In an effort to vie for your attention in the Check In Wars, Gowalla now lets you check in on Facebook and Foursquare. In an effort to vie for your attention in the TV and Movie Watching Wars, Netflix is willing to shell out big bucks for in-season TV shows. Good thing because the prospect [...]
Tagged Check In Wars, Gowalla, iPhone, Location, NetflixOn TechCrunch Mark Suster compares Hulu to the oil cartel OPEC. I’m not sure what this point number 2 has to do with the cartel comparison, but I think it’s one of the more interesting points of the post: 2. Limited “Targeting” of Advertisements: The great promise of the Internet for advertisers was that they [...]
Tagged Hulu, TechCrunchThis one not only has its own song, but the best parody of the magnitude quote with “140 words per post?” “140 characters.” (Brought to me to you by TechCrunch, of course)
Tagged TwitterI’m sure this is a situation that’s starting to happen more and more often as Groupon gets bigger and bigger (what up Chicago-based start-ups!) … Just a bit ago, (okay, it’s actually been over a month now) I went to Tank Sushi with my wife and a friend for dinner. We were going there because [...]
Tagged Fail Whale, GrouponScribd is ditching Flash for HTML5, but Tim Bray says HTML5 ain’t all that big a deal.
Tagged HTML5, Scribd, TechCrunch, Tim BrayI declare that emphatically because I want it to be so. I’m sure I’m not the only code monkey out there praying that “write once, run anywhere” doesn’t leave us like ###… Even now web developers have to test across at least 3 different browsers,* but at least things are trending towards standardization and it’s [...]
Tagged Alex Bosworth, HTML5, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Web Apps, Web DevelopmentFrom a (sort of) recent Facebook status update: While I agree for the most part with the “Tumblr > Twitter” sentiment, well, that’s kind of obvious. Twitter is definitely good for some things (mostly sharing short fleeting thoughts, but also sometimes for sharing links, and conversing with people who use Twitter as their main form [...]
Tagged Blogging, Diatribes, RSS, Social web, Tumblr, Twitteror: The True Power of RSS On the same day when TechCrunch delivered this piece on the Internet as Robin Hood, I also realized how irrelevant “old media” and/or “the establishment” has become to me personally. What brought me to this realization before I even looked at the TechCrunch article? Vajazzle I am going to [...]
Tagged Basketbawful, Jennifer Love Hewitt, New Media, Newspaper, RSS, VajazzleAccording to MacDailyNews: “Apple Inc. acquired online music company Lala Media Inc., possibly signaling an expansion of the computer giant’s music strategy,” Ethan Smith and Yukari Iwatani Kane report for The Wall Street Journal. Terms of the deal were not available, but there’s this: “One person with knowledge of the deal, but who was not [...]
Tagged Apple, Lala.com, Mortal Kombat, Music