Interesting posts, week 10!
September 14th, 2007 • interesting posts
Sounds pretty cool given Tim’s position on the publishing world.
A short little write-up on Lifehacker (let’s face it, they don’t “write” any more, it’s so sad. I miss the old LH where there was original and useful information) on how you should arrange your tons of power cords
These ringtones are combined with a CD single — a format that’s been pretty dead since 2000 (and was dead when I worked in a CD store 8 years ago) — and cost you $6 or $7. Why? Obviously it costs a lot of money to make their $0.03 CDs (or maybe they should stop paying terrible artists inflated salaries)
I just watched this show for the first time on Sunday night and I was fairly impressed. Miranda Cosgrove has well outgrown being “Evil Megan” on Drake & Josh where she began stealing the show once Nick made Josh drop about 100lbs and Drake’s the goofy brother whose role on the show is now unneeded (see Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World for one of the best examples of “obsoletion by stupidity” in sitcoms). The show iCarly uses a lot of predictable situations but their use of user generated media to flesh out portions of the show is its strongest point.
This is a good chuckle given some of the things MSFT says such as “Google has a history of releasing incomplete products, calling them beta software” (I cut off the last bit). Like Microsoft hasn’t done this in the last 7 years (Window ME and Vista, I’m talking about you), but at least Google acknowledges these products as beta and LABELS them as such. Seems Microsoft is really worried about the pressure the ol’ Goog is putting on them.
Shalini never fails to find really interesting science news but this is something else. That scary bacteria we’re all afraid of could actually protect our teeth!
It seems that Microsoft isn’t the only one trying to make swiss cheese out of Google’s Enterprise effort. This was a surprise given Zimbra’s just now getting their web apps off the ground with recent funding. Still no word from Zoho, but I suspect we’ll hear from them too as they’re Google’s only true online competitor for the comprehensive online office right now.
Why does it take someone like Google to spark real interest in this? If there were more charitable companies giving away money, I think we’d be closer to dumping our oil dependency.
Mr. Gonzalez can articulate this much better than I can.
This might be the last post like this for a bit, there’s just very little interesting news that I’m finding right now so this takes a lot longer than normal to do.