Archive for August, 2007
Gmail Video: E-mail Without the Internet
About a month ago, the Gmail team over at Google released the first part of a video clip that is an imaginative way of thinking about how e-mail would be delivered without the internet: lots of smaller video clips edited together show people, animals, and all sorts of other random things transporting a Gmail logo [...]
Hiatus Extremus
So, being as how I turned 21 this past weekend, I have neglected my online content due to much-needed physical recuperation. And I am in the process of writing a few different posts looking at online networking and new media ans it pertains specifically to the collegiate market, but I am leaving for Las [...]
Microsoft Genuine Advantage Has Gone AWOL
Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft Genuine Advantage Validation Tool is experiencing worldwide outages and is invalidating installations all over the map. This has some serious consequences for Microsoft if it isn’t fixed soon: every piece of Microsoft software that you install on a Windows-PC has to be validated which means that anyone buying [...]
The ZunePhone? (a sneak peek!)
This parody of the iPhone has come out amid the long-running rumors that Microsoft is developing a new Zune phone in order to compete with the iPhone. I found it to be hilarious, though I must admit: the Zune has a few really cool features that just need some market time and development before they [...]
3rd Generation iPod Nano Gets All The Bad Genes
UPDATE: Today, Apple debuted this next-gen model of the nano which is very similar to the one pictured below. In addition to the new nano, Apple also released an ‘iPod Classic’, ‘iPod Touch’, as well as slashed the price of the iPhone by $200. Check it out at the Apple website.
Engadget has leaked photos of [...]
Facebook And The Ads That Matter
Facebook reportedly has a new advertising platform in the works that will debut sometime this fall, which will finally use facebook’s unique market position to its advantage. Rather than being randomly displayed throughout the site, as has been the practice to this point (with the exception of the recent ability of companies to keep their [...]
String Theory for Dummies
I stumbled across this video clip a couple days ago on a site called My Self Development, which is a pretty good spot to find some things that will stretch your mind. It is a good site to spend a few minutes a day browsing, because it seems that you always stumble upon [...]
Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution
UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac
Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just listing out our search results, Tafiti creates an [...]
Christmas in August
After months of scouring the internet and posting on numerous message boards, I have finally gotten an invite to 8apps! (As it turns out, Mashable has a pretty awesome system set up for beta invites) So, I’m just getting myself acquainted with this incredible online productivity suite, but within the first five minutes, [...]
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