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January 31, 2007
Michael Berkley, the CEO of SplashCast, talks to Benjamin about their new video service. SplashCast is a media syndication platform that allows people to embed one player into their webpage and be able to publish multiple videos to that...
One downside of being a cell phone only household (no land line) is losing your phone means you have no phone. And, unlike cordless phones, there is no docking station you can press a button on to locate the darn...
January 30, 2007
How many times have you talked to a soon to graduate student who possessed absolutely no idea how to find a job? They have often never held an internship, worked in the field they now hope to jump into upon...
When I started writing for the Internet back in 1997, the general thinking among what few net journalists there were back then was that shorter was better. Stories were supposed to be at most a few paragraphs long. Everyone seemed...
January 29, 2007
We have all heard the arguments before in video, music and print both pro and con Digital Rights Management. Content creators like DRM because it helps prevent users from stealing their work. Consumers hate DRM because it prevents them from...
At CES 2007 the video crew had help from Jeff Deitch in the form of Gopher, programmer, photog and all around great guy. This was Jeff's first time to CES and Ed Kohler took a minute to sit down with...
When all of us were writing last fall about YouTube being purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in stock, part of that mantra was YouTube’s traffic consisting of users viewing 100 million videos per day. Thousands of news stories and...
January 28, 2007
Flickr offers a wide variety of organizational tools to help users make sense of their photo portfolios. One option is Sets, which allows you to group photos and set permissions for that group of photos. Creating sets for events, such...
January 27, 2007
Remember Interactive TV ? What is today Time-Warner Cable ran a trial in Columbus, Ohio in 1976 for a new kind of cable television called QUBE that would allow viewers to buy goods directly from TV, to vote in polls,...
The videos from CES are all posted, but we wanted to show you a little bit of what went on behind the scenes for those videos. Mostly because while Benjamin and Ed say they are professionals, as these outtakes...
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January 26, 2007
This Sunday I’ll be 54 years old, which doesn’t make me old per se, but probably makes me older than you and DEFINITELY makes me old for a guy with three sons aged four-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, and eight months. Do the...
If you were not at TECHCocktail last night this video shows you the type of conversation you might have missed. This is an interview with Jeff Pulver that we shot at TECHCocktail 2. The audio unfortunately is not the...
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January 25, 2007
TECHCocktail 3 is tonight in Chicago! Frank Gruber and Eric Olson got together with us to talk about tonights event, what changes we can expect, what noobies should bring and a bit of what happens behind the scenes. In addition...
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Are online retailers driving customers AWAY from their sites? I've noticed in Technology Evangelist's web stats that we get a fair amount of traffic for "coupon code" related searches. With a little digging, I noticed we rank second to a...
January 24, 2007
Technology Evangelist is excited to welcome Robert X. Cringely to the team! To celebrate this grand occasion we had a short conversation with Bob to get a glimpse into his brain. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/40970/Technology_Evangelist_Welcomes_Robert_X_Cringely.mp3&song_title=Technology Evangelist Welcomes Robert X. Cringely"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/40970/Technology_Evangelist_Welcomes_Robert_X_Cringely.mp3&song_title=Technology Evangelist Welcomes...
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One thing that's really annoying about buying a cell phone these days is figuring out whether it's compatible with your wireless provider. For example, Apple has fired up the masses with new iPhone, but it's only going to be available...
No wonder Hollywood is so scared. Notional Value is a term used in financial securities markets to describe market size. If you are buying stock option contracts, for example, those contracts will give you control of a lot more shares...
My name is Bob. This is my first-ever post on technologyevangelist.com but far from my last. I’m Bob Cringely, a fairly well known guy around the Internet, or maybe it is just that I have been around a long time. ...
[Update: It looks like the problem was somewhere between Feedburner. All is well.] It looks like the formerly unflappable Feedburner.com has run into some technical issues. Their website and feeds burned through their site both appear to be offline right...
January 23, 2007
The folks running the Hitwise blog continues to crank out interesting peeks into the data they collect. This time, LeeAnn Prescott takes a look at the market share of RSS feed aggregators, including Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Netvibes and Google Reader:...
Tania Beagley from Eleksen talks to Benjamin about Elektex, which is a smart fabric sensing technology. What that all means is that you can put controls for just about any electronic device into a piece of fabric and be...
January 22, 2007
Benjamin and Cariann take a look at the Nokia N93 cameraphone and wonder about its place in the marketplace. Would you be willing to give up a QWERTY keyboard for an amazing camera on your convergence device? Click below to...
