Really bad blogger makes lots of money
Today was a historic day for fat blowhards. That’s right, Michael Arrington sold his blog Techcrunch to AOL. My immediate (and present) reaction to this news was that I really hope AOL spent less than a million to buy the site, because Techcrunch is (and always has been) a pretty mediocre site for news. My...
Playbook: iPad might finally have competition
Not so much competition for my dollars, personally, but competition among tablet computers for non-Apple fanboys. Blackberry’s Playbook looks like a pretty snazzy new entry into the tablet market. It is still aways off from being released, but it is sufficiently different that i think it could make a splash with the kinds of folks...
On phones, tablets and app stores
Here is a trend I’ve noticed. Company A (lets just call them Apple computer) designs a totally cool device or service (lets call it a phone, or an app store or a tablet computer). They have success with all of these products, and they all seem to play together nicely within an ecosystem of devices...
Online ordering but no online order status?
IKEA doesn’t believe in that for some reason. Only retailer I have run across that had an extensive online catalog and ecommerce site which does not allow you to see the status of your order online. For that matter, they don’t appear to send you receipts of transactions to email either. I hit up their...
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The need for “good” alternatives to Google
My disillusion with Google has been years in the making. I know I’ve written about it before on my blog so i won’t go into a deep dive on those thoughts. Maybe, just maybe my related posts plugin will find it so i don’t have to go searching through hundreds of posts. But, the latest...
Summer is here
I would be totally remiss not to mention how nice it is outside today. When i got up this morning, i was half expecting to see gray skies and rain. So as I woke up, found my flip flops and took the dogs out into the backyard, i couldn’t help but notice all the light,...
New words to live by?
Adam Carolla, during his last Stern show appearance, had a very interesting take on life that I could see myself (not easily) adopting. I am going to paraphrase a bit what he said because i don’t have the energy to scrub through the entire show to find the exact line. Adam more or less said...
Only Room for One Vampire Show
I think that there should be a new law passed that simply states that there can only be one vampire show on television at a time. If you like, that law can be amended to state that as long as True Blood is on (and as long as it is good and doesn’t turn into...
Don’t Be Evil huh?
I actually lost respect for Google a long time ago. Back when I worked at TCCWCBN (The Career College Which Can’t Be Named) we spent about 300k a month on Google Adwords. Back then, that was more than almost every online retailer was spending with Google. We’re talking like, 8 years ago, when Google Adwords...
Politics sucks
Lately i have become increasingly disillusioned with the state of, well, our entire government and country. It just seems to me that a 50/50 split between liberals and conservatives is absolutely devastating to our ability to get anything done, or even more fundamentally, get along with each other. I don’t remember there being a time...
