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Finally a traditional media company gets the idea that the Internet can be a positive and not a negative for its business.  They are showing this newfound prowess by allowing users to view any of the NCAA March Madness games on its website at:  http://www.ncaasports.com   The great thing for CBS is that users will still…

The product that I worked on defining the long-term strategy for this summer is out and available for everyone to use.  V 1.0 is a server-side bookmark manager which allows you to easily save, tag, and search for favorites that you have saved.  For those of you that get overwhelmed by the number of bookmarks…

Although I have been saying that Yahoo! should not be in the content creation business since the day that they hired Lloyd Braun, it is nice to hear them say the same thing in the press today.  The internet has not yet evolved to the point where people are ready to watch long shows on…

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…

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 read this article from February’s issue of Wired magazine.  It profiles a guy who works for Mayfield partners who is focused on the technologies of the bubble that might actually be viable now that we have some of the "bubble" promises such as broadband acess, wifi, etc…   http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.02/mayfield.html?pg=1&topic=mayfield&topic_set=  

Could it be?  I cant believe that Ipod keeps creating technologies every four months which are so destructive to their existing userbase, but it seems to be working based off of their market share.  Plus, this is DAMN COOL.   http://www.random-good-stuff.com/random_good_stuff/2006/02/new_ipod_video_.html   However, I also agree that Apple has gotten so arrogant with regards to…

An article which hopefully will help the mass public infatuated with Google understand that Google really isnt that great a company. The article goes through a product by product analysis of how innovative the products are, how popular they are, and how much attention Google pays to them. It clearly shows that while Google touts innovation as…

The power that a killer application like Itunes has in creating demand for new technologies is amazing.  Since they released V4.9 two days ago, there have been 1MM new people that have subscribed to Podcasts.  It is a definite lesson to software makers on establishing that core base of users that you can market services…