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How far has adoption of blogging and other conversational marketing tools come? Not nearly far enough based on my one industry: real estate. And here's why: I live in a neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN called Longfellow that has around 20,000...
Could you please stop spamming blogs? It's getting really annoying. In fact, I had a post ready to go talking about CellSwapper but have pulled the post because of the spam I've received from your company in the comments on...
January 21, 2007
Benjamin and Cariann take a look at the Palm Treo lineup vs the Apple iPhone. We have a lot of questions about the iPhone such as its place in the market and potential buyers. Will it offset sales of SmartPhones...
Continue reading "Technology Evangelist Podcast 0008" »
This past weekend was a big weekend for announcing presidential campaigns for the 2008 elections. I spent some time watching announcement videos from various candidates from both a political and technical standpoint. This point isn't meant to be political, but...
January 20, 2007
I noticed in our web stats that visitors are asking whether pinging a blog will increase inbound links. Here's the short answer: Pinging your blog does not increase the number of inbound links your site receives. And here's the long-winded...
January 19, 2007
This month Hitachi announced and demonstrated at the CES the world’s first 3.5” terabyte disk drive. Note, a terabyte is 1,000 times 1 billion bytes or characters. The drive is shown below. It looks like any other 3.5” disk drive...
Last April, I posed the question, "Will MySpace Kill Classmates.com?" on Technology Evangelist, and included the following comment: "While Classmates has filled an interesting niche for years, it looks like MySpace's fast growing - and potentially larger already - network...
January 18, 2007
When we first started Technology Evangelist a little over a year ago we knew we wanted to get into video blogging so we chose a platform that had a pretty good architecture for it: Movable Type. Through plugins we have...
January 16, 2007
John Faulknier talks about WAAV, which makes cellular routers that connect to a cellular network and create a WiFi hotspot. John also talks about their new product that takes two cellular connections and turns them into one WiFi connection....
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During last week's CES show, Palm hosted a an event-specific blog called the Palm Microblog, where users could contribute to post about what they were seeing at the CES show using TypePad's mobile publishing platform for Palm devices. Ben and...
January 15, 2007
I first ran this test a little over a year ago and thought today would be a good day to give it another shot. This is the autocomplete personality test, where you type each letter of the alphabet into your...
Jim Denney talked to Benjamin about some new features for TiVo including the ability to download music videos and access Rhapsody through your TiVo. Jim also talks about the new Comcast Tivo and he and Benjamin go in depth into...
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January 14, 2007
Here is a quick look at the ten most popular photos we published from the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show according to our Flickr stats. The photos link to hi-res versions hosted at Flickr and the titles link to stories we...
January 13, 2007
The folks over at PR Web contacted us earlier this week about doing a podcast regarding "Instant Journalism" as demonstrated by the Technology Evangelist team at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Mario from PR Web had a five...
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My main photo printer is an Epson 2200. It is a lovely, large format printer with 6 separate cartridges of long lasting inks. It serves me well for most purposes but when I want small prints I have been using...
January 12, 2007
CES has come to a close, but stay tuned for more videos shot over the last few days. We highly recommend subscribing to our RSS feed and/or one of our video RSS feeds so you can pull down high-resolution versions...
January 11, 2007
This is the line at the Bellagio for the next showing of "O". It's long, it's painful and according to the desk it's sold out. Of course we could waste an hour+ of our time waiting in stand-by hoping...
You asked what the best party is at CES. We looked around, and while we may be biased, The Bloghaus topped our list. Good company and good bandwidth, what more could you want?...
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Here's Ed moblogging about the Sony Bravia Internet Link from the Sony booth at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. Notice his glowing pocket transmitting the latest show coverage from his Treo 700p. Time for some more stories....
Izhar Matzkevich from Wildcharge talks to Benjamin about a product that charges any enabled electronic device just by placing it on a pad. This application is great for the traveler so they do not have to bring every charger for...
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Click To Play (10 Seconds) iTouchless has an infrared trashcan that automatically flips open when your hand comes with 6" of the lid. It runs on 4 D-cell batteries that last around a year under normal use. They have...
Sling Media announced a few new devices at CES. One of these is the Sling Catcher which allows you to sling media from one tv in your house to another, or as they describe it a Slingbox in reverse....
Continue reading "CES - Rich Buchanan, Sling Media" »
Dopi Karaoke has karaoke files for iPods and other portable video devices. These are videos that give both the music and the text of the song. Benjamin and Ed were seen dancing in the vicinity of this booth, but to...
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We got another video mail question about why the Logitech web cameras looked so much better than the others he has seen. Benjamin takes a look at the new Logitech cameras....
