I think I’ve been blogging far too much recently. I’ll try and make this a quicky. As the three of you reading THIS blog probably know, Apple is announcing something BIG tomorrow. So big, they’ve put a picture on their home page proclaiming, “The first 30 years were just the beginning.” Wow. That’s some powerful [...]
I’m sure everybody heard a while ago about that hot Goo-Tube action that got everybody all excited. Google bought YouTube back on October 19th (I think it was) for 1.65BBBBBBBBBBBBillion in stock. Immediately after the announcement, Google’s stock went from $420.23 to $458.99… implying the total value of Google went from about $128BBBBBBBBBBBBillion to $140BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBillion! [...]
Who are the masterminds behind this operation anyway? Wouldn’t you like to know? Well, your chance is finally nigh.. in their first public appearance ever, both Josh and Dallas have been invited to speak on a panel at ISPCON in Santa Clara, CA, this Wednesday, November 8th, @ 4:15pm. The panel is entitled What the [...]
Last week, as I was lazily thumbing through the May 2006 issue of AmericanWay, the AWARD-WINNING in-flight magazine of American Airlines, a familar face caught my eye. Who WAS that cheery-eyed elf peering back at me from the upper-right hand corner of THE EXPERT SPEAKS? I knew I’d never met the man, and yet I’d [...]
The world of web hosting is magical and wonderous. Having a website lets you show the world extremely important things like pictures of your cats, and also lets you share your not-at-all-crazy political views with the WORLD! But let’s say you’re Joe Schmo. Let’s say you don’t know a whole lot about web hosting, but [...]
Amazon is playing a trick on the world! Amazon has a new service (still heavily in beta.. based on how many page errors I get trying to use it) called Mechanical Turk with the tag line “Artificial Artificial Intelligence.” The name is a reference to a “chess-playing automaton” built in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen, [...]
Well, so, Josh didn’t get his wish about the video Airport Express, but I still think the new iPod video stuff is neat (especially the part about downloading TV shows). But we’ve been a bit too busy today to debate the finer points. The thing keeping us busiest this morning was a huge influx of [...]
So… apparently after the iPod Nano debut on September 7th, Apple has “One more thing…” to unveil next week. Rumor is, it’s going to be a video iPod. Well, it may be. Or is may not be. Who cares? I’m not here to speculate about the rumors. Oh, no.. I’m here to talk about what [...]
EVDO laptops do not. Yesterday Verizon announced that Lenovo (aka IBM Thinkpads), HP, and I believe it was Dell, are going to make laptops with built-in connectivity to Verizon’s EVDO 3G network (1.5Mbs wherever there’s cell phone coverage in major cities)! Sony also has a laptop out right now with Cingular’s EDGE network built-in… which [...]
Just about anybody reading this blog has probably heard about Google Talk (beta) already. Nonetheless, let me recap for you. Google Talk is Google’s new foray into Instant Messaging and Voice over IP, using Jabber for the IM side and SIP for the VoIP. Currently, Google Talk users can only IM and call other Google [...]