Apparently Songbird developers flock to websites whenever their product is mentioned. That’s fine by me. Developer Nivi has commented in my previous post regarding my non-acceptance of the Songbird build: We may be doing a bad job communicating the (eventual) Songbird value proposition. Songbird isn’t supposed to replace your web browser. It is supposed to […]
Bill Gates moves from Microsoft to charity
Link: CNN.com This was unexpected news. Bill Gates has decided to hand over the lion’s share of Microsoft’s reins and concentrate on the Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation charity he and his wife built. Good for him. Let’s hope Microsoft continues to make people’s lives easier while Bill and his wife continue to make people’s […]
Songbird isn’t singing to me
In a previous post, I referred to the Songbird Firefox build as "an unfortunate waste of code." This comment prompted Rob Lord–one of the principal Songbird developers–to ask me in the comments of that post why I felt that way towards their product. I guess the wonders of Technorati keep even this obscure little blog […]
You need bombs for world peace, right?
Link: Physorg.com The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design America’s first new nuclear bomb in two decades. You know, I was just thinking the other day that we really needed a new nuclear weapon design. Critics say the […]
My Flock experience – part the First
Day one using Flock, and I must admit, I'm coming away impressed so far. Flock's integration with various forms of social "web 2.0" functionality and awareness makes my Firefox implementation look pitiful. A messy mash of extensions and bookmarks that is nothing but clutter. Flock is clean and personalized to an alarming degree. I'm actually […]
Google moves Picasa from PC to web
Link: Picasa Web Looks like Google has finally started moving from PC-centric thinking–overtaking the user desktop–to web-based thinking–overtaking the internets. I use Picasa, and I love the program for its astounding ability to keep my thousands of photos on my PC organized. It’s easy to find the pictures I want and edit them, reduce red-eye, […]
Will Firefox users flock to Flock?
Link: Flock The new kid on the block, Flock, is supposedly launching their first public beta sometime this afternoon/evening/night (version 0.7 — internally referred to as "Cardinal"). The theory behind the new browser is basically web 2.0. It's social. It's efficient. It's integrated. Bookmarks are stored on del.icio.us and displayed within the browser via a […]
alt.NPR’s Press Start gaming podcast
Link: alt.NPR: Press Start What happens when you take a game media commentator and a comedian and throw them into a podcast together with NPR.org systems manager as host? You get alt.NPR's new bi-weekly podcast, Press Start. Press Start is hosted by NPR's Robert Holt, who currenly serves in the capacity of reviewing video games […]
So, why are we so excited for Nintendo’s online support?
Link: Nintendo Players I had never even heard of the Nintendo Players website before I came across it. They have a god-awful looking website, but also a very interesting article that looks at all of the officially announced games and what online capabilities–if any–have been revealed for them. The effect when all of this is […]
PS3 launch will definitely NOT be fun
Link: GamesFirst! Looks like the launch day shortages of PS3’s that Sony announced are going to be worse than expected. An internal Gamestop email expressed concern over how many PS3s their chain (which is the largest videogame retailer and includes Ebgames as well) would have available. A local store that received between 50 and 100 […]