we have here is a failure to communicate. We’ve talked about how you can work with your friends. What happens when your colleague is someone you just don’t like? Maybe you have very different personalities or work styles. Maybe the project is falling behind because … Read More »

So you know the warm and fuzzy feeling you get all over when you’re in the Apple Store to actually make that Mac purchase? It’s as if nothing could bring you down from that geek-high. Then you get the Best Buy style protection plan … Read More »

Hope you remember that thin and tres-chic concept notebook that Intel touted at their IDF last month. According to Business Week, the Intel codenamed "Metro" could see the … Read More »

Since Steve Jobs announced the switch to Intel nearly two years ago, it’s been continually rumored that Macs would gain the ability to run Windows applications natively within OS X. And with Jobs set to reveal Leopard’s “secret features” at June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, … Read More »

Facebook’s platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we’ve come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top … Read More »

10 Ways to Power Up Your Firefox Search: Make your browser search better by learning its native capabilities, customizing it for your needs, and installing extensions tailored to how you work. Continue reading. Meet Your Truman Show, Web Talent Agent: … Read More »

Starbucks started selling a CD of salsa music a while back and now it seems like every time I go into any Starbucks all I hear is loud salsa music.  I can’t get away from it and it’s driving me nuts.  There’s nothing wrong with salsa … Read More »

Sure, every survey comes laced with agenda, so here’s a whole group of them so you can be efficient about remembering not to suspend your disbelief. The headlines: a bunch of people watch online video, internet advertising is up, broadcast television advertising is down, and TV … Read More »

The ability for content providers to specify access and prices for consumers to make copies of their HD-DVD and BluRay movies should arrive by the holiday season, according to a report from Ars Technica following up to statements made by MPAA head Dan Glickman. … Read More »

The IPEVO TRIO reminds me of a vintage handheld CB radio without the antenna but updated for today’s times. The TRIO is a wired USB Skype handset … Read More »

One of the big challenges of running a web site has always been figuring out how successful it is. For years, most of us did this by analyzing the information in web server logs using one of many statistical packages on the market. More recently, Read More »

Who owns the loyalty of the wireless customer, the carrier or the handset maker? As Vodafone launches branded handsets, handset makers open stores, and the iPhone changes the game, increasingly the two sides that together control the mobile industry, are starting to push at the … Read More »

Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video: Turner Classic to Launch ‘Classic’ Films Portal, with shorts, clips and trailers. (Reuters/Hollywood Reporter) Charter Offers Home-Networking Help, for a $9.99 per month fee to its cable and broadband subscribers. (Light Reading) NCAA Football … Read More »

In our house, the most under-used feature of iTunes is the rating system. We’ve got three iPods in the house and iTunes installed on at least four computers, yet we never … Read More »

Jangl, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based start-up that launched last year as an anonymous calling service, is getting ambitious, and has launched a new service, which on the face of it might indicate a desire to cash in on the social networking hype, but in reality … Read More »

  Over at Giveaway of the Day today is a nice-looking productivity application called FusionDesk. FusionDesk is currently available in a free Starter Edition and a $90 Professional … Read More »

Jangl founder “Michael Cerda”:http://cerdafied.typepad.com/about.html recently posted “this terrific piece”:http://cerdafied.typepad.com/cerdafied_voip_mobile_web/2007/05/gamechanging_pr_1.html on his site “Cerdafied”:http://cerdafied.typepad.com/ about the process he and co-founder Ben Dean employed to develop a “game changing” new feature for their popular phone service “Jangl”:http://jangl.com/JanglWeb/Default.aspx. (It includes tequilla shots in the board room.) Cerda’s essay has … Read More »

“As a frustrated user of Comcast’s Soviet-era on-screen navigation, I can only cheer on any competitive offering, in the hope that all boats will rise,” Paul Kapustka, deftly using deliciously cruel words, sums up the rage and feelings of many of the cable company customers. But … Read More »

I live in OneNote 24/7 on my Tablet PC.  It’s the first program I fire up each morning, that’s in the event I even closed it the night before.  It’s the single biggest thing missing from the Mac experience and I don’t lament every single day … Read More »

Real estate search engine Trulia has raised a $10 million Series C round of funding from Sequoia Capital and previous backers Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co, bringing it to a total of $17.7 million raised. Trulia’s information-rich site recently came out of beta. … Read More »

If you want to be a master web worker, you’ve got to know how to find what you want online. Make your browser search better by learning its native capabilities, customizing it for your needs, and installing extensions tailored to how you work. 1. Learn basic Location … Read More »

In case some of you have been wondering why I have been slacking off, there are two reasons: a nasty migraine that just doesn’t seem to go away. And the second reason is not as tasteless. I have rediscovered the joys of cooking, and have been … Read More »

Daryl D of Blogcritics has tried a lot of Tablet PCs and didn’t find one he liked.  His conclusion is that pen and paper is better than Tablet PCs because it works better.  His article chronicles the experiences that led to this conclusion and while … Read More »

Personal video sharing will have another home at the soon-to-launch startup Your Truman Show. The Italian-owned site recently opened a San Francisco office for marketing and market research, and invited NewTeeVee over for a visit. The Truman Show, isn’t that a trademarked movie? Well, yes, … Read More »

What’s the ROI on marketing in Second Life? After attacking the topic from a couple directions (most SL users seem receptive, but so far, are largely unimpressed with existing attempts), we finally have some concrete numbers to work with, at least on the … Read More »

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