I apologize to all of you about writing so rarely during the last couple weeks, but I’ve been spending crazy amounts of time working on our NewTeeVee Live conference, to be held November 14 in San Francisco. Today we posted our tentative schedule for … Read More »
Archive for October 12, 2007
Google has become so dominant among search engines that many web workers use it at the exclusion of all other engines. The web is actually loaded with unusual types of search engines, and if you get a feel for what some of the offbeat ones do, … Read More »
Have you ever wondered why the “secret questions” on everything from your bank account to email account all have a certain bland quality to them? Where were you born? What was your first school? Bo-ring. We think it’s time for question writers to get a creative … Read More »
Beautiful day, sitting in the retreat listening to James with wireless headphones and enjoying the day. Watching squirrels drink from the pool and cardinals run around on the ground. All while checking RSS feeds. Read More »
They’re on the cover of both this month’s National Geographic and Wired. They were mentioned in the State of the Union address. They’re raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital. And they’re on video. Yep, we’re talking … Read More »
“We’re boring people to death and making games that are harder and harder to play,” John Riccitiello, then-newly appointed CEO of Electronics Arts (ERTS), told the Wall Street Journal last July, summarizing the main challenge of the company he had just taken over. And … Read More »
They’re on the cover of both this month’s National Geographic and Wired. They were mentioned in the State of the Union address. They’re raising hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital — and yet they sometimes smell like French … Read More »
By M.R. Rangaswami, publisher of SandHill.com and co-founder of Sand Hill Group They say that youth is fleeting. In the enterprise software industry, the youth are fleeing. One need only look at the hairlines of today’s software leaders. The current wunderkinds are not looking to create … Read More »
Developer Releases Joost Beta 1.0 Flash Mashup; Paul Yanez mimics the P2P service as a Flash app that runs in the browser accessing YouTube content. (Paul Yanez) Investors Cooling on Mobile TV?; analyst Tim Farrar says AT&T buying 700MHz band from Aloha Partners could signal … Read More »
There’s no individual that exemplifies the merging of the environmental movement and the technology industry more than former Vice President Al Gore. By now everyone’s seen his Academy Award-winning plea to fight climate change, and he’s a senior adviser to Google (GOOG), an Apple … Read More »
ABC (DIS), which has been a bit slow out of the gates with its overall digital strategy, is actually doing some cool stuff with its evening news, the New York Times points out today. The ABC World News team has evolved its podcast over the … Read More »
More Must Reads
MSN Admits Zune is Ugly
I saw a post on the homepage of MSN today for the top design disasters of the tech world. Guess what made the list? Our friend the brown Zune. Good to see Microsoft has some humor in itself, even if it is a stretch from … Read More »