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Housing Hoops in Harlem

November 20, 2007

My visit to the first House of Hoops in Harlem, NY.

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Hulu Test

October 29, 2007

Experimenting with Hulu right after it launched.

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Holy 300!

March 10, 2007

I had heard it was tracking big, but a $27.4 million Friday, for an R-rated movie with no big starpower?
Wow.  Guess people were fired up for some Spartans.

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AT&T/Cingular, as explained by Mr. Colbert

January 17, 2007
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The Future, Circa 1993

December 7, 2006

Courtesy of AT&T (the old, pre-SBC one) by way of Andrew Sullivan and Boing Boing.
Smooth vocal talents complements of Magnum P.I.

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Well, at least for one week I don’t care about the NFL Network-Time Warner feud

December 3, 2006
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Is Sony Toast?

September 6, 2006

If this Wired article is right, then this news is probably the death knell for Sony.

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Diet Coke and Mentos and Ka-ching

June 19, 2006

Read today on PaidContent that the guys who did the Diet Coke & Mentos video have made $15,000 thru Revver, the YouTubesque site they posted it on (who pays 50% of ad revenues to the uploader/content owner).

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Carpeteria keeps it exciting

June 6, 2006

When you’re shopping for budget carpet, I guess you can’t ask for any frills, especially in the naming department:

Honestly, who came up with ‘Boot Camp’ and thought it would move carpet?  Does anyone come in and say "oh yeah, this is nice….I’ll take wall-to-wall Boot Camp!", outside of those seeking apholstery for their boot camp?  [...]

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The Next Blockbuster Comic Book Movie

June 1, 2006

Serving cease-and-desists faster than a speeding bullet….he’s Captain Copyright:

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Gotta love those major airlines

May 15, 2006

Ze has a lovely experience on Delta.
On a sidenote (via a link on Ze’s page) — you know what I love in my airline?  A nice healthy Chapter 11 statement.
Kudos United & Delta.
Suck on that, Southwest.

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Dumbest. Lawsuit. Ever.

May 11, 2006

A guy is suing my beloved Los Angeles Angels b/c he didn’t get a bag at last year’s Mother’s Day Bag Giveaway at Angel Stadium; his lawyer attempts to explain:
By looking at the bag, you can see a 17-year-old male or female would be just as happy with it as an 18-year-old male or female. [...]

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Sony’s Bravia Advertisement

March 27, 2006

One of the coolest ads I’ve ever seen.  But why isn’t it on TV anywhere?
What gives Sony?

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Americans are growing with their houses

January 24, 2006

Gluttony fans — you will be happy to know that the increase in American home sizes is keeping pace with the physical growth (weight, not quantity) of the collective U.S. population. 
Who cares if you’re fat–just get a 4,000 square foot house, and you’ll feel relatively the same as the skinny you who lived in [...]

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SpotRunner

January 12, 2006

I don’t want to gush too much until I actually try it…but at first glance, SpotRunner looks AWESOME.  How long before Google buys them, and assimilates their service into AdWords?

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Get ready for your Google Pack

January 5, 2006

The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that Google’s big CES announcement is in fact video-related, as earlier suggested by Om Malik. 
According to WSJ (via Reuters UK), Google will announce new video distribution partnerships (with content creators/distributors) and new software to enable rights-managed video to be purchased thru Google Video.  The new software is supposedly called [...]

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OM: No Google Cube…improved Google Video

January 5, 2006

Om Malik’s saying that Google’s big announcement tomorrow at CES is related to Google Video, not a "Google Cube" announcement.

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Friday! Friday! Friday!

January 1, 2006

This Friday, January 6 at 4pm, to be exact.  That’s when Larry Page will be giving a keynote at CES 2006.  It could also be when we get a big announcement about what’s next from Google. 
According to an article in today’s L.A. Times, it sounds like it could be a super-cheap PC with a [...]

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AT&T to spend $1 billion rebranding

December 31, 2005

That’s the price tag to go from SBC to at&t–and it all kicks off today.  Sad part is, I don’t know anyone who is a customer of SBC that actually loves their service.  So they’re spending a billion dollars to launch a new brand AND supplement their complete and utter lack of any word-of-mouth support.
Can’t [...]

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Thoughts on Photo Opportunities

December 14, 2005

When the time comes for an executive at your company to pose with the new technology you’re about to introduce, remember these two cautionary images well (from a Japanese PSP game launch and the GameBoy Advanced launch, respectively):

(via Game + Life Review)

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