Dvorak on the Future of PC Marketshare
I was just listening to the latest this WEEK in TECH podcast and found myself really thinking about John Dvorak's final thought on the logical future of the PC. He feels - and I agree - it's bound to be Linux on the server, OSX86 (Apple) running on the desktop with Microsoft controlling the [...]
The Pandora Project – Music Recommendation the Right Way
I don’t know how I missed this until now, but the Pandora Project is a very cool music recommendation service. I’ve been listening much more to Podcasts lately on my Nano and missing some new juice in the music department... Pandora is just what I need to track some new stuff - as well [...]
The Future of Video Distribution
As I previously stated, the aggregator rather than the direct relationship is the way to distribute content to the consumer - and I still believe that to be the case. Even Jeremy Allaire, who is definitely smarter than I am, concedes any direct relationship will take up to 10 years if the shift were [...]
Flickr Photocasts!
Chris Pirillo notes a cool way to “hack” the RSS feed from Flickr to deliver photos to the PSP in the new PSM Media Manager. For some reason, iTunes won’t deal with this, which is killing me since I’d love to pull my photos from Flickr right to my iPod. Granted I can [...]
Premium Distributed Content from Apple?
I’ve been thinking about the iPod 5G and the video capability in iTunes and the ITMS and considering the success announced this week believe that it’s quite possible for things to accelerate much more rapidly towards a new network model. If you think about the manner in which you subscribe to a podcast and apply that [...]
Flickr Prints!
Finally!!! Flickr has implemented printing on an official basis. For now, U.S. residents can order prints and have them fulfilled at their local Target for pickup or delivery to their home. The best part of the implementation is that you can control who can order prints based on your contacts. Now, my family and friends [...]
Mac mini Running Front Row!
I see that Zeno, of the MacMiniCenter Wiki, has Front Row running on a Mac mini, which just totally rocks (via TUAW)! This is the vision many of us had when the mini was released and it’s one step closer today. The implementation is still in hack mode, but it's certainly a great [...]
Apple Lobs Grenade into Microsoft Media Center Camp
APC Magazine: "Apple is about to deftly round-house kick Microsoft’s media center strategy for six. First Apple leaves a mysterious header on the Mac Mini motherboard for a non-existent iPod dock connector. Then it brings out media center software and a video iPod at the same time. Then it recruits the head of TV recording [...]