Given YouTube’s control of the snack-video market, it is no surprise that attention is shifting to long-form, professionally produced content. Joost, Babelgum and scores of others are chasing this market, betting that MTV Summer Break might make compelling viewing on your PC. The folks at Jaman … Read More »
Archive for June 2007
I suppose it makes sense for Fujitsu to have their own portable hard drive solutions since they manufacture actual drives. Why let Iomega and … Read More »
So for everyone who’s ever complained about the .Mac service, someone is finally trying to do something about it. The notMac Challenge is offering up a choice bounty (at least $10k!) for anyone who can develop a .Mac alternative that’s as easy to use … Read More »
An anonymous blog entry, “Life at Google – the Microsoftie Perspective,” has been widely linked in developer circles in recent days. It purports to be a report by a Microsoft manager of an interview with an ex-Google employee, comparing the working environment at those two … Read More »
I know you should never start a blog post with a cliche, but the first time I saw an AppleGeeks comic it was love at first sight. Any comic with clever satires, lovable characters, and amazing artwork is bound to turn some heads. … Read More »
Given YouTube’s control of the snack-video market, it is no surprise that attention is shifting to long form, professionally produced content. Joost, Babelgum and scores of others are chasing this market, betting that MTV Summer Break might make compelling viewing on your PC. One company that often … Read More »
Arootz Speeds Video Delivery; this is a startup that loads up the most popular video content on harddrives in homes at off-peak times, easing quality and time constraints of on-demand streaming. We’d talked to them a bit but hadn’t written; BusinessWeek does a profile today. (
Undoubtedly, everyone’s closed a file that hadn’t yet been saved, and gotten the dialog box asking if you’d like to save the file before closing and losing its contents. In most cases this is probably a nice reminder, but there are enough occasions where I … Read More »
_James generously adapted this from his “original blog post_”:http://james.hotornot.com/2007/06/reinventing-hotornot-part-i.html For the first six years of its life, my startup, “HOTorNOT”:http://www.hotornot.com/, had pretty much been steady along the same course: A picture rating site with a not-so-serious dating application built on top that generated healthy amounts of cash … Read More »
The wannabe YouTube killer that fancies itself as a billion dollar company, thanks to reputation of its backers NBC and News Corp., a press conference, and lot of talk, has a new CEO. So what, if it doesn’t have a name… Still! Jason Kilar, a … Read More »
NewCo, the coming joint video venture between News Corp and NBC Universal, is keeping itself in the news, though it has yet to put out a product. The company said today in an emailed press release it will be led by Jason Kilar, an executive at … Read More »
Just a quick update since I’m moving slowly this morning; the long drive back from NYC last night was made longer due to torrential rain and storms. … Read More »
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