September 2011
10 posts
Liked: Failbook: It’s Always More Delicious With... →
Failbook, covering social media from facepalms to high-fives.
Liked: theRizznFamily's Xbox - Sep 19 2011 →
I told theRizznFamily ‘Hey man, it is time to play games’ and YAY! he listened! Gamer score is 28,993. That is a boost of 595 points over last time! He played Alan Wake finishing an amazing 31 achievements, and then I came out of my trance and realized it was all over.
Liked: Steven Hodson Joins Medacity As Opinion... →
Medacity (a publication of Nichenet Pty Ltd) is proud to announce that tech opinion writer Steven Hodson has joined the team as its first dedicated opinion writer.
Hodson, who previously worked for Nichenet is a similar role at The Inquisitr, will be offering regular opinion pieces and selected coverage of the new media sphere.
Hodson, a veteran blogger and podcaster with a particular interest...
Liked: awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
The cast... →
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
The cast of the original Star Wars trilogy
“ARB,” I believe the parlance goes.
Thing is: we should store copies of this photo in every library and every time capsule.
Because, I think this may be very important.
Liked: All you Netflix whiners need to STHU.... →
There is a war going on right now and while it might not be bloody or leaving bodies strewn all over the place it is a nasty war and you my friend are the frontline troopers.
It is a war of attrition and big money. It is war that has only just started and already the battle lines are being blurred with corporate greed and misinformation, and above all our own greed in getting every thing that...
Liked: Big News: Microsoft utters the words “Media... →
As usual, the buildup to Build, and what will be revealed about Windows 8 and its surrounding ecosystem, is much more about what Microsoft is NOT saying than what it has. After the Windows 8 demo at this summer’s D8 conference, where Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green revealed that the new tablet interface for Windows 8 would run apps written in HTML5 and JavaScript (throwing .Net developers...
Liked: The Myth of Reputation →
We worry about our reputation. How are we perceived? What do people say about us? If we’re not around, what gets said differently? The trick is that reputation comes from the perspectives of others, and as such, it’s not ours to worry about.
The Myth of Reputation
Ask my dozens of haters and they’ll say I’m overrated, have nothing new to say, and am in it for the money. Ask my devoted and...
Liked: Hurricane Path FAIL →
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Picture by: Cody on FB :3
Liked: VMworld 2011 Recap: VMware Tackles the... →
We’ve been covering the VMworld 2011 since the event started on August 29th. We even had a live coverage via #theCube. The said event was hosted by our very own John Furrier, CEO and Founder of SiliconAngle together with Dave Vellante, CEO and founder of Wikibon. VMworld is an annual conference for IT professionals, focusing on virtual server environments, put on by VMware.
VMworld 2011...
Liked: Q&A with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, the... →
Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in 1993 and released it to the public in 1995. Since then, Ruby and the framework Ruby on Rails have taken off, earning a seat at the programming table along side other popular languages like Java and PHP. Matz was recently hired by Heroku, the Ruby platform-as-a-service owned by Salesforce.com, as the chief architect of Ruby. I sat down with him at the...
August 2011
21 posts
Liked: Why Geolocation isn’t Quite “There Yet” →
This weekend, we cowered to think that major cities on the American east coast would be pummeled by Hurricane Irene. We watched CNN and Twitter to see how things were going.
Geolocation tools like Foursquare could have been amazing during a natural disaster like Irene. Imagine if any check-in tagged with #Irene were pulled onto a map, and then you could see what sort of damage was done to...
Liked: HP's Dead TouchPad Claims No. 2... →
How’d HP do it? Seemingly by just slashing the price to $99. But even at bargain basement prices, consumers want usability. For other also-ran tablets who aspire to nip at Apple’s heels, there’s a lesson here in finding the sweet spot between price, design, and function.
HP had high hopes that its TouchPad could catch up to Apple’s iPad in the tablet marketplace. But...
Liked: Bradley: HP may "resurrect" TouchPad? →
HP Personal Systems Group EVP Todd Bradley is currently over in China, where he spoke to Reuters about the future of the PSG. Speaking somewhat candidly, Bradley admitted that the preferred path for the PSG is a spin-off as an independent company and not an attempt to sell the massive PC manufacturing arm of HP to another company. Quashing rumors about his possible departure, Bradley said that...
Liked: EMC’s Steve Manley Talks Backup, Dedupe at... →
Steven Manley, CTO of EMC’s Backup and Recovery group attended VMworld and made his first appearance in theCube. He discussed backup, where EMC stands in this market, and his take on the industry.
Manley kicked of the convo with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante by talking a bit about his role in the company, following with his opinion of the major influencers in the market. He highlighted that customers...
Liked: AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each... →
I liked a YouTube video: What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this…
Liked: Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is... →
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
By Deena Stryker
Date posted: 15 August 2011 View this article online here:
http://bit.ly/nG0Oys
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland...
