At this point, everyone’s guessing about what’s supposed to happen next. How long will it take for the emergency moves by the U.S. Treasury and the G-7 to percolate through the credit markets? What kind of lift might that give to the economy - and indirectly, the IT economy? Will consumers feel confident enough to [...]
“Companies make a mistake when they assume that people will come when it’s built. But then you go to a property and find out that it’s empty,” says Barry Gilbert, who directs research for Strategy Analytics, specializing in virtual online environments.
I’ve flown my avatar into more than one Second Life property where it [...]
MacFarlane, who will receive a percentage of the ad revenue, told the newspaper that the two-minute episodes would be “animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier.”
MacFarlane is also reportedly working with advertisers to create original advertising to run with the Cavalcade content, although neither Google nor [...]
Twitterrific is also one of the more complex applications, and it takes its role as a Twitter service seriously, serving up a an environment, tweeting experience, and navigation–complete with hints!–all its own. Twitterrific has also maximized on the iPhone SDK by integrating location-awareness and camera power to let iPhone and
iPod Touch users upload images taken [...]
“We’ve been looking at a few technologies (for digital album art) and have been trying to bring these to Apple, to encourage them to bring that level of experience to the
iPod,” George White, Warner Music Group’s senior VP of strategy and product development told Wired. “A very simple demonstration that we’ve done takes the Gnarls [...]
Students in the rural town of Corinto, Colombia, work in their school’s computer lab using decade-old computers as part of a project aimed at improving local agriculture practices.
This year, though, just getting matzah has been a challenge. There’s something of a shortage in a number of places, including here in the San Francisco Bay Area. [...]
As the FCC fuddled around trying to figure out whether to approve the merger, numerous alternatives for music fans have grown stronger. Terrestrial radio’s still a dying joke, but the rise of mobile devices with anywhere connectivity is a real threat–I’m thinking about the imperfect but interesting Slacker, as well as the iPhone+Pandora combination that’s [...]
The Change Ring is a key ring inspired by Barack Obama's campaign. Naturally, its creators are pitching the product at the Democratic convention.
While start-ups were on display in the Big Tent, the delegates are benefiting from the eagerness of corporate America to participate in the political process.
The delegates from Washington state were treated to a [...]
Video is the next big thing on the Web, and more and more organizations are embracing it as the way to provide an equal experience for Web surfers who don’t necessarily have the time to watch television during the day.
But Hulu’s programming goes far beyond just good TV shows. The service has countless offerings available [...]
All of which means that much as Google has learned from the disruptive Web, it has perhaps learned more from the desktop. Microsoft, king of the desktop, makes comparatively little from its businesses outside of Windows and Office, but all the add-on value ensures that the vast majority keep feeding its cash cows to the [...]
