Archive for September 14th, 2008
iMust Develop for iPhone
Michael Arrington is absolutely, positively bang on in suggesting that developers will keep on making products for the iPhone even if Apple does silly things like arbitrarily deciding an application isn’t worthy of getting into the App Store, or rejects a service because it’s a competitive threat. The iPhone platform is going to be too big, too popular and, potentially, too lucrative for a developer to dismiss because they’re pissed at Apple. It would have been like a develope...
Tom Friedman Being Stupid
“America Being Stupid” is the headline on Thomas Friedman’s latest column in the New York Times. It’s a rant against the possibility of offshore drilling. “Why would Republicans, the party of business, want to focus our country on breathing life into a 19th-century technology — fossil fuels — rather than giving birth to a 21st-century technology — renewable energy? … “Of course, we’re going to need oil for many years, but instead of exalting t...
One Less Newspaper Subscription
Having spent more than 15 years as a reporter, I have a special affection for newspapers - and I’m talking about the traditional kind that you read on the couch or on the way to work that leave your fingers stained with ink. But as someone who is also digitally immersed, I realize newspapers - the paper variety - are a dying entity - and the newspaper business is struggling to re-invent itself amid declining revenue and circulation. The fundamental problem is fewer people are reading news...
F|R: 5 Hacks For Closing an Angel Round
Last week we offered you one founder’s rationale for taking money from angel investors, instead of venture capitalists. It’s a trade-off of sorts: smaller checks, but they often come with better deal terms. Some readers took slight umbrage at this proposition: “The reality is that our deal terms are going to be the same as a VCs,” says Ian Sobieski of the Silicon Valley-based Band of Angels. “We also want five to 15X returns, it’s just that since we’re only investing $5...
New York City: 10th Ave and W24th St
(photo taken on September 10, 2008 with a Nikon D300 and a 28-200mm zoom at 10th Ave and W24th Street in NYC) ...
Startup Marries Flash Video with P2P
PPLive, a Singapore start-up that has a P2P video platform for distributing television in Asia has developed a way to accelerate and distribute Flash videos over peer-to-peer networks. The application called PPVA, sits in your task bar and when it detects a Flash video stream, it tries to find folks using the PPVA network who may have cached the same clip. This is good for solving the problems with very-popular files, since there is a likelihood that many more people would have watched the clip...
What’s on GigaNET: The Weekend Edition
OStatic: Famous writer David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest killed himself. We will miss him and his word play. NewTeeVee: Barebones mobile Video startup, Itsmy.com is a blockbuster hit. Earth2Tech: Sarah Palin admits man’s role in climate change … well kinda! jkOnTheRun: James Kendrick in Houston was busy blogging Ike. His cohort Kevin Toefel was parying and wondering if the mobile internet devices, you know UMPC type stuff, was getting killed by the netbooks. WebWorkerDa...
Happy Birthday Geo!
Just wanted to take a moment and wish my friend Geo Geller a very Happy Birthday. My friend Geo is an artist, inventor, photographer, documentary film maker and what he likes to describe as a professional insultant. According to Geo, “a consultant gets paid and tells you what you want to hear, an insultant doesnt get paid and tells you the truth. Geo is the creator of RandomPlace.com and shares a portion of his photography portfolio over at: viZulPoetry.com. diarRHETORICS.com is...
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