Light bulb moment in California

I tried various CFL options and they all look like crap. There is no way a “60 watt equivalent” CFL puts out the same light that an incandescent bulb does. Plus, for can lights mounted in the ceiling you don’t have many options for CFL. Then there is that whole issue about the government telling [...]

That’s gonna leave a mark…

The first device was found under Interstate 93, and the state police bomb squad was called and detonated the package in Sullivan Square just before 10 a.m. Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were “consistent with an improvised explosive device,” but they said it had no explosives.Marketing gone bad.

HP rides celeb’s bike for big game

I should probably wait until the commercial actually runs but this sounds like one dumb-ass concept.

Update: Dan posted a lengthy piece on the spot here. Obviously the people behind this campaign know a lot more about marketing than I could ever hope to, and HP has been successful at rehabilitating their brand through advertising and [...]

Social networking sites don’t belong to the people that created them…

Yesterday I wrote that the move Yahoo! made to force merging Flickr’s identity system into Yahoo’s bummed me out, but a lot of people are really pissed about it. The move to limit the number of contacts is really idiotic, they are taking their most passionate users and telling them not to use Flickr too [...]

The Dearth of Web Services and a Solution

Joe McKendrick points out an uncomfortable reality about web 2.0 and published APIs, namely that there aren’t that many of them relative to the number of web sites that could be offering them. This is something that we faced at Teqlo, which of course is built on the premise that these services exist and provide [...]

The Politics of Minimum Wage Increases

Here’s a viewpoint on the minimum wage you won’t like hear much about.

Minimal effort | Free exchange | Economist.com:

CEO’s who support higher minimum wages are not, as the media often casts them, renegade heros speaking truth to power because their inner moral voice bids them be silent no more. They are by and large, [...]

Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3

Told you so… I do admire their attempt to put the spin on it, suggesting that the loss is due to the price point being below manufacturing costs, neatly sidestepping the bigger issue that they had 300k unsold units after the pivotal Christmas shopping season, but hey they did “ship 1 million units” into the [...]

SpanningSync goes Beta

Mac users rejoice, you can now sync Google Calendar with Apple’s iCal app. Fellow Irregular Charlie Wood put SpanningSync into open beta today. I have a copy, it works great. It’s one thing to subscribe to a Google Cal, it’s a whole other thing to do 2 way sync.

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Flickr merges their login system with Yahoo!

Flickr is finally forcing the switch from the “old skool” login system that pre-dated Flickr’s acquisition by Yahoo! with the Yahoo! (is it protocol to put the ! every time you type out that company name?) login system. Bummer, I resisted merging my flickr account with my yahoo account for the same silly reason that [...]

Competitious - Competitive News Clipping

One of the most obvious applications for the “wisdom of crowds” treatment has to be competitive news clipping, and it’s a mystery to me why more companies like Competitious are not on the scene. News clipping services like Cogenz and Connectbeam are enjoying usage growth, and both of those have enterprise deployment options, but to [...]