What does it take to be an analyst? It doesn’t seem like the expectations for job performance are very high. Analysts are frequently wrong, and frequently disagree with each other. It seems like you can say whatever you want, and get away with it. What got me thinking about this is this statement by Rick […]
This mention of Crackdown for the XBox 360 reminded me of something I was thinking about a few days ago. This next generation of consoles is different than any previous generation, in that one of the participants, the Wii, has nowhere near the graphical capabilities as the other two. This puts it at a serious […]
I was just in Best Buy looking at the PS3 demo kiosk, and the PS3 there had a lot of video trailers of games loaded, but only a few actual game demos. I fired up Motorstorm for a look. It’s a very nice looking game and the physics seemed excellent during the short time I […]
Doc Searls is blogging about what he’s calling Vendor Relationship Management (VRM), basically the inverse of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). CRM is when a company stores information about you; VRM would technically be you storing information about the vendors you deal with, but really it’s more like you’re storing things on behalf of the vendors you […]
Wasn’t long ago that the idea of an LED flashlight was cool in itself, but I realized they’ve gone mainstream when I picked up 4 pack of mini LED flashlights, each one with 8 LEDs (so they’re super bright) for $12 at Costco. The package came with batteries – and usuall 12 AAA batteries would […]
They’ve pushed the Fall 2006 dashboard update out the consoles; mine updated itself this morning. Not a single new feature that’s really interesting to me. It’s mostly refinements of what’s already there, and support for a new video mode that my TV doesn’t support. I wanted a web browser; I wanted the ability to stream […]
The PS3 launches next month, and with it, Sony’s next generation online component – which they’ve decided not to brand separately from the console. This makes it difficult to refer to directly, so I’ll call it the PS3 Online here for clarity. Sony has had an online component for the PS2 for years, but there’s […]
Nintendo is showing off a bit more of the Wii on their new wii.com site. And they’re showing some interesting stuff. The Wii is not being touted as a high-definition gaming box, but take a look at all of the screenshots and video clips they’re showing. They’re in a 16:9 aspect ratio. And look at […]
One thing that drives me nuts is services that make it really easy to sign up, but difficult to cancel. There are some great stories of people trying to cancel AOL accounts. I signed up for CNN Pipeline when it came out because I like the idea of streaming video news on my PC, but I guess […]
Firefox 1.5 is out. A killer feature in this version that I’ve hardly seen mentioned is SVG support. You might be thinking “yay vectors in a browser” but it’s more than that. SVG is an object model for a graphical image. JavaScript can manipulate this model. This means a whole new level of possibilities for […]