BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Liz Gannes at GigaOM writes a story on Evan Williams and Odeo, and Williams confession at the recent Web Apps of the Future yak fest. Williams talks about how he royally screwed up with his startup, Odeo, burning through it sounds like millions, hiring a staff of 14, all to build […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What the heck, it’s Friday so I might as well push Nick Carr’s post up the techmeme flag pole. I can agree with Carr on the following: Whatever the flaws of Microsoft Office, most end users are comfortable with it – and they have little motivation to overturn the apple cart. What […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Since Apple released the new iTunes, movie downloads, games, and television show resolution changes, I’ve been testing them all out on my Windows PC. Originally I had my main iTunes installation and music on my Mac; it has now been converted to purely photography and development, which means I needed […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out Amazon’s Unbox, and unlike others didn’t have problems downloading a rental and running it. I was able to connect my TV via VGA (my television has a PC input) and the viewing experience was quite good. Not as good as a DVD, but good enough. However, the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The reason Amazon’s Unbox connects to the internet to uninstall is that everyone’s local objects are mirrored at Amazon. To disable an account, it has to be disabled both at Amazon and on the PC. The only problem is, the uninstall disables the validation of the PC as the first part of […]