I don’t know about you, but this feels pretty damn corporate and cold too me… not like it should be… fun! I realize the service is Apple’s but the HP site certainly stays well within the corporate standard. You’d think this would be a case where you might want to bend the rules a bit… … Read more‘HP Music’ goes live, Apple offers iTunes for HP
Here’s his list of “required reading” [Doc Searls]
AP – As spam-fighting tools become increasingly aggressive, e-mail recipients risk losing newsletters and promotions they’ve requested. [Yahoo! News – Technology – Spam] A new study attempts to quantify missed bulk mailings. Return Path, a company that monitors e-mail performance for online marketers, found that nearly 19 percent of e-mail sent by its customers never … Read moreStudy: Spam Filters Often Lose E-Mails
Even with a $1 salary and no bonus last year, Steve Jobs is doing alright. [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
Just doing a bit of window shopping at Amazon and noticed a link to make campaign contributions… what an amazing use of the 1-Click tech.
New subscribers to high-speed Internet access care more about a low price than fast connection speeds, which is exactly what DSL providers want to hear. [CNET News.com – Communications]
The phone giant begins offering unlimited local and long distance Internet phone service for $40 a month, a move that’s expected to roil the telephone industry. [CNET News.com]
Caught this last night as well… I was actually surprised to see Quicktime get such a low rating comparably… have to spend more time with Divx. the few movies and torrents I have seen have been of excellent quality. I just can’t quite work out some of the encoding and conversion details on my own … Read moreCodecs Reviewed
Good advice for anyone rolling their own through the use of SpamAssasin… I started looking at the patterns of what was getting through SpamAssassin to try to fight it more effectively. I ended up taking a couple of steps that are rather drastic. They’re certainly not recommended for everyone, but I think a certain subset … Read moreNew Rules for Spam
Howard Stern is not talking today. He started his show with a brilliantly edited montage of words from the news and from Congress yesterday about free speech and stopping it. He mixed it with music of protest and freedom. And we heard a message he left for his producer, Gary Dell’Abate, in the middle of … Read moreThe Daily Stern: Radio silence…
If you like the style of Christopher Guest and Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, you’ll dig this one… This is a hilarious short movie:http://www.zefrank.com/redalert/index_better.html [Mecurious]
I’ve certainly commented on this before… TiVO is a great product and while I am a fan and was an early customer, our home has switched over to the Time Warner DVR for a few basic reasons. First, it integrates perfectly with our fantastic interactive program guide. Time Warner services and installs the box and … Read moreBW: TiVo’s Growth Picture: Still a Little Fuzzy
Not sure why I was initially reluctant to load this, but the PDF Plugin is a fantastic addition to browsers on OS X. I recall the Adobe version of a plugin on OS 9, which needed to load the full app in the background and really just display the file in the browser window….and yeah … Read morePDF Plugin
We can only hope that other aggregators (and platforms) support enclosures so nicely… Andrew: “I’ve finished an initial version of a RSS+BitTorrent integration tool for Radio Userland’s news aggregator. This is beta software.” [Scripting News]
For the first time, more people in a U.S. city use high-speed connections than pokey dialup to surf the Net. Other major cities are close behind. [Wired News]
David Pogue reviews the Archos AV320 ($336), and the RCA Lyra RD2780 ($420), the early and almost good enough AV players… I like the way this stuff is shaping up, but will definitely hold out for the iPod version, even if it doesn’t come from Apple (but, pretty please…). Video is easy to create, hard … Read moreHand-Helds That Offer Video to Go
Seems that Unicast’s Full Screen – replay your existing 30 second spot – is a hit with advertisers and apparently even the viewers. I for one am glad I don’t have Windows running as WMP 9 is required to see these… I wonder whether the people who watch don’t know to skip (if that’s even … Read moreWe Interrupt This Search to Show a Full-Motion Ad
gotta love tracks like this This Kleptones (now, that’s a band-name) of the Flaming Lips’s “Are You a Hypnotist”, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” and Public Enemy’s “By the Time I Get to Arizona” kicks ass. 4.7 MP3 Link [Boing Boing]
Just when you thought they were going to be Time Warner Cable only… The Internet service provider on Thursday is expected to announce a partnership to offer broadband Internet service through Covad Communications Group. [CNET News.com – Entertainment & Media] The partnership is different than AOL’s previous attempts to sell customers a content-and-access bundle for … Read moreAOL to offer Covad DSL
Veo has cancelled their planned 1.3 megapixel SDIO camera. The Veo Photo Traveler 130 S was to be released in Februray for most palmOne Tungsten handhelds. [PalmInfocenter]