Feb
12
As promised last year, Intel has demonstrated the prototype of an 80 core processor over the weekend. That’s a lot of cores, but they produce a teraflop of computing power. Just what to do with that power and how to program the chip seems to be a bit of a mystery still, but it seems […]
Feb
9
Linden Labs released an excel spreadsheet today which gives us some insights into actual user behavior versus the hype around Second Life we have seen in the past.
Basically, it comes down to the simple fact that Second Life has about 57.000 paying customers with premium accounts and about 2.000.000 users overall, with a 40 to […]
Feb
9
There seems to be some excitement building around a possible Zune Phone.
Wow - I am sooo excited. After the failure of the Zune and the hype around the Apple iPhone, what could be greater than a Zune Phone? Maybe it will have a crippled phone function where you can only talk to selected friends - […]
Feb
9
I am sitting in one of Portland’s favorite coffee shops and around me, all I see are Apple Laptops. My little 12 inch Dell 700m makes me feel like an outsider here.
Most people around are somewhere in their twenties, but even the guys in business suites are carrying around Mac Pros here. Everybody is also […]
Feb
9
Maybe Steve Jobs did create the discussion in the music industry that he was looking for. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, EMI is talking to retailers to sell MP3s without DRM restrictions. The report, of course, is heavily based upon non-disclosed sources and there are no official acknowledgments or denials, but I think the general […]
Feb
9
It’s YouTube day today, but this one was too good to pass over (via Gizmodo):
Technorati Tags: athf, 24, jack bauer
Feb
9
Anna Nicole Smith Died
February 9, 2007 | 1 Comment
So Anna Nicole Smith died and the news media have hardly anything else to talk about? Even the New York Times mentions it on the front page. Why do people care about this stuff?
Is this really the world we live in where the death of a former playmate best known for selling hoax products […]
Feb
9
Ben Metcalfe has written was is probably the most reasonable response to the SEO, linkbaiting, splog discussion of recent days, pointing out not only the problems with SEO, but my favorite target PPP as well.
But it’s social media I feel is at most risk. It’s decentralized, it ultimately relies on the principles of honesty and […]
Feb
8
Brent Schlender of Fortune magazine thinks so. He argues that Steve Jobs unusual move to publicly bash the music industry is so that he can re-negotiate Apple’s deals with them and get them to agree to let consumers download music on the iPhone directly.
Could Jobs’ eloquent plea on behalf of consumers all be a gambit […]
Feb
7
Via Pronet Advertising:
If you watch this video, you will really understand how shady the SEO business can often be. This guy in the video advertises spamming social bookmarking sites. He even gets pretty breathless, telling us how his service is going to give my “site the traffic it deserves by using his one-of-a-king, unique […]
Feb
7
According to CBS News, there is some discussion of banning the use of iPods and other music players when crossing the road. The overall reaction so far is that this is a proposition best used as material for late-night talkshows. Engadget even got this nice little picture.
And now that we are over our libertarian, anti-government […]
Feb
6
Steve Jobs Dreams of a DRM Free World
February 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
In an unusual statement today, Steve Jobs more or less called upon the music industry to abolish DRM, because it doesn’t work.
Clearly, Apple is trying to position itself on the side of the consumer. Jobs says that, if only the Big Four (Universal, BMG, Bertelsman and EMI) would drop their idea that DRM systems […]
Feb
6
2000 Blogs to Delete
February 6, 2007 | 2 Comments
It looks like Technorati has heard the outrage in the blogosphere over the 2000 Bloggers thing sweeping the blogosphere. At its essence, it is a random link list, meant to game google and technorati. Zoli Erdos has written the best summary so far:
Links are good, but they are supposed to refer to content. Not here. […]
Feb
6
I think Jascon Calacanis is mistaken when he thinks PayPerPost is going to out of business soon.
Someone asked me when I would stop beating up on PayPerPost and I
explained that either a) when the force disclosure in the first
sentence of the post and make their marketplace 100% transparent, or b)
when they go out of business […]
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