Firefox, Search Engines, and the Truth About Corporations
A few days ago TechMeme picked up a story at Search Engine Land about how Firefox doesn’t make you choose a search engine. Firefox 3 was recently reRead More…
Year: 2007
Netflix Eliminating Profiles: Tells Us We Don’t Own Our Data
Last night Netflix sent out an email (full text below) explaining that it will be getting rid of profiles. For those unfamiliar, the profile feature aRead More…
Reddit Goes Open Source: What Does That Really Mean?
My new favorite crowd voting / social bookmarking site Reddit made the announcement today that it’s “open source.” This means the code for the sRead More…
The Next Revolution: Why The New iPhone Matters
A revolution is easy to spot when looking backward, but they are much harder to see when they first happen. Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Amazon…all revolRead More…
The Death of Search Engines?
There’s an interesting article over at ZDNet UK. The idea is that people don’t need to go to a search engine to find what they need. If they want Read More…
I’ve Given Up on Digg & Delicious But Am Hooked on Reddit
The title of this post was originally going to be “Delicious: A Review from a Late Adopter.” But that was four months ago and only a few days afteRead More…
I Bought My First Firefox Extension Today
While Walt Mossberg is getting buzz for calling Firefox 3 the “best browser for web — for now,” I thought I’d point out my first time paying fRead More…
PlayStation 3 Getting In-Game Ads Two Years After Xbox 360
Sony has some big news coming out today: The company will allow “dynamic” ads to be placed in PlayStation 3 games. The Wall Street Journal is callRead More…
Blu-ray Movies Now Affordable. Players? Not So Much.
An Amazon promotion good through June 9 has over 100 Blu-ray movies in the $14 to $20 range (with many around $14-$15). I thought this would be a goodRead More…
HP is the New Dell: Great Customization Options and Even Better Price
My last two laptops have both been Dell. I had always loved the fact that I could customize my laptop fairly specifically at the same time as getting Read More…