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March 7th, 2007

Will the Emerging Earth Have CIOs?

Chris Anderson questions the relevance of the CIO in the face of emerging information technologies:
CIOs, it turns out, are mostly business people who have been given the thankless job of keeping the lights on, IT wise. And the best way to ensure that they stay on is to change as little as possible.
That puts many […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

February 27th, 2007

Dr. Dobbs is SPAM

Anyone else having problems getting off of Dr. Dobb’s and the CMP Tech Network mailing lists? This kind of thing is why I consider AND MARK anything I receive from them now as spam.
I have followed their directed instructions REPEATEDLY to get off their mailing lists to no avail, even after confirmation messages on their […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

February 25th, 2007

Yahoo MSN and Dell Grow Digg Like

You’d think if people were going to copy the idea behind Digg, they would have done it much sooner than now. You know, people like Netscape, who jump in there quick and really rip something off.
Profy.com has a post about Yahoo!, MSN and Dell beginning to offer services for their users to rate various resources […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

February 12th, 2007

Google Groups Glitch

It’s old news now that Google Groups has finally come out of beta and refreshed everything with their redesign.
Answer me this Google Braniac, why in world can I not edit the nickname on my group members lists?
I’m happy with the redesign. I like the new layout of information and many of the management tools, I […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

February 7th, 2007

TiVo Users Soon Able to Enjoy Amazon Unbox

The blogosphere is moderately abuzz with the news that Amazon and TiVo have partnered to allow Amazon Unbox users to view their videos on their network connected TiVo boxes.
I saw the original story on the TiVo Blog website.
Any broadband connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 DVR will be able to download and play Unbox videos. Sorry, […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 15th, 2007

Yahoo Ditches Go TV and Changes to MyChannel

After reading my previous post about TiVo and Comcast getting their groove on, you may have forgotten about the online media company that partnered with TiVo previously, yep Yahoo!
Yahoo! was the first online media company (if I remember correctly) that integrated nicely with TiVo to provide both content and the ability to schedule TiVo recordings […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 11th, 2007

Update: TiVo and Comcast Photos

The PVR Blog now has some camera phone pics of the TiVo/Comcast interface.

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By Jason -- 0 comments

January 11th, 2007

LinkedIn Now Has Answers

 
With the ongoing popularity of the specific feature of getting answers from websites like Amazon, Yahoo, and Google(now defunct), LinkedIn has now entered the ring as well with their own solution.
Here’s a taste for some of the current questions being posed on the site:

Looking for conferences, events and networking groups focused on manufacturing and/or supply […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 11th, 2007

TiVo and Comcast at CES 2007

This is some news that makes me extremely happy. The iPhone didn’t do it for me. I could really care less about a cellphone honestly, I need it to dial people’s numbers, if it synchronizes with my existing Outlook address book, all the better.
But this…this….TiVo and Comcast announcing their TiVo powered cable company DVR is […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 5th, 2007

Put Your Cleats On Google!

In a recent SitePoint Tribune E-mail, one of the articles talks about how Google has started their decent down a “slippery slope” with doctored search results.
For a search engine to provide as its top free “result” a link to a competitive service (that the search engine company owns) is just plain rude — it goes […]

By Jason -- 0 comments