Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
So, I dont (ever) do reviews of hardware products, but I thought I’d hammer out a few words on a new piece of hardware that I picked up: the MSI Wind. Its part of genre of smaller sub-notebooks that were initially popularized by the Asus EEE. I decided to pick one up because I knew [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
In advance of the release of the Android OS for the T-mobile today at 10:30 EST there are a ton of questions — most of which I will not be addressing in this post. One of them, however, seems to have escaped the attention of most bloggers and that is this: will the quality and [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
I am a fan of online storage services, to the extent that I do follow things. Omnidrive is one of those services that I profiled briefly more than a year ago, and at the time I really liked it. In fact, at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2006, Venturebeat annointed Omnidrive winner of the Launchpad [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Well, solved for me anyway. Sometime a few hours after it was released, Firefox stopped becoming my regular browser, and Chrome *did*. I know — I was kind of amazed myself, in spite of all the plugins I’ve been missing. At any rate, one thing I’ve begun noticing has been getting worse: its seeming inability [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Rumours are swirling that Google may be in the process of acquiring Valve, the company that is behind the monumental success that is the Half-Life franchise. Valve also owns Steam, the *only* distribution platform on PC’s with any great pull in the industry, with an install base of 15 million users. Now, having personally used Steam [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Upon the write up and coverage of BackBlaze yesterday on TechCrunch, I decided to download and try BackBlaze, the online backup tool. As writen by others, its entering a bit of a tough arena as there are quite a few established competitors, all of whom are probably trying to grow the space. At $5 a [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
So, throughout IzeaFest, one of the folks I have hung around with (no pun intended) has been Tamar Weinberg, of Mashable, Techipedia, and LifeHacker fame. I’m just throwing out huge props to her today, as today she’s at a tech conference and being the Sabbath, she cannot use any of her usual gadgets, like her [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
So there’s an interesting debate about the tastefulness of using Twitter at a child’s funeral, with some suggesting that it is (Valleywag, living in glasshouses, apparently), others suggesting that its merely pushing the envelope of new media usage. I think this debate is really one of media versus message: I think it might be tempting to [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
So, despite magically disappearing for a while (beyond my mortal senses), I did manage to track Merlin for a few minutes to catch up with him. Observations? He is really nice: Merlin’s a genuinely nice guy. That’s the vibe that I got. He seemed to care about the people around him, and was quite giving — [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
So as someone who fancies himself as a web2.0 geek, I was really looking forward to hear Merlin “43 Folders” Mann speak today at IzeaFest. Kudos to him for tailoring his talk to the audience, which was varied in terms of experience levels, and towards the whole point of the conference — i.e. “how to [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Ted Murphy ended day one of IzeaFest today by revealing a few new features of SocialSpark (the ability to donate proceeds to designated charities, an affiliate program, and what seems like an evolving desire to improve transparency amongst bloggers — good on him for the first and last of these things), but also a new [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
So, several months ago, when I was blogging (a lot) more, Ted Murphy of PayPerPost Izea fame asked me if I’d like to participate in his yearly IzeaFest, once known as “Posticon”. I’ve been pretty frank about my opinions about paid postings and at times they haven’t been … well, pretty. So why am I here [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
So I’ve been using Chrome for a little while. I still likes it, but there are a few things that have come to my attention that require me updating my original post. One retraction of sorts, and two other things that greatly annoy (and maybe its just me). 1. Chrome isn’t as “small” as I thought: [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Nothing to see here except for non-sequitur humour that passes as “funny”. I can’t believe Microsoft paid him $10M to star in this dreck. Or, rather, I can’t believe that Jerry Seinfeld wants to attach his name to this kind of work for *any* kind of money. Shoes? Clowns? Cake? Is that supposed to be [...]
Deep Jive Interests (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
My laptop is running XP, and its a bit of an oldish machine. Pentium M. 500 MB RAM. 80 gig hard drive. Its running a little slower these days — seems to slow right down the instant you right click on a folder, or open up the control panel. In fact, its so slow I [...]