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January 10, 2007
Click To Play Check out the remote control dragonfly crusing the heights of the Sands Convention Center during CES 2007. This thing drew a crowd and put smiles on people's faces as it bobbed and weaved through the air....
We know Benjamin loves his Treo, but We think he may have found a new love. Unfortunately it is still a phone. Andy Clipsham from palm is fortunately able to keep as Benjamin floods him with questions about the Treo...
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We got a video mail question and we went to Netgear for the answer. Netgear has a new product that competes with Apple's new AppleTV product. Time will tell which is better, but it is nice to have options....
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This new box from Sony allows you to stream "all the fun of Internet video, straight to your TV." That is, if "all the fun" is on AOL Video, Yahoo Video, or Sony's Grouper video service. There are no...
Steven Knuff shows us the Nokia N93i. It is a new phone that also doubles as a video camera. Nokia's goal is convergence of products so you only have to carry one device instead of a camera, phone, etc....
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Benjamin takes a look thru the the Jabra booth and finds the BT8010. It is a stereo blutooth headset that has a number of interesting features,including the ability to store contacts in the headset....
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This wrist mounted camera frees up your hands so you can focus on activities rather than juggling a camera. It's waterproof to 100', and can be mounted on a kayak paddle, wind surf board, or mountain bike handles. It...
Eric Grab from Divx talks to Benjamin about Divx being the mp3 of video. They also talk about the future of Divx, and some new projects that are being done with Divx....
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January 9, 2007
You would have to be hiding in your room to not know that Microsoft's Zune mp3 player was at the CES show. Benjamin saw a few too many “Welcome to the Social��? signs and decided he had to try squirting...
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Sandisk has a VCR without the "C" using SD or Compact Flash cards as the recording media. Program the device to record your favorite shows, then slip the flash card into your portable devide of choice, such as a...
Benjamin oggles and ahhhs over the new LCD TV from Sharp. It is 108 inches. Whomever said that bigger is not always better, obviously was not talking about TV's. The other nice thing about this screen is that because of...
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Benjamin issues his challenge to Palm. Why can a small Samsung phone hold 8 gigs, but his Treo can only hold 128 megs. He is still scratching his head about this....
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Video Journalism is about to change. Nokia has announced the N93i phone which has an optical zoom, 640x480 30fps video camera. Now anyone can grab content in the field and immediately upload this to their Blog. No computer required,...
Samsung has a new plasma mount. Now we know that plasma mounts are not very exciting and how much innovation can you have in a plasma mount. Well this one is both motorized and remote controlled. There are a number...
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Since the photo of the new Nano sized Samsung phone was so popular, we sent Benjamin to take a look at it and give his opinion. Here are his first impressions of the new phone....
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Benjamin shows us the new disc player from LG. The interesting feature of this disc player is that it plays both HD-DVD and BluRay discs. It also plays your regular red laser discs. This gives you one player for...
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LG has a new laptop that is unfortunately not in the US yet. It has some very neat features giving you WiMax or you can put your cell phone sim card in it to give you bandwidth access that...
Bert Desmond talks about a new consumer camera from Panasonic that records HD video. There are a number of very nice features on this camera including being a 3CCD camera. But one of the cooler features is that it...
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Grant Cole from Motorola shows us a new 3G version of the Razor. The phone also has a new application that gives them zero click access to their data services....
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Apple has announced that their product codenamed iTV will actually be called Apple TV. It's an interesting product, but does it really bring any innovation to this marketspace? Apple is not the first to create a media center extender, which...
Dina Kaplan from blip.tv talks about video for the web for the next year. Blip.tv is working on serialized videos for the web, giving people their own branded show. Dina also is seeing more and more people moving away from...
January 8, 2007
Wow, that's one big TV. How big of a family room do you need to put one of these in your home? Ben thinks the picture quality starts to degrade at this size, but, as you can see, he's...
Before today, we hadn't seen a Zune anywhere but at the end of the aisle at Target. Now we can add Microsoft's Zune Lounge to our Zune sighting list. Ben received a demo on how to squirt a song...
Benjamin, Ed, and Andy Abramson sat down to talk about the new form of journalism, and the idea of instant journalism. They talk about what is important in blogging, and how blogging has turned into a very targeted media. Unfortunately...
Benjamin, Ed, and Andy Abramson sat down to talk about the new form of journalism, and the idea of instant journalism. They talk about what is important in blogging, and how blogging has turned into a very targeted media. Unfortunately...
Laszlo Barabas is with Dice Electronics, a company that specializes in HD radio. He and Benjamin have a good discussion about HD radio and what the advantages are to both the consumer and broadcaster....
