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Trends in rich media consumption and delivery

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:02:37 GMT

Here?s an interesting Q and A session with a panel of experts in the rich media industry — mostly online video ? that took place last Tuesday at the Pacific Crest Technology Leadership Forum in Vail, Colorado. The members of the panel: Ron Bloom, CEO, MEVIO Mike Hudack, CEO, Blip.tv Steve Liddell, CEO, Panther Express [...]

Just a reminder to watch Olympic Table Tennis

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:00:00 GMT

The Olympics have started. Beginning next Tuesday, we?ll witness some of the most finely-tuned athletes in the world battling it out on a little green table. Here?s to Olympic Table Tennis, one of the greatest sports of all time. Now let?s take a look at the members of the US Table Tennis Team that will be [...]

Nrme?s Location-Based iPhone App Goes Live. But Will Anyone Use It?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:35:57 GMT

Last June we got a sneak peek at nrme, a location-based message service for the iPhone. The service behaves like a regional Twitter, but is geared towards sharing information rather than chatting - it’s sort of like a neighborhood bulletin board in the cloud. Instead of using a follow system, nrme makes all [...]

WSJ Creates BlackBerry App, Opens Some Previously Paid Content

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:28:19 GMT

For those of you who read WSJ for the articles, the new BlackBerry-compatible WSJ.com Mobile Reader will open up the nasty walled garden that is WSJ.com. The application will be free and most of the content will be open, although there are plans to lock it down in the near future. The application will draw [...]

Real Estate Sites Are Holding Up, Despite The Housing Slump. Some (Trulia) Better Than Others (Zillow).

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:59:57 GMT

The real estate slump may still be helping to drag down the economy, but real-estate sites like Trulia and Zillow seem to be holding up just fine. In fact, the number of monthly unique visitors to Trulia has more than doubled to 2.4 million over the past year, according to comScore. Zillow, in [...]

Songsterr: A Flash Guitar Tab Player That Might Rock, Someday

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:52:27 GMT

One of the reasons why the guitar has become a staple in pop culture is its immediate accessibility. In lieu of standard notation, guitar players have developed tablature - a more intuitive representation of a song that uses numbers to indicate which fret on a guitar each note is played. Even the most [...]

Virgin Mobile USA to sell Kyocera TNT! for only 20 bucks

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:48:18 GMT

Starting Aug 20th, Virgin Mobile USA will be selling Kyocera?s TNT! handset for just $20; the ?soft to the touch? handset is already available from Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack. Virgin Mobile says the TNT! flip phone is both stylish and durable and ?perfect for consumers who like the simple things in phones.? Simple [...]

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:53:42 GMT

Two more lower-end media handsets from Moto

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:56:50 GMT

Along with the ZN200 making Motorola?s global site, the handset maker has also announced two new, lower end media centric phones: the W388 and the W396. The candy bar W388 includes a music player with Moto ID, FM radio, microSD slot with 2GB card support and promises a 9 hour talk time, 16 day standby time [...]

AT&T partners with Rock The Vote, FunMobility to bring politics to young people

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:18:33 GMT

AT&T announced a partnership with Rock The Vote and FunMobility earlier this week for new civic-minded mobile content. Rock The Vote and AT&T will launch a mobile campaign to encourage young people to vote; the campaign hopes to bring together ?popular music, artists and mobile technologies to engage today’s youth with the political process.? And FunMobility [...]

Alligators! Cupcakes!

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:57:09 GMT

While not technically a gadget, the alligator cupcake pan was simply too great not to share. Be sure to eat your cake before it eats you. thanks Cooking Gadgets

MSI Wind for $479.99 (backordered, of course)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:45:25 GMT

Hey, looks like Best Buy hasn?t jacked up the price of the MSI Wind! If you?re still looking for one for under $500 and you?re okay with waiting 1-2 weeks, you may be able to grab one through Best Buy. It?s online-only, so don?t bother heading out to your local store. It?s also the three-cell [...]

Can you engineer a technology cluster? The Irish experience

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:40:27 GMT

So I recently wrote about the idea of having a purpose-built/created technology cluster or building(s) in London which I whimsically called “TechHub”. (As London is a big city the tech scene has always been incredibly spread out, with no definable cluster). The post was inspired by my visit to the Digital Hub in Dublin, a [...]

This week?s top three jobs on CrunchBoard

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:02:36 GMT

This week’s top three jobs on CrunchBoard are: Ruby on Rails developer with an interest in sport New Media Coordinator Programmer / ninja for groundbreaking interactive restaurant The CrunchBoard job board gives you access to millions of technology and business savvy readers of TechCrunch, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear and other top technology blogs. CrunchBoard is permanently linked from these sites. Join other [...]

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Google Street View goes ahead in UK. Thanks again, Privacy International

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:43:53 GMT

So I should say at the outset that there is nothing wrong with the concept of privacy. But in an age of social media, people really are going to have to start getting used to the idea that a lot of what we do in public is going to be “out there”. To digress briefly [...]

Sarah Lacy Book Tour - I?m In

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:35:42 GMT

Sarah Lacy, the author of the book ?Once You?re Lucky, Twice You?re Good,? is thinking of doing a book tour. Start things off here in Atherton, Sarah. I’ll do the first one at my house. See my interview with Sarah on the new book here.

ETA Bombs Spanish Newspaper

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:30:50 GMT

The ETA may or may not have a legitimate goal in demanding Basque independence, but bombing a building full of journalists is no way to win karma points or influence people.

I?m going with what Mathew Said

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:47:07 GMT

I already picked one blog fight today. So on the other issue, I’m going with what Mathew Ingram said.

We Don?t Do Reprints

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:10:17 GMT