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Technology

It sounded like a good idea…

February 27, 2006

After seeing the rumors of a touchscreen controller for the new Nintendo console (Revolution), my brother said it sounded eerily reminiscent of another "cool controller concept" that didn’t quite work:

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Massively Multiplayer Lifehacking

January 4, 2006

I’ve got too much USC football on the brain to go into detail about this, but I love the ideas represented in Steven Frank’s Massive Multiplayer Personal Productivity post.  I’ll grok further as soon as time permits.

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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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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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Yahoo! News now accepting TrackBacks

October 27, 2005

I just posted a link to this story (about Sulu coming out of the closet) and TypePad pinged Yahoo! News at the url: http://labs.news.yahoo.com/trackback/ap/people_george_takei
I’m guessing from the labs part of the url, this is still a newer function.  We’ll follow this one to see what they actually do with the TrackBacks.  After all, I noticed [...]

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Do you have BlackBerry thumb?

October 22, 2005

With how annoying a constant BlackBerry user can be, I have to think this may be the official "Least Sympathy-Generating Ailment of 2005":
“BlackBerry Thumb” is what people are calling sore thumbs from too much
texting. It’s actually a very real repetitive stress injury.

Is Texting Painful? You may have "BlackBerry Thumb" {Lifehacker}

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Buy week

October 7, 2005

Big week in the blog world, as Weblogs, Inc. gets bought by AOL, NetNewsWire gets swallowed up by NewsGator, Andy Baio’s Upcoming.org gets bought by Yahoo, and Verisign buys Weblogs.com from Dave Winer.
And hey–it’s still Friday morning, you know what that means–we could have another 2 companies sold by 5pm.

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Josh Hallett on 8-Minute Abs/Web 2.0

October 3, 2005

I happened to see this over at Josh Hallett’s site today, in his post about Web 2.1/3.0, and I couldn’t resist reposting it here:
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs? Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video. Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen [...]

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APIs for Audioscrobbling

September 19, 2005

APIs from Audioscrobbler and Last.fm.  Now go forth and make cool music-related Web 2.0 apps.

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The talk of the morning…

August 31, 2005

…seems to be The Onion’s redesign and opening of their news archives/removal of the walled garden.  The goal was to make the site look as much like a real news site as possible, and I’d say Mission Accomplished, complete with RSS feeds and daily polls.
Hats off to Khoi Vinh and the Behavior Design team responsible [...]

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10 Blogs I’d Take to a Desert Island

August 28, 2005

Old thread, but I have been meaning to respond, and by gosh, I am going to post a response:

Gawker – Week in and week out, still the best show out there.
Buzzmachine – Jarvis rules. ‘Nuff said.
Tony Pierce – In case I hadn’t made it clear, Tony’s one of the Taco Stand’s biggest influences and remains [...]

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Yahoo buys Konfabulator

July 24, 2005

I’m not exactly sure what this means from a business standpoint; but I’m pretty sure it’s going to have something to do with Yahoo! throwing a bunch of widgets our way.  And I do like widgets.

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Hermosa Beach Wi-Fi Project?

July 10, 2005

Om Malik on How Hermosa Beach Wi-Fi Project Works?
How did I not hear about the Hermosa Beach Wi-Fi Project?

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Amazon buys CustomFlix

July 10, 2005

From PaidContent:
Amazon.com, still trying to figure out its part in the digital media sector, has bought out CustomFlix Labs, a small, Santa Cruz, CA-based company that creates DVDs on demand. Amazon would not disclose terms of the deal, which came three months after the company bought BookSurge, which does the same thing with books.
The goal [...]

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Yahoo! News launches its first blog

July 10, 2005

It’s dedicated to news the London Bombings and despite a less-than-user-friendly layout, and only providing summaries of each entry on the index page (gotta max out those click-thrus), it’s still cool to see Yahoo News adopt blogs for events like this–it’s a potentially great use of the medium.

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Can’t Find On Google

July 10, 2005

How much must Google love this?

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Cringely: May 2005–A New Inflection Point

May 18, 2005

NOTE: Took me a week to get to this–that’s what you get for avoiding Slashdot.
Robert Cringely is definitely a smart dude.
This week, from his Pulpit over at PBS, he is predicting that many years from now, we may look back at early May 2005 as an all-time historic moment in the maturation of the web:
It’s [...]

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Google’s going to blow up your cable box

May 15, 2005

I just read this, and I think I just fully got it (it being Google’s whole video upload strategy)  With all of the video uploads/hosting, storage, and infrastructure investments, Google just BECOMES the cable companies and/or satellite providers.  Who needs to bother with those guys?  Just get a Google DirectLine, and tap in at lightning-fast [...]

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Google buys Dodgeball

May 11, 2005

The Dodgeball.com folks just announced some big news:

Big news, dodgeball fans!  On May 11th dodgeball.com was acquired by Google!
I’m sure a lot of you have some questions about what this means for you
and the future of dodgeball, so we put together a quick Q&A. Let us know if you have any other questions!

Kudos to them; [...]

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How long has Netflix been doing this for?

May 9, 2005

I was browsing my ridiculously overpacked Netflix queue tonight, when I noticed something I hadn’t seen before; when I rolled over any movie in the queue, a little DHTML window opened (took a sec to load) with more info on the movie, and usually some cover art as well:

Up and down the page, for any [...]

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