Liked: Tell your search engine what are you... →
Do you dream about conversational virtual assistants that recognize your voice? First try to talk to your search engine. Your voice will be recorded, transcribed subsequently by the speech server, and then sent back as text. With Google Voice Recognition application users can talk to the computer through a microphone and search for results by speaking, as presented on the video below.
Link...
Liked: Steve Jobs is Silicon Valley’s Babe Ruth,... →
I used to meet with Steve jobs in the 1980s, when he was lauded as a visionary. To be honest I wasn’t that impressed with him.
Sure, he deserved credit for the Apple I and then Lisa, which turned into the Macintosh but it was too early to tell what he was capable of doing. Lots of people are successful in Silicon Valley and he was among them but you never know how much luck is involved.
In the...
Liked: Portal: No Escape →
Liked: Google+ 1 More: I'm Joining Google Monday →
In the world of tech, you can make the news or you can break the news. I like to do both. Never wanting to just play the role of armchair quarterback, I have over the last 12+ years actively played a direct or advisory role to dozens of startup companies, both consumer and enterprise. In the last 5+ years, I have shared with you many of my own experiences here on this blog, be it what I am seeing...
Liked: M thru F: I’d Also Like to See It Compared... →
Because apples are delicious and nutritious, neither of which are qualities of which the iPad or a rock can boast.
Check for your boss before visiting M Thru F!
Liked: London Looter Robs the Wrong Computer Geek,... →
When the London riots broke out, Greg Martin—a self-styled information security evangelist and computer security contractor—didn’t expect that he’d become the victim of a theft. According to his blog, he had returned to his London abode to discover his living space broken into, ransacked, and his Macbook Pro missing.
To many, the personal violation of a break-in and burglary can be a chilling...
Liked: Want A Starbucks? Use Jonathan's Card →
Jonathan is letting anyone who wants to use his Starbucks card. He’s posted a scanned copy of the mobile-app code on his Starbucks card and invited anyone who wants to to have a cup on him. The crazy thing is that it’s working like “leave a penny, take a penny,” with some people adding onto the card’s balance after they grab a brew.
Starbucks reloadable cards let...
“Just text.Long quoteLong quoteLong quoteLong quoteLong quoteLong quoteLong...”
– another blog. test post.
“Lorum ipsum and whatnot. I’m someone famous and I said it.”
– Some other blog.
This is a text update. [Test]
text text text. Lorum ipsum and whatnot.
Liked: Missed Connections →
Liked: Nymwars: IRL on Google's Lawns. →
We need to bring this struggle to Google IRL (In Real Life - physical, real world, meet space). Here is my thinking on why and my ideas about how.
WHY:
Even women with privileged access to Google insiders and who have real name handle combinations are not getting reinstated.
Yesterday, my friend Joseph Smarr put me in a circle - he works on Google+ and so I decided to e-mail him and ask if He...
Liked: Hyperdodecahedron →
Liked: [Video] ‘Netflix Relief Fund’ Plea…... →
Jason Alexander- perhaps the grand poobah of explaining White People Problems (or First World Problems)- posts a heartfelt plea for people to please, think of the tears falling on MacBook Pros across America after the recent Netflix price hike.
Netflix Relief Fund with Jason Alexander from Jason Alexander
[Video] ‘Netflix Relief Fund’ Plea… Starring Jason Alexander is a post from: The...
Liked: Failbook: Ritng in Shrt Frm →
Failbook, covering social media from facepalms to high-fives.
July 2011
10 posts
Liked: The Last (Funny) Crusade to Save MySpace:... →
Social networking is a life cycle of Internet royalty. If there’s a popular fad, death is inevitable. This is the reality that re-surfaced few months ago, starting with the extinction of Friendster. Facebook is a phenomenal and strong force that extinguished its competition; the latest to crumble was MySpace. While the world views social media as a come-and-go situation, the shut-down period at...
Liked: Voicemail Hacking Scanadal Leads to U.K... →
News Corp. has been struck with a wave of legal allegations ever since it became public that employees of News International, itsU.S.newspaper unit, are suspected to have carried out multiple voicemail hackings of public figures and even murder victims. Specifically, members of the News of the World tabloid staff were accused of these wrongdoings.
Today, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch and son...
Liked: We’re Already Raving About Spotify:... →
With the recent availability of Spotify to the US, it’s already getting great reviews from first-time users. We’re pretty impressed by it from the moment of download to the point when you’re actually listening to its massive music library.
We went ahead and signed up for the unlimited version, filling out the necessary details (username, password, etc.) You’re then prompted to download the...
Liked: Law Enforcement Seeks Legislation Requiring... →
Law enforcement representatives plan to endorse proposed legislation that will force communication providers—Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecom and cable companies—to retain their customers’ logs for 18 months. The mandatory data retention bill is in hearing today before the U.S. House of Representatives. The would-be bill has not yet been drafted or presented, but it is yet being argued...
Liked: Google+ moron moment – no it won’t replace... →
It never, ever, fails.
No sooner than some new social media slash social network slash circle jerk comes along and it is being proclaimed as the big, awesome, incredible, replacement for your blog.
