Occasionally, I’ll see a price on Amazon and wonder whether it’s really a fair price or not. Did Amazon recently hike it up? What about the 3rd-party vendor prices for new and used versions of that product? It’s hard to tell. I found a site today called CamelCamelCamel that does exactly that, and it really [...]
March 31, 2009 – 12:12 pm
I just noticed this recently, and I thought I’d shoot a little movie about it. Enjoy! Can’t see the movie above? Watch it here.
March 19, 2009 – 12:57 pm
The topic of how Twitter might make money is so popular these days that people are writing Onion-like parodies of news stories announcing Twitter’s plans. That particular story was a really popular link on Twitter today. But the question remains: how will Twitter make money? I think I know at least one of the ways [...]
The iPhone OS 3.0 presentation that happened on Tuesday really got me thinking. There were a lot of exciting announcements that are being loudly touted by the press: the arrival of a rather elegantly designed Copy and Paste to the OS, Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) support, CalDAV support, new application payment models, and device-to-device interactivity are [...]
January 25, 2009 – 11:04 pm
Exhibit A: a blog entry of mine from March 2007 titled “Passive Ambient Input” Exhibit B: This Apple patent, dated July 2007. Woo! I get a “geek karma” point for that one.
January 7, 2009 – 11:41 pm
I saw this video tonight (via @siracusa) and was absolutely blown away. The video is a bit over 20 minutes long, but it blew my mind and I want to share it with you. Watch Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration on Fora.tv I want to be absolutely clear about this: I pay [...]