By marco on August 20, 2008
Today I installed a new Wordpress plugin from MyBlogLog called JusrForYou.
You see an example set of recommendations to the left (taken from the quoted blog post below).
Here is the blog post explaining a little more about it “Just for You Personalizes Your WordPress Blog“:
Yet, none of these add-ons look at the stated interests of the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Tools, Wordpress | Tagged JustForYou, MyBlogLog, personalization, plugin, recommendation, related posts, wordpress
By marco on August 15, 2008
Amazon.com has opened up the second round of the beta phase for its unbox instand video streaming service called “watch now”. The unbox service enables you to rent and buy movies and TV shows from amazon through a download to your PC without the need to get the DVD shipped to you, or going to [...]
Posted in iTV, MacOS, Media, News, video, Web | Tagged amazon, beta, instant watching, IPTV, streaming, unbox, video, watch now
By marco on August 12, 2008
You always wonder what will happen with your device if you have to return it.
Even more so if the device is an iPhone with a lot of your personal data on it (contacts, documents, web browser data still left in its cache, etc.).
Just found an older post about what the owner of a refurbished iPhone [...]
Posted in Mobile, News | Tagged data security, iPhone, Mobile
By marco on August 11, 2008
I have been missing out on this completely, so for everyone who is in the same boat, check out http://drhorrible.com:
Aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams, but his nemesis, Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion), stops him at every turn in [...]
Posted in iTV, Media, video, Web | Tagged comedy, Dr Horrible, hulu.com, iTunes, TV
By marco on August 2, 2008
A friend just pointed me to this older blog post by Chet Haase (his blog), titled Crystal Methodology. He is describing different methodologies of how to develop software and has some interesting twists added to every single one.
One example excerpt:
Scum
In the Scrum development model, the focus is on short iterations and constant communication. [...]
Posted in Blogging, programming, Web | Tagged development methodology, fun
By marco on July 21, 2008
Sweeeeeeet!
Here is a picture of the MotionPlus, and what Nintendo says about it:
Nintendo’s upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D [...]
Posted in Marketing, News, Wii | Tagged controler, games, gaming, remote, Wii
By marco on July 19, 2008
I just installed a program and kernel extension which allows me to mount a remote server over SSH as a “normal drive” under MacOS X. Nothing brand new, but I did some research and thought I share what I found out to speed up other people who might need this.
Here is a description of the [...]
Posted in MacOS, Open Source, Web Tools | Tagged MacFUSE, MacFusion, mount, remote server
By marco on July 17, 2008
Are you a startup in the Online advertising business? The econnomy is in a very shaky state and many companies think about their future.
This is what the Google Trends graph looks like for the search term “recession”:
Google Trends: term “recession” in searches and news.
I found a great article on “Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen” called [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web | Tagged advertising, google trends, recession
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