My Kingdom For A Map

I can’t imagine it’s that hard to make an interactive map where you pick a city (or town, if you have to go to the Pella Showroom in Morton Grove and want to find somewhere to go for dinner around there) and then it just shows you the restaurants in that city (or town).
Both […]

DJI Monday

Now, I have an MBA, but it’s in Management, so I’m not going to try to pretend to know what’s going on here. I mean, is this just institutional investors trying to see how cheap they can buy stocks off Joe Boxwines© who are in a panic to get rid of everything that’s tanking?
I find […]

MySpace Music - Early Impressions…

Well, I made a playlist. That was quick and easy. Have yet to hear any music, though… My guess is that they’re a little overwhelmed (probably by bloggers who want to be the first with a comprehensive review of the service), but that is making it very underwhelming at the moment.

More Relevant Facebook Ads

Last time, the advertisers were way off (well, depending on your interpretation of their target audience (and given that there’s this, I suppose there is a lot of room for interpretation).
Here’s a recent Facebook targeted ad, which at least gets it half right:

As a side note, telling me what “you know” about me makes me […]

Chrome is out!

How long until all the ‘pundits’ (and by pundits I mean, Don Reisinger at TechCrunch, who recently brought me this thought-provoking post that I really liked about Hulu) realize that each tab is running as its own process? It sure seems like it’s running on only 45 MB of memory… until you look a little […]

Netflix streaming on Xbox 360!

That’s what I’m talking about! (TechCrunch)
Netflix is coming to the Xbox 360 this fall. Netflix subscribers will have instant access to over 10,000 movies and TV shows, streamed directly to the Xbox 360 console.

Powerful Americans vs. Helpless Chinese

Yes, the title is intended to be dramatic.
First, there’s the feelgood part: Netflix has decided to keep separate profiles for single accounts. As a Netflix subscriber: Thank you. When I heard they were going to eliminate the profiles, I wondered (right after copying my 300+ DVD queue into a an OpenOffice spreadsheet) if there was […]