Don’t comment about commentary. No more free ride for Comedy Central. Hell.com is pricey.

October 30, 2006

Sorry, but you can’t comment at the conference about commentary. Yes, ironies of ironies, but Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a company responsible for tracking consumer generated media, content and commentary, had a conference on this very subject, yet didn’t allow anyone to report or blog about it. The days of free YouTube promotion for The Daily Show […]

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Sony’s sad profits. More whores on MySpace and Facebook. And who cares about Oracle OpenWorld?

October 27, 2006

While Radio Shack has figured out a way to survive after you return its sub-par electronics, Sony hasn’t. Their battery recall fiasco has put a whopping 94% dent into their profits. I’m sure the delay of the Playstation 3 was party to the profit decline. Could MySpace and Facebook be imploding from their own success? […]

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Cell phone lowers sperm count? Buy now, Vista later.

October 26, 2006

Could your cell phone be lowering your sperm count? According to a study by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, men who use their cell phone more than 4 hours a day have lower sperm counts, less motile sperm, and more irregularly shaped sperm. The only thing that is quite large is their phone bill. […]

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Firefox 2.0. Veeker. Google Custom Search.

October 25, 2006

Mozilla launches Firefox 2.0. The update lets you customize your free browser with special add-ons. To thank Mozilla for all they’ve stolen, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team sent Firefox a congratulatory cake. For mobile videographers, sign up for Veeker. A mobile video sharing site that goes live today. Shoot a video with your phone. Upload it […]

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Scary Yahoo! videos. Bush and "The Google." Google lawsuits.

October 24, 2006

Unfortunately, Yahoo doesn’t have any video of their botched attempt to buy YouTube, but equally scary is their Second Annual Halloween Videoblog Festival. Send in your scariest video or just attend their Santa Monica party where the main attraction will be Amanda Congdon, former host of Rocketboom. As if referring to an interstate in Southern […]

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Boy Scouts and the MPAA. The VC "20 Minute Rule." SJ Mercury News layoffs

October 23, 2006

As if being a Boy Scout wasn’t nerdy enough, the Motion Picture Association of America or MPAA is trying to stop the cultivation of digital thieves by offering Boy Scouts a badge for “Respecting copyrights.” Thomas Friedman will tell you that digital content has made the world flat. In Silicon Valley’s world of VC money, […]

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The "New" features in IE 7. We don’t want free Wi-Fi.

October 19, 2006

Windows released Internet Explorer 7 today. Don’t get so excited over the “new” features like tabbed browsing which have already been a part of Firefox and many second-tiered browsers for more than six years. Free Wi-Fi in San Francisco may take a little longer than we expected. Last night a town hall meeting degenerated into […]

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iPod with Windows virus. DSL for $10 a month. Are you an Internet addict?

October 18, 2006

And on the tails of Steve Jobs’ comment that Microsoft’s Zune won’t help you get laid, Apple admits that some of the recently shipped Video iPods are packaged with a Windows virus. That’s a free pre-installed download. But don’t rush to buy the Video iPod yet. Rumor is the widescreen touch version of the Video […]

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Zune: The Date Killer? Google’s solar. Computer commercials. Free Wi-Fi at the airport.

October 17, 2006

If you buy Microsoft’s Zune it’ll kill your chances of meeting a girl. That’s according to Steve Jobs who tried to deflate the value of the supposed iPod killer’s new Wi-Fi music broadcast system. To fight rising electricity bills, Google’s installing a massive solar electricity system with enough power to supply 1,000 homes. Take a […]

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Me on KQED-Google purchases YouTube

October 16, 2006

My appearance on KQED’s “This Week in Northern California” talking about Google’s purchase of YouTube.

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