One of the beautiful things about going to CES is that you get to check out the best things from each of the products because they are in full scale "cool demo" mode. As part of that the Live Local team showed me the cool map feature which shows the palce where I grew up outside of Philadelphia. Check it out.
I was just reading an article by Walt Mossberg in the WSJ about a product called Slingbox. You can find more information at: http://www.slingmedia.com/ It is a $250 gadget which acts as a "personal broadcaster." This small device, named the Slingbox, can beam any live TV show coming into your home to an Internet-connected…
Despite the fact that I am going to be working for Microsoft next year, I think that the Mac Mini looks amazing. Couple the market dominance of the iPod and iTunes with the quality of the other software like iPhoto and the size of the device (2"x6.5"x6.5"), and you have something that has the potential to…
I just read an article written by Caroline McCarthy from Cnet analyzing the number of videos watched by people in the US in February. The number comes out to 10 billion and is a 66% growth year over year. That is just remarkable. In typical Comscore style, there are some nice juicy data tidbits tidbits…
Does anyone have any idea what this product is? i know that they have pictures of it here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/24/microsofts-origami-project/ It looks cool but I cant tell if it is going to be an Ipod competitor, a Palm competitor, a portable DVD competitor, a portable PSP competitor….? You get even less information if you…
Below is an article from Advertising Age about how MTV is shifting its online advertising sales strategy from one focused on its growing number of vertical properties to one which focuses on target "psychographic personas". I think that this makes sense for MTV since it will help them to alleviate their siloed approach to ad…
All I hear from other business school students in my classes is that Google is amazing at developing products and coming up with innovative new products. However, I have disagreed since I first saw their attempts to launch "Yahoo-like" copycat products a few years ago. Dont get me wrong, I do believe that their…