Jul
31
Continental Airlines was to upgrade its homepage yesterday with a fresher looking design. Instead, this upgrade is turning out to be a disaster. Frequent flyers on flyertalk.com (one of the biggest forums for frequent flyers) are reporting that they are seeing other people’s reservations in their accounts, with the ability to change seats or even […]
Jul
11
Slowly the first reviews of My Times are trickling in. You can find my take here.
PaidContent has a short review up now.
They also point to the sluggishness of the service. First thoughts: Smart idea to start in very limited fashion. It’s sluggish right now and still very much a work […]
Jul
11
New York Times Launches MyTimes Beta
July 11, 2006 | 2 Comments
my.nytimes.com
I will review this soon. Just got my invitation email. Looks like a personalized homepage so far. Not sure what the NYTimes spin on it is yet, though. I definitely like the following from the invitation email:
My Times works best on Firefox for Windows and the Mac, and also works on Internet Explorer for Windows. […]
Jul
10
Some Thoughts About Podshow+
July 10, 2006 | 4 Comments
I have made no secret about my dislike for Podshow+. One of the reasons I dislike the product is because as of now, I do not see how this is going to lead regular (=not podcast listeners) users to podcasting. The moment I open the homepage, I see a blinking flash ad with music blaring […]
Jul
7
Just compare these two feeds: Rocketboom on Podshow+ and the original feed.
I think the worst is that they strip out information and just supply their own, such as the webmaster now being set to webmaster@podshow.com
Jul
7
Many a podcaster had been waiting since Tuesday for the release of Podshow+. According to Adam Curry, it was supposed to be released on Tuesday morning or at least at some point during the day. It was not. Neither was it released on Wednesday.
Today, on Thursday, it finally was available for a while, but […]
Jul
5
Amazing.
To some degree blog interpretation, he [Dr. Brian E. Ulicny, senior scientist for this “project”] said, involves understanding a different form of communication.
“Blog
entries have a different structure,” Ulicny said. “They are
typically short and are about something external to the blog posting
itself , such as a news event. It’s not uncommon for a
blogger to simply […]
Jul
1
Either Intel is desperately trying to come up with some angle to sell the idea of Viiv and totally failing at it, or this is just a joke. A Formula 1 inspired remote? With marker caps for buttons?
Technorati Tags: intel, viiv, remote
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