I had to skip this year's Le Web conference, and I have to say, as much as I enjoyed it last year, on Monday I was so happy not to be jet lagged (again) and cold. (Well, colder than it is in my non-heated house. Brrrrrrr!) Of course, when I travel to conferences I never get the posh treatment of Michael Arrington, who has apparently picked a fight with Loic about American vs. European entrepreneurs. Loic answers back here. As someone who has gone on four trips to Europe in the last year and has met with hundreds of entrepreneurs,...
The Soyo FreeStyler HS11 wireless headphones are dope pretty much any way you slice it. The first and most important bit is that I would describe the aesthetic as “presidential,” “fresh and clean,” or “straight G’d out.” They are wireless from 80-300(though we reported closer to 80-100) and work with the iPhone 3G. The HS11s are also compatible with Bluetooth capable cell phones and laptops. The Soyo Freestyler HS11s come with 5-6 hours of battery life, a built in microphone, and are Skype friendly. It’s a relief to know that I can now avoid the annoyance of shoving my...
So it looks like Khloe Kardashian is PETA’s latest anti-fur flavor of the month. I guess they ran out of fashionable females who were willing to strip on cue, hadn’t been convicted of drunk driving this year, and — oh, I dunno — actually practices what PETA preaches. What PETA is really saying is: “Don’t wear fur, and YOU TOO can grow up to be a spoiled 24-year-old dipstick who drives drunk, blows off her court-mandated alcohol education classes, blames it all on a jam-packed Celebrity Apprentice shooting schedule, and gets sent to jail.” Am I missing anything here? Oh...
In an effort to remind people that it had a horse in the identity management race, MySpace last night announced MySpace ID – essentially a rename of the MySpace Data Availability project launched earlier this year to allow users to login with their MySpace credentials and import data on third-party sites. The news comes on the heels of last week’s near-simultaneous launches of Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect, two similar products from MySpace competitors (though the latter, it turns out, is more of an ally) While much has been written about the technical differentiators between these services –...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Apple"Welcome to Audrey." With those three words, I experienced my first Internet appliance. 3Com's Audrey was meant to deliver lightweight "internet snacking" from a user's kitchen, and offered email and internet access, a calendar and contacts database, plus synchronization of up to two Palm devices. It had a touch-sensitive screen, wireless keyboard and a clear plastic stylus that would glow green when new mail arrived.Unfortunately for 3Com, the Audrey was launched immediately prior to the .com collapse, and was discontinued just seven months into its initial run. I picked one up on eBay a...
As part of the Le Web conference in Paris, News Corp.'s MySpace announced that it has taken a deeper plunge into the data portability pool. The social network has announced its support for Google Friend Connect, which launched in full last week, and is using the standard to help power a new set of tools called the MySpace Open Platform. In conjunction, MySpace has ditched the distinctly unsexy moniker of "Data Availability" in favor of the new sobriquet "MySpaceID" for its universal log-in project. The Open Platform, in addition to MySpaceID, encompasses its OpenSocial-compatible app platform and the Post To...
Post from: Royal HeHe2-ness! A blog that advocates Linux and Open Source. 7 Cool (and Functional) Android Applications [Video Tour] Its been almost a month since my 2 brothers and I received our G1 phones from ebay, and truth to be told, it really exceeded our expectations. True we have our gripes, which we will detail in a future blog (stay tuned), but our final vote is, that its the best phone we had the pleasure to use. Truth to be told, the Android app store has a long way to go to rival iTunes, but still there are some...
Everyone knows the stock market is tanking, but how is that affecting individual investors? Social investing site Cake Financial released data today shedding some light on how its users are coping with the crumbling economy. The answer is pretty much what you’d expect: Not that well. At the end of November, individual investors are down 42.25 percent for the year, which is in the same neighborhood as many market indices. During that same period, the NASDAQ fell 42.7 percent, the Dow Jones fell 34.7 percent and the S&P 500 fell 40 percent. And not surprisingly, investment activity has slowed, with...
Check out some of the latest makeuseof discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. (1) ClasssMaker - Easily create quiz tests and invite others to participate. You can create multiple choice, true/false, short answer and other quiz types. Read more: ClassMarker - Free Online Test Creator. (2) FaceMaker - Online face maker tool that allows you to create cartoon-like pictures of yourself and others. Read more: FaceMaker - Make Cartoon of Yourself. (3) Stuff Alert - Get free...
Virtual goods were all the rage a while ago, but nowadays I don’t hear that much about them. Perhaps everyone got bored of Second Life, companies stopped opening virtual headquarters in virtual worlds, and WoW players…well, they’re a lost cause anyway, tormented creatures always destined to live in the shadow (also, Blizzard does not allow off-site trade with virtual money or goods from the game). This doesn’t mean that the marketplace for virtual goods does not exist; it’s just not that hip anymore. PlaySpan wants to change this, and they’ve launched the PlaySpan Virtual Goods Marketplace which will contain items...
E-commerce juggernaut eBay is under fire because of a holiday giveaway contest gone awry. On Tuesday 25 November, eBay announced its $1 Holiday Doorbusters deals promotion, giving away 100 gifts ranging from jewelry, clothing, digital cameras, GPS devices to a brand-new Chevrolet Corvette for a $1 fixed price on a daily basis. The only catch is that there’s no announcement on when these items are released or in which category they will be in. But cheaters came up with a clever way of winning deals on an automated basis by running scripts to continuously bid on items for $1. That...
It’s going to be a very happy holidays for someone with at least three grand burning a hole in their pockets, which is fine, because they can trade their old, burned, sad little pockets for Danielle Radcliffe’s. Specifically, the pockets stitched into the blue jeans he wore in Peter Shaffer’s Equus, currently being auctioned off on Ebay by Broadway Cares. In addition to receiving a pair of his pre-loved pantalones, the winner will get a VIP pair of seats to a performance, a backstage tour (points if you wear the item in question while meeting him, and ask him to...
