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Why We Love Our BlackBerry (Outages)

Chris Albrecht, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (8)

It was the groan heard round the world. BlackBerrys across the continent suffered outages for the second time in 10 months yesterday. The only thing funnier than the panic felt by millions of executives left with no option but to actually pay attention during meetings is the fact that it coincided with the device’s [...]

The GigaOM Show: TechCrunch’s Heather Harde

Chris Albrecht, Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (11)

Heather Harde, CEO of TechCrunch, stopped by the “The GigaOM Show” this week to chat with co-host Joyce Kim and myself about The Crunchies, working for a blog, and her thoughts on the mergers and acquisitions market.

You can download the episode in Quicktime, Windows Media and Xvid formats.

The Shins: iPhone vs. Zune - Fight!

Chris Albrecht, Monday, November 26, 2007 at 10:33 PM PT Comments (17)

Alterna-hipster band The Shins want you to buy a Zune. No. Whoops, wait. The Shins want you to buy an iPhone. Hold on, they want you to buy both? Talk about hedging your bets. The band is featured in current commercials for both portable media players. They haven’t been this ubiquitous since that stupid Garden [...]

GOOG-411’s “Biddy-Biddy-Boop”

Chris Albrecht, Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (43)

One of the things that makes the GOOG-411 directory service awesome — besides the fact that it’s free — is that cool “bippedy-bippedy-bippedy” sound it makes while searching. And now, for the first time ever, the man behind the “bips” (and the voice of 1-800-GOOG-411) breaks his silence to talk about that famous sound.
“We [...]

Weekend Fun: The OpenSocial Drinking Game

Chris Albrecht, Friday, November 2, 2007 at 4:07 PM PT Comments (12)

All this talk of Google’s OpenSocial networking initiative reminds me of college, where yelling “Social!” at a party meant everyone drank. Which, when you think about it is a pretty good analogy for what Google is doing. It yells “OpenSocial” and partners line up to guzzle the sweet widget Kool-Aid (Goog-Aid?).
Let’s remove the metaphor and [...]

Weekend Fun: On Facebook, Time Isn’t Money

Chris Albrecht, Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 7:19 PM PT Comments (2)

How much time and money do you spend on Facebook? That was the question we recently asked those who installed the GigaOm Question of the Day app, that we launched on October 17. Over 80 people piped in and offered up gems like these:
* “Since time is money, then I’m spending to much of both.” [...]

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