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Archive for November, 2006

I was delighted to see the following picture on BrooklynVegan:

This is Chuck D showing love for Oxfam and their efforts to make trade fair. Nice!

Amazon’s New Direction

There has been some recent press regarding Jeff Bezos’s latest directions. Some (relatively) positive posts, and some quite negative posts.
Jeff’s new services referenced in these articles are S3, EC2, and MTurk, Amazon offers many more services than just these three. A complete list is available.
A personal favorite of mine is Alexa Site Thumbnail. [...]

Another Sony Bravia Ad

I posted a cool Sony Bravia Ad when I ranted about the changing definition of advertising. Here’s another beautiful Bravia ad. I’m linking to YouTube this time so I can embed it, but I’m sure there’s a HD version floating out there somethere like the last one I linked to.
I wish [...]

I want a quick, one-click way to take a song from my iTunes and blog about it.  Hopefully, the process will upload the song in a slightly reduced bit-rate, but if it has to upload in full-quality, then I can live with that.
I would hope some of the meta-data would be carried into the post, [...]

Mobile YouTube = Digital Cocaine

Advertising Age reported yestarday that YouTube is going mobile in a year.  There is some TechCrunch coverage too.  I imagine the long time table is due to the lack of a good and ubiquitous platform for doing video on a phone.  Java is slow and bulky.  Flash lite has little-to-no adoption in the US market.
I [...]

Best Halloween Costume

I’m sorry about all the dead air on my blog recently. I’ve been busy with the Union Square Ventures annual meeting. But, the event ran smoothly last night, and now I can pay more attention to other things: like blogging!
So, on Halloween, this was, by far, the BEST costume of the night. [...]