Yesterday, Microsoft released its biggest update to the Xbox 360 yet — a brand new operating system. The new OS, what Microsoft is calling the “new Xbox Experience,” is quite nice. It is much slicker than the old blade OS. It uses a vertical list for the main categories (Video Marketplace,
Campaign Monitor and MailBuild, two great products, are merging. When I started using MailBuild, I wondered why they weren’t built in to each other. I’m glad they will be soon. (Via Sean Sperte.)
Andy Finnell argues that by pricing their applications at 99¢, developers are undervaluing their applications and thus hurting themselves and the nascent iPhone platform. He thinks developers would be better off by increasing their prices. It’s a smart point. The App Store is still developing, and the current pricing
I am not sure how I missed this, but toward the end of October, Tap Tap Tap published a detailed look at their Where To marketing. The results are clear — for a good application like Where To, advertising in relevant areas, like Macworld magazine and Daring Fireball, works really well.
I received this gem in my feed reader today from Tim Bray’s Ongoing, as the opening of his description of what regulations he thinks should be implemented in wake of the financial crisis: Oh, and if any right-wing fundamentalists or Randroids want to explain how if government just
Since mid-summer, TightWind has been almost advert-free, save a small Basecamp badge. That changed last Friday. Michael Mistretta’s new company, Fusion Ads, launched last week. Their goal is simple: deliver one simple, relevant and unobtrusive ad per page on growing weblogs which provide great content. This is
In endorsing Barack Obama, Colin Powell made several comments on McCain’s campaign and on taxes. I admire Powell very much. Along with Condoleezza Rice, they are some of the few people in Washington who, from my view, are non-partisan patriots in the true sense of the word — they
Cowen writes: The end result was that both markets and governments failed miserably — at the same time and on the same issues. With hindsight, it is easy to argue that regulation should have done more, but in most countries, governments were happy about rising real estate and asset prices and
I started following Apple news in January 2005, when Apple released the Mac Mini. That was the first Mac I lusted for, mostly for the simple reason that it was the only Mac I could remotely afford as a jobless high school student. That was not very long ago, but
And by that, I don’t mean that Apple’s products aren’t made in China—they just don’t feel like they’re made in China. Michael Mistretta I couldn’t help but respond to this. Michael’s comment, I think unintentionally, assumes that “made in China” is a
Video of BrightKite’s iPhone application in use, and it looks like they’ve developed something really great. What’s particularly impressive is the application’s ability to recognize where you are — e.g., if you are at Panera Bread, it figures that out all on its own from your
Well, I’m not, but Christoper Buckley is. I sympathize with his initial reasoning, that McCain, despite a history of stable, unwavering beliefs, has run an inconsistent and ill-conceived campaign. This is true; McCain’s instincts have clearly been to run a dignified, issues-focused, center-right campaign, but