‘Tech’ Archive

CEO’s That Inspire Create Awesome Reputations for the Companies They Lead July 29, 2009 No Comments

Probably the thing that I admire most about certain high level company executives is the way that they put themselves out into the public sphere and share information they’ve learned over their careers.  After all, most CEO’s of top technology companies have either founded the companies they lead or were brought in at an early [...]

Today in Technology: Amazon Acquires Zappos – Commentary, Video, etc… July 27, 2009 No Comments

As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Amazon acquired internet shoe and clothing retailer Zappos.com for over $900 million late last week. This is obviously a great exit for Zappos and a seemingly excellent purchase for Amazon. Wall Street liked the purchase as well, as Amazon’s stock jumped almost $5 on Thursday when [...]

Today in Technology: Amazon to Acquire Netflix? The Battle for Streaming Movies in Your Living Room July 13, 2009 No Comments

We all know what’s coming to living rooms across the globe in the next few years: DVD’s are dying and streaming media will rule your living room.  We’re already seeing the effect with Netflix, as many of their movies can be watched straight from your computer streamed through their web interface.  You can do the [...]

Today in Technology: Thoughts on the Google Chrome OS Play July 8, 2009 No Comments

LOADS of buzz on the Google Chrome OS announcement on the web today. Most likely if you read tech news, you’ve heard about it. Hell if you read any news at all you’ve probably at least seen the headline. Google is adding the Linux Kernel and all if it’s underlying functionality to [...]

Today in Technology: Firefox Mania Strikes Again – Crosses the 30% Market Share Line July 1, 2009 1 Comment

In case you didn’t know, Mozilla yesterday released Firefox version 3.5 – it’s first major upgrade of the browser since last year’s v3.0 release.  What’s getting so much press today is the amount of downloads it’s getting, and how that buzz has enabled the browser to cross the 30% line in market share (according to [...]

Today in Technology: The MySpace Mess – Why MySpace Should Exclusively be a Music Site June 23, 2009 No Comments

Do you still have a MySpace account?  I cancelled mine almost immediately after Facebook let me in, and haven’t looked back.  The whole time I was using MySpace, I found the UI to be pretty poor from a design perspective.  The one gem of value I did (and still do) get from the service is [...]

Today in Technology: Checking in on New Real Time Search Services Collecta and Scoopler June 19, 2009 No Comments

Lots of buzz around real time search these days, and lots of venture dollars to boot.  During the past presidential election, I had what was perhaps my best exposure to the possibilities of real time search with election.twitter.com (down now obviously).  The premise of the service was to stream (in real-time) any and all tweets [...]