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Heading to MEET 2006

October 1, 2006

I’ll be attending Forbes’ MEET 2006 conference (Media | Electronic Entertainment | Technology) in Beverly Hills. The theme of the October 24-25 conference will be: Reaping Riches in the Media and Entertainment Revolution.

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Flowing with Productivity

October 1, 2006

Michael Buffington wrote a very inspiring post about getting into flow and what techniques help him become and remain productive throughout the day.
In this age of multitasking, Digg, YouTube, del.icio.us and so many other sources of information to keep us distracted throughout the day, it’s imperative that we find ways to concentrate on the real [...]

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Mark Cuban says Only a moron would buy YouTube

September 29, 2006

It seems Mark Cuban has no love for video sharing website YouTube. According to this Reuters article, Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York that “anyone who buys YouTube is a moron.”
Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for several billion dollars back in the dot com era, feels that the potential for lawsuits [...]

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Revision3 finally goes live

September 28, 2006

After several days of server errors, it seems Revision3 is finally live, sporting a brand new and very cool look. Gone is the “Sign Up” page… which is interesting, but more on that later. According to their own About page,
“Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike [...]

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Microsoft launches Soapbox; invitation-only Beta

September 19, 2006

Microsoft has just launched it’s answer to YouTube, called MSN Soapbox.
However, it’s still in a limited by-invite-only beta, so all you’ll see is a dancing butterfly:

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The Paris Hilton School of Blogging

September 19, 2006

So there I was, wide awake in my bed, wondering if the Crestor was keeping me from catching some much needed Zzzzs, when I decided to scramble over to my HP Media Center PC and check what was new on Digg. Over on my number two display, a trusty old 17″ BenQ FP731, my RSS [...]

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Can Google News (or ESPN) predict the future?

September 1, 2006

A funny thing happened today… I was searching Google News for tennis, wanting to read up on Andre Agassi’s amazing five-setter last night against Marco Baghdatis at the US Open.
Amazingly enough, second among the search results was the following text:
“ESPN: On late Thursday night Andre Agassi bowed out of the US Open…

 … following his third [...]

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Solving the MacBook’s lack of a Right-Click Button

September 1, 2006

When will Apple embrace the right-click button? Even though Apple’s operating system supports right-click, their laptops notoriously lack a right-click button.
I’m not a Mac developer (don’t even own a Mac yet) but I have an idea that could solve the problem:
The Mac’s Touchpad already detects a number of events like scrolling, two-finger scrolling, tap and [...]

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Apple Stores should embrace XP

September 1, 2006

It’s a simple idea: every Apple Store should have one computer running Windows XP via Parallels Desktop software.
Why? I believe it would help convince wannabe-switchers to take that final step and purchase a Mac.
When the first MacIntels came out, I began seriously thinking about switching from my all XP set-up. Running the Vista Beta simply [...]

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Usability 101: Wasting the customer’s time

August 31, 2006

I’ll begin this series on usability mistakes with a perfect example of “how to waste your customer’s time and turn them away.”
DADAmobile is a web service for downloading games, ringtones and other content to your mobile phone. I was trying to download a game for my Treo 650 mobile phone when I encountered the following:
The [...]

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