Entries Tagged as 'Technology'

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Is Apple in trouble?

I was reading this great post from Scoble: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer which was spot-on, but for some reason it got me thinking about Apple instead of Microsoft. I think Apple is in serious trouble. The Amazon digital download store is much better than the iTunes store. Not the design or [...]

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Microsoft buys itself a Swedish Standard – Updated

It looks like the Swedish Standards Committee was going to vote “no, with comments” on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. Then, in the 3 days before the vote, 24 new companies paid the fees to join the committee. The result being that the standard was passed. Of those 24 companies, 18 of them were Microsoft Gold Certified [...]

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Second Life: on the decline

Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life – Los Angeles Times At http://www.secondlife.com — where the cost is $6 a month for premium citizenship — shopping, at least for real-world products, isn’t a main activity. Four years after Second Life debuted, some marketers are second-guessing the money and time they’ve put into it. “There’s [...]

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Apple: No BS iPhone Review – Gizmodo

Apple: No BS iPhone Review – Gizmodo I think I’ve been a fairly restrained geek for pretty much ignoring it on my blog before now. No, I don’t own one. No, I don’t plan on buying one… yet. Like the gizmodo writer, there are some fundamental things missing for me: MMS being something I use [...]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

wow, I crashed the tivo!

So our tivo decided to stop recognizing our wireless network AGAIN, so I did the stuff I’ve done before to fix it up, unplug the wireless adapter, reboot the tivo, restart the network, change the wireless setting, then finally voila, it connected and then rebooted TWICE! I’m realizing that the plus side to computer as [...]

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Steve, this is what happens when you give a lame keynote

Is Google Going To Buy Apple? | dmiessler.com With no good rumours to go on, no new hardware, no new iLife, the Apple rumour mill goes into overdrive. I think this a fairly unlikely thing. Google needs a hardware and consumer appliance manufacturer like Apple needs to get into the catering business. The Google business [...]

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

John Battelle reaches his Google saturation point

John Battelles Searchblog: Just Asking… Ive found myself more and more wary of doing things that Id like to do with Google applications simply out of some primal, lizard brain fear of giving too much control of my data to one source. Its not that I dont trust Google, its not that I dont like [...]

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Does virtualization herald the end of the platform war?

I was reading Marc Andreesen’s new blog and I came across this quote: Virtualization — in the form of software like Parallels and VMWare Fusion — lets you deal with an individual operating system as if it were an application. from blog.pmarca.com: At long last, switching back to Mac and I realized that since Apple [...]

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The Seattle micro-startup community is organizing

I was around and in fact active in the first web bubble in Seattle. It was a heady time, cocktail parties and pitches. Companies grabbing up every inch of pioneer square loft space and such. Then it all went away and I retreated back into the corporate world so that I could pay the bills. [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Bill and Steve together again on the D stage