Uhm, No.
I realize we are all pretty well lazy and always looking for easier ways to do things; and of course maintaining a blog with intelligent thought out discussions is such a horrendous chore...
Liked: Warning! Social Networks Are Made Out of... →
Having lived through the rise and fall of FriendFeed, the slow rise and then rapid quickening of Twitter, and the “not quite right for this world” debut and subsequent dismissal of Buzz, I practically feel like a grizzled old social networking veteran. (But don’t say expert, for that meets with an icy stare of doom) Now that the digerati and their extended circles are finding...
Liked: Found Quotes, 8 →
The young are still the enemies of uniformity, and the Internet, as it extends its reach into all the nooks and crannies of our days, is looking more and more like an enormous conduit of conventionality. What are Facebook and Google but giant institutions, arms of the new establishment? What are smartphones if not high-tech leashes? Some kind of rebellion seems in order. — Nick Carr, Get on...
Liked: Data journalism, data tools, and the... →
The MIT Civic Media conference and 2011 Knight News Challenge winners made it clear that data journalism and data tools will play key roles in the future of media and open government.
Liked: Space Shuttle Program was a $209 billion... →
MIT Technology Review - The Space Shuttle program’s benefits weren’t worth the cost—and now the U.S. is in jeopardy of repeating the same mistake, says a leading space policy expert.
* 135 shuttle launches since 1981
* Other, simpler designs were considered in 1971 in the run-up to President Nixon’s final decision; in retrospect, taking a more evolutionary approach by...
Liked: New Images Suggest "Shared Circles" Coming... →
Florian Rohrweck has been on a role lately uncovering upcoming features to Google+ (including noticing features in Google’s code hinting at Google+’s launch days before it launched and as other bloggers were under embargo and being demoed top secret versions), and it seems Google isn’t keeping their upcoming features well enough behind a test area somewhere. In a recent blog post...
June 2011
22 posts
Liked: New Content Returns In August →
Lois in a French maid’s outfit. Housekeeping, old school.
Housekeeping* time: I’m taking a break from the web site for a little bit longer yet. New content will appear in August. Until then, be good, okay?
(Oh, and my recap of the Smallville finale has been held back. Upon reflection, I thought it would make more sense if I finished off the infamous Season Eight gap before chronicling...
Liked: Simon Pegg + iPad Emergency = Win →
Simon Pegg, I have an iPad too, except it’s smaller and it also makes phone calls. Sometimes.
[via]
Simon Pegg + iPad Emergency = Win is a post from: The Inquisitr
Liked: LulzSec “Hack the Planet” Week TGIF’s with... →
Late last night, Thursday, the Internet highwaymen group of LulzSec finished collating through numerous leaks and other information they gathered from directing other hacker groups to attack government websites and released a megaton smartbomb of leaked information from Arizona’s Department of Public Safety. No doubt this move has once again upped the ante in the search for the group, but it also...
Liked: Are Telepresence Robots the Future of Going... →
The Web has enabled a growing number of us to work remotely and even collaborate with one another from distant locations. While online meeting services like GoToMeeting, Fuze and WebEx are effective at letting us communicate with one another, they don’t quite compare to the experience of actually being there.
What if you could go to the office without physically leaving your home?...
Liked: EMC Opens Support Center in Utah, Adds 500... →
EMC will be opening a new support center in Utah, Governor Gary R. Herbert announced this week. Under its agreement with the state, the storage giant will add 500 new jobs and will invest $7 million in the set-up of the new facility that will accommodate this workforce by 2015.
“On an annual aggregate basis, wages for these 500 new employees are expected to exceed 125% of the average county...
Liked: Revealed: Facebook’s music plans involve... →
For the past few months, I have been hearing about Facebook and Spotify getting a lot closer as companies, with a much tighter integration between the two services. However, Facebook’s musical ambitions go beyond Spotify and include other music services and applications. The company is currently working on lining up more partners for the 2011 edition of f8, its annual developer conference, which...
Liked: [Pic] A Spider’s Last Thoughts →
So now while you are battling crippling fear, you can also experience crushing guilt.
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[Pic] A Spider’s Last Thoughts is a post from: The Inquisitr
Liked: The 800lb Gorilla: Spotify US Launch Is... →
[I’m in London this week following keynoting a conference for Omnicom’s European senior leadership teams. The following news was from a panel I moderated on Tuesday.]
Spotify, the most successful music streaming service, has signed the remaining deals it needs with record labels to finalize its US launch, which is now expected in the first week of July.
“We’re signing the...
Liked: Airbus reveals transparent plane to... →
Megha Chaturvedi:
Revolution in air travel: Airbus reveals the transparent planeRevolution in air travel: Airbus reveals the transparent plane
Airbus has always been the first choice for the luxury flyers. Be it the Airbus A350 that has BMW interior or leisure travelers with facilities as luxurious as mini-hotel suites, the company has never disappointed its flyers. So, to continue...