Best Buy is having a rough time lately, so to improve things they are offering 20% off on iTunes gift cards! The thought here has to be that they will make up this loss by getting you to buy more stuff at their store. The problem is that we are just going to buy these cards for 20% off and then spend them on music and Apps at iTunes. I wonder ...
Continue ReadingNice wrap up of the Facebook and all huge tech IPO’s. Reminds me of being at Limelight when they went public. The Chili Covered Porcupine line at the end sums it up well. Four short links: 2 February 2012 – OReilly Radar.
Continue ReadingNegotiations with the carriers:Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them?Microsoft: Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones.Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it. via Daring Fireball Linked List: U.S. Carriers Dont Want ...
Continue ReadingMy good friend Melissa Sherowski is not just a well adjusted listener of drum and bass, she is also a darn fine painter. Here I am linking to one of her acrylic paintings from her Expansion and Flux series. I was able to attend the premiere of this series in fancy dancy Vail Colorado, its was mos def. You should click below to purchase this ...
Continue ReadingSo there is a story going on about the Canadian Tar Sands, a pipeline, and environmentalists who want to stop it from happening. Sounds like more lefty liberal hippies trying to kill the American Dream and unicorns? Well if you don’t read further into the story this is a nice spoonfed way of looking at the situation, but what if you take ...
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This is great writing from Brain S Hall – Google are Pussies – Cached Copy. Pull no punches and lay into the fucks: Google has not innovated in a decade. But, they’ve been in many fights. Against relatively tiny, unarmed combatants. Now when they have a real fight on their hand, they run to the government. As I mentioned ...
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Google is a bit different from Apple and MSFT. Those two sell a product. Google gives everything away. The users dont have to even create an account to use Google Search. They even give away one of the most popular mobile operating systems in the world. Google is the top of the heap, everyone is their customer. If you aren’t using their ...
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What an awesome day today! Had a great lunch with an old pal and made a number of connections that are going to be highly productive. Then I am home jamming to some jammy jams with my lady and I go to ‘Like’ an old DJ Shadow song on Ping and I get this:
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I may be too hungover but when I did a search this morning for my new favorite song of the minute(We no speak americano, thanks Greg and his Hanover Coffee) the formatting of the search results at Google were totally different. Maybe I have a speech impediment or something but this is quite the change. I wonder whats going on?
Continue ReadingSometimes your lunch gets ruined by an asshole like my buddy Greg, so I put him on camera and let him show the world how smart he isnt. Seriously though if you get offended by any of this you need to go have a beer or 18.
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