Sean Lai is the Project manager from Asus Computer International. They are making some very cool accessories that let you add a new graphics card to your laptop. Sean also shows us a new laptop that has the ability...
Two days ago, Ben posted an article to Technology Evangelist asking our audience of techies to send in questions they'd like to hear asked of companies presenting at the Consumer Electronics Show via video voicemail. Yesterday, Andy Abramson picked up...
We're at the first BlogHaus and we have Robert Scoble talking about netcasting. Great interview, well worth the 30 minute listen. Ben, Ed and Robert with a Blue Microphone at the end of a long dining room table. We talk...
January 7, 2007
Wondering what's happening at CES but only have your Treo with you? Want to watch the latest videos from Technology Evangelist on the go? Now you can! We have just upgraded the mobile site. Take your Treo 700p or other...
It's a radio, CD player, and GPS all in one. Okay, that's been done before, but Eclipse has taken a different route by partnering with TomTom GPS on the nav unit. A TomTom unit docks into the Eclipse unit and...
We're experimenting with getting your audio and video into our daily netcasts. Being the tech junkies we know you are, you probably have about 40 different RSS feeds with all the CES info available on the web. With all that...
John Santhoff from Pulse Link talks about Ultra-Wideband technology highlighting the power and speed of UWB....
CES Unveiled gives us a chance to talk to a great number of interesting people, including the President of the Consumer Electronics Association, the people who put together CES. Listen to what he has to say about the beginning of...
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This new phone from Samsung is similar in dimensions to an iPod Nano when closed, but pivots open to a more usable phone size. If size is your number one consideration for a phone, this may be one worth checking...
Netgear Entertainer HD Originally uploaded by technologyevangelistcom. We're live at the Netgear press conference at the Marco Poloo Conference Room at The Venetian. The Netgear Entertainer HD pushes HD (and non-HD) content to computers throughout your home. This includes...
The Novint Falcon from Novint Technologies, Inc provides an interesting first-person shooter gaming perspective with this new 3-D interactive joystick. The joystick provides three dimensional control of your movement and shooting while providing feedback to the gamer of what's...
The first press day for CES begins with CES Unveiled. Our cameras were there and we respond to our first video question via SightSpeed....
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What does a 1 TB hard drive look like? Just like any other hard drive from my perspective, which goes to show why people shouldn't judge hard drives by their understated looks. On a related note, we have a pool...
Today was CES Unveiled, an event for press to get to see some products before the CES Expo actually starts. Got some good video interviews which we will be posting in the coming days. It was interesting to see the...
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The bandwidth at the Las Vegas Hilton is considerably slower tonight than last night; and it's probably due to the influx of CES geeks like us in the past 24 hours. After mentioning this in an earlier story, a reader...
January 6, 2007
The Hotseat Flight Sim with Dolby Digital® 5.1 surround sound and LCD display drew a crowd at tonight's press event. You'll need a big space to dedicate to this in your house, but if you're a real flight enthusiast...
Office Space Originally uploaded by edkohler. Jeremy and Ben working hard earlier today from our hotel office with a view at the Hilton Las Vegas. We find plenty of time to take in the view while videos are uploading...
Internet: $60 -- Comcast Rants: Free Cable Internet access is going up from $45 to $60 per month plus possibly an additional $3/mo for modem rental in Minneapolis, and people are NOT happy. (tags: cable internetaccess comcast qwest)...
CES 2007 Hydration Strategy Originally uploaded by technologyevangelistcom. We had a chance to catch a sneak peek of the CES tradeshow floors today while picking up our press badges. Panasonic's HDTV setup = awesome. The folks at SAVV mobile...
We're experimenting with getting your audio and video into our daily netcasts. Being the tech junkies we know you are, you probably have about 40 different RSS feeds with all the CES info available on the web. With all that...
We have arrived in Las Vegas and instead of taking a day off for travel we hit Fremont Street and shot a quick Netcast about our CES coverage. Oh and before anyone asks, yes Benjamin did gamble and no he...
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Ben was ready to roll on January 1st with his technology predictions for 2007. Me? I needed a few days to figure things out. But this leaves me with only 360 days for things to come true. We'll have to...
January 5, 2007
We're in Las Vegas Netcasting from our hotel room! We're preparing to ask your questions to the product vendors from the expo floor. Details are in this Netcast and mailing info is at the bottom of this post. Get ready,...
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Want to read about EVERYTHING that's happening at CES this year? Technology Evangelist has created an OMPL file with 40 top blogger's RSS feeds brought together for easy import into the RSS reader of your choice. Simply save THIS LINK...
