Kiko Sells for $258,100
BBC America fans are quite familiar with a delightful show called, Cash In The Attic. The premise of the show is that antique experts go to someone's house and find things which might look like trash...
the story of chumby
Chumby is different. The chumby was not created in the design department of some big consumer electronics company. Market analysis and focus groups were not performed. Frankly, there wasn't very mu...
Internet time
Thanks Marc for the kind words. — Actually, there is lots that's new in what I'm doing now, except it was new in 1999, when I was doing it for the first time. And as you can see from Bob Stepno's p...
IS THE VISTA STARTUP SOUND TOO MUCH OF AN ANNOYANCE?
People are talking about a little bit of noise that they haven't even heard being a really big annoyance. Of course, they are right to worry, since if Microsoft goes forward as planned, you will hear...
EA executive hints of possible acquisition of Crytek
Chicago (IL) - A report published in a German newspaper today suggests that Electronic Arts (EA) could snuggle up with Crytek closer and beyond the distribution deal for the upcoming Crysis first-pers...
10 QUESTIONS FOR SETH GODIN
Seth Godin and I had a recent e-mail exchange. I asked him ten questions: — 1. QUESTION: Your latest book, "Small Is The New Big", is not a narrative or a thesis in any sense, but a collection of y...
Joystiq's own Chris G. sweats it out at the PAX new media panel
Our own Christopher Grant filled in today for an arguably hotter, but sadly absent, Frag Doll in PAX's "new media" panel on blogging, podcasts and other fancy publishing formats on them there Internet...
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's. — Sony has teamed up with US biologists who alre...
More thoughts on the ASUS R2H
I keep thinking about the forthcoming ASUS R2H UMPC a bit more. Why? Because it's the first UMPC that has an integrated GPS and 1.3 megapixel camera. This combination has me dreaming up some new us...
Windows Vista Build 5536 Review
And just like that, we can suddenly see the light at the end of the tunnel. All of our hopes, all of our worries, all of whatever feelings we may have for Windows Vista are hanging on the edge of a p...
Plextor preps 'world's smallest' external DVD burner
It looks like Plextor's going in for a piece of that "world's smallest" marketing action, with the launch of what it claims to be the most diminutive DVD writer currently on the market. Aimed at owne...
Journalistic Superiority at Work
[Could one of only two remaining daily British broadsheet newspapers be so desperate as to steal blog content?] — UPDATE: Melissa explains here. While yesterday I couldn't imagine a plausible expla...
Digg, trademarks, and confusion
A while ago our trademark attorney approached us and was concerned we could loose the name 'digg'. I had no idea this was possible as we had already filed for the trademark. Apparently if you don't ...
Announcing the Birth of Chumby
Favorite hardware hacker Bunnie Huang gave this year's FOO Campers a sneak peek of the latest in cool gadgets: the chumby. The chumby is a low-cost, wifi-enabled information delivery device that's so...
New toys - USB Skype phone
I've been testing an evaluation unit of the SkyTone USB Phone (RST102) from Radian Technologies, a conventional looking telephony handset with a USB cord designed to be used with Skype. It works very...
Looking For Failures
John Battelle follows on Paul Kedrosky's post Techcrunch party post on bubble 2.0 with a post about the lack of web 2.0 failures. — To all this discussion, I'll just simply add "just wait, they''ll ...
ADD MICROFORMATS MAGIC TO YOUR SITE
Heard of the semantic web? Using Microformats everyone can contribute to the richness of the web. John Allsopp explains how. — Think back to when you first began using the web. It might be a coup...