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Apple said it was an update. They applied the update and it didn’t fix the problem. Apple is still saying its about the update.
Now a woman in Alabama sues Apple for false Advertisement. Jessica Alena Smith filed the lawsuit stating that the advertising said the iPhone 3G was suppose to double the speed of the original iPhone. There is no report of how much she’s suing for.
Part of the world is already in this Superstitious day. The rest will follow shortly. 8-08-08 will also be an interesting day for many.
The Summer Beijing Olympics will start at 8:08:08 on 8-08-08. It’s not true 8:08 depending on how you look at the clocks. It will be officially 20:08:08, but then again, halfway around the country, it WILL be 8:08:08….
Hasbro has made Scrabulous take down the popular knock-off game. Since then, the makers of Scrabulous have changed the rules, colors and board a bit and changed the name to “Wordscraper”. In the meantime, Hasbro makes its own Facebook App of the popular game. But you know, it’s not the only games on the block. In this article we’ll take a look at a few of the games you can add to your profile.
No Comments »I was going through a few Social Network sites today, especially microblogging. Each one has their own positives and negatives. Of course we all have been exposed to Twitter and their problems. Something I’ve noticed they have been working out. The down times are not as frequent, although I do notice that sometimes I don’t get twitters of people I am following.
With Twitter not being the “End all Microblogger”, I check the other sites. Plurk, Pownce, Friendfeed, tumblr,identi.ca, etc. The reality is that I am in a Social Networking job. The average user might be on one social network or another. I need to connect with all, so I need to be on all.
No Comments »I am reminded of the Billy Joel tune “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. In the song he chronicles history in about 4 minutes 40 seconds. The chorus says “We didn’t start the fire, It was always burning since the world’s been turning.
Well, we DID start the Internet, and we DID start Web 2.0 and Social Networking. Now it’s ignited and it’s time to fight it.
With new ideas coming out daily and web sites popping up left and right, it’s confusing to know what is going to be the next big thing and what’s gonna fizzle. Better yet, whats going to mess this whole thing up by taking it in a new direction.
6 Comments »People are reporting errors when they update. Updates appear to vanish on the web (requires a page reload) and clients like Twitterrific & Twirl aren’t able to update at all. We’re working on a fix and intend to deploy it today.
Update (9:42a): One of our slave databases went down 10 minutes ago. We have to put the site into maintenance mode while we bring it back up. Thanks for your patience.
This is the same issue we see and hear again and again. While it’s understandable that a website can have errors, a “slave database” should not be the one thing that takes the whole system down. They say “We are working on problems”, but do we see results?
I saw this as I was driving out of my local YMCA on Wed. It was sad to see these items at the curb, but it also shows me how tech has changed. So I snapped, and thought I would share.
I didn’t have a TV with remote until 6 years ago. The TV’s we had were fine with me, mostly because I didn’t watch too much TV. When my main 19″ died, I went to the local pawn shop and baught a 20″ TV with remote. It now sits in the basement as the spare TV, but really – I watch even less television than I did before.
I DO have a VCR in my room. No Tivo or other DVR. If you don’t watch TV, you don’t need to record anything. Yeah, I miss a couple shows but then again, I can usually go online and watch them from the networks’ website. The VCR is technically a TV tuner, and it was also connected so I could convert a few home movies into DVD format. Otherwise, see my comment above about TV’s.
This shows us the end of an era is fast approaching. Analog is 8 months from dead. A TV like this won’t be worth a hill of beans without a HD converter box. But then again, I already have converter boxes controlling my televisions’ content.
No flatscreen yet (except for my computer monitors). I will eventually have to break down and get one, but why do it now? My guess is Flatscreens will be the gift to give this holiday season and prices will be low.
Still, this picture definitely sums up the direction we are going.
Filed under the “Now I’ve seen it all” category. It’s OpenCola – the softdrink you can make and change the formula. It was suppose to be an “example” of Open Source, however someone took it to heart and ultimately started making the soda-pop.
If you are bored and need something to do, why not make soda? The base formula is on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola. No word if there is a Chocolate-Cherry Coffee-beer flavor yet, but I bet if you put your mind to it, you can make one.
Meanwhile, Kinetic Organic Interface (KOI) is working on some cool interface ideas for soda cans themselves. Their “Claytronic” system gives the opportunity to actually put rss feeds and movie trailers on the sides of a can. You will also have the ability to flip through screens, turn down volume, etc.
Together, you can have a full experience with your soda, from making it, to watching a movie trailer while drinking it. Truely an innovative step.
2 Comments »“103,288,431 websites with nothing on…”
It’s the Bruce Springsteen song with a different twist. Of course when Bruce performed that song in 1992, the general populous wasn’t on the internet. I would make a guess that the majority didn’t even know what the internet was. Of course that all has changed. We use the internet everyday to buy, sell, inform, rant, rave, rate and surf.
The number at the beginning of this article is the amount of websites that are active on the internet today. Over half a million were registered today while 338 million were deleted and about 350 thousand either expired or were transferred (stats from Domaintools.com). While the average person surfs about 5-20 websites in a sitting, where do they go? Better yet, will they ever see your site and for how long?
2 Comments »A lot of tech companies traded like a high stakes poker game. Of course this is not unusal for companies to buy other companies – It is interesting to see who bought what. It makes for the big question: Will the new parent company keep their new child or will we see it in a dumpster next week?
Let’s start with the big one: HP buys EDS. On Tuesday, HP laid down 12.6 Billion to purchase Electronic Data Systems. This is a move to catapult HP into a position to compete with IBM’s markets.
Created in 1962 by Ross Perot – the Billionaire that ran for President in 1992 (and took about 18.9 percent of the vote). Ross Started EDS after departing from IBM. His first big contract was in computerizing Medicare Records from the Government. In 1968 EDS went public and shares went from $16 to $160.
No Comments »I have 5 great spots I go to if I need to get out of the house, get something to eat or drink and surf the web. Yes, 2 of those spots serve alcohol, but it’s not about the drinking. It’s all about getting out of the house and working.
Of course, WiFi is important to only a select few that like to take their laptops out and work or surf while having a bite to eat. With more people switching to mobile devices – whether a laptop, smartphone or Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) – people want to know where they can go to get connected. Even if it means just getting directions, checking over the hours of a store you want to visit, or just checking your email – from home or the office.
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