Powerset Opens Up
I had the pleasure of attending a small gathering at Powerset’s office in San Francisco this evening to get a preview of what’s to come from the highly publicized start up. A lot of interesting demonstrations were given and we heard a lot about the technology and platform they’re building.
Powerset is based around Natural [...]
Babble Babble Baeble Babelgum
In keeping with projections that Babelgum is going to position itself content-wise between the mainstream (Joost) and the torrent of questionable quality user-generated content (YouTube), yesterday the upstart Internet TV provider announced a partnership with Baeble Music. Baeble Music provides high-quality concert video of up-and-coming bands. Despite the similar names they’re two [...]
VeohTV vs. Joost Comparison
Today Veoh, an Internet video site, has announced its upcoming VeohTV application. VeohTV will be an Internet TV offering in competition with highly publicized Joost and challenger Babelgum. I’ve already compared Babelgum and Joost, with Joost clearly being more compelling right now. How does VeohTV compare? Right now very few people [...]
Google Reader having Problems?
It may be an isolated incident but some users (including myself) are reporting problems with Google Reader. Feeds are currently being updated but it’s impossible to mark anything as read, everything appears as if it’s a new article moments after being viewed. You think that Google would be mindful of service interuptions after the recent high [...]
Sowing offline relationships with UrbanSeeder
UrbanSeeder is an Israeli company that seeks to help people create real world connections easily and safely. Their strategy is relatively unique for social websites in that it seeks to help you make offline contacts rather than moving your real-world friends online. With UrbanSeeder you create a “Seed”, a mini-site where only you and [...]
Incremental Search and Office 2007
Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror has expressed his annoyance with finding features in Microsoft’s new Ribbon user interface. If you’d like a bit more information I urge you to read his excellent rundown on part of Microsoft’s new Fluent Interface called the Ribbon , Microsoft’s cancelled “Scout” functionality and how incremental search is [...]
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