January 4, 2007
I'm a Facebook user, but I'm not the kind of user who goes through withdrawal symptoms if I haven't checked my wall in the past few hours. In fact, I can go days or weeks without logging in. Yes at...
What Jobs told me on the iPhone "You want to meet Steve Jobs to persuade him that Apple should build a tablet computer, or an iPhone? Then besides having a big purchasing budget and persuasive reasons, you'd better bring...
CES is just a few days away, and with it comes the High Definition coverage from Technology Evangelist. Below you'll find a list of RSS video players and the associated links to subscribe to our streams. We prefer the use...
We are still working on how we are going to do our daily technology show so until we do here is part 3 in our series of bio videos. This one is about Jeremy Elfering, who is our videographer and...
CES 2007 is just days away! Ed and I leave for CES tomorrow, so this will be the last Audio Netcast with Cariann for a bit. Here is what I'm looking forward to at this years expo. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/33920/Technology_Evangelist_Netcast_0004.mp3&song_title=Technology%20Evangelist%20Netcast%200004"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/33920/Technology_Evangelist_Netcast_0004.mp3&song_title=Technology%20Evangelist%20Netcast%200004" />...
Net Application's latest newsletter included a look at year over year operating system market share as detected by their stats software installed on websites across the web. Here is what they found: Looks like a 27% increase for Macs over...
January 3, 2007
Get ready for CES 2007! In Daily Audio Netcast episode 0003 we take a peek at Cariann's CES picks this year. Since Cariann is not going to CES she's willing to get together with anyone in the Minneapolis area at...
The technical talent behind left-wing political blog, Daily Kos, are looking for feedback on what platform they should use for the next revision of the site: Daily Kos: DK4: Technology Cagematch Edition Language: Perl, Ruby, or Python? Java is right...
The other day, I heard a talk show conversation about many doctor's motivation to practice in a specialty rather than as a primary physician is often due to the salaries associated with each when weighed against the debt burden faced...
Found out an interesting little tidbit today. Since I want to use Skype and SightSpeed to record audio and video conversations for our daily Netcasts, I decided it would be a good idea to get Skype voicemail again. Since I'm...
In the same spirit of cheap cop-outs for videos here is the next video that will be posted on our Technology Evangelist bio page. This one featuring the myth, the legend (at least in his own mind) Ed Kohler. Unfortunately...
January 2, 2007
I thought it would be fun to release a copy of the promotional videos we're working on. I know, I know, it's a cheap cop-out for posting an actual second daily video, but I need some more time to figure...
It's New Years eve. My wife and I are snuggled up on the couch watching the ball drop. 10! 9! 8! 7! KABLAM!!! Our micro-projection HD set turns off with a loud popping noise. Immediately I fear the lamp has...
Welcome to show #0002. In this show Cariann and I take a look at the terms Podcasting and Netcasting while I explain why I prefer Netcasting. Links to associated media after the jump. data="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/33320/Technology_Evangelist_Netcast_0002.mp3&song_title=Technology%20Evangelist%20Netcast%200002"> value="http://www.technologyevangelist.com/xspf_player_slim.swf?song_url=http://www.movedigital.com/go/benjaminhigginbotham/33320/Technology_Evangelist_Netcast_0002.mp3&song_title=Technology%20Evangelist%20Netcast%200002" /> I have added the...
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Being the start of a new year, I imagine quite a few of you are restarting the diet you started a year ago. Let's face it: you're fat. Or, is it just me? Well, in case it's not just me,...
January 1, 2007
Page views have long been the metric of choice for measuring the ad potential of web sites. It's not hard to understand that with every page view comes a group of ads, so the more pages you serve, the more...
Dueling Network Neutrality Videos Microsoft's Zune the salvation of VC1? What Type of Page Views are Most Valuable? MySpace.com's Spam Problem Amazon.com is Running SLOOOOW Today...
My final new years resolution is to post text to our blog at least once per day (starting to see a pattern?) I'm hoping that in 2007 TechnologyEvangelist.com will be able to better engage our readers and we'll get a...
My second new years resolution is to create a video netcast every day. This one is much harder than the audio netcast as it requires a lot more work. All in all I think this will be good and what...
As part of 2007 I have decided to try and create an audio netcast every day for our faithful viewers... er... listeners. I have yet to name the show and I'm still tweaking with the format a bit, but here...
Happy 2007! I think it's once again time to jump on the prediction bandwagon, so here we go... 1 - The war for the living room will begin, but not much will actually come of it. Apple will release their...
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