By Krista on Nov 6, 2006 in Trends, Video Games | 0 Comments
iTWire has some interesting thoughts on what the video game market will be like this holiday season. Like everyone else, they’re predicting a shortage and cite ridiculous prices on ebay for Playstation 3 presales. They mention final prices are going for as high as $2000 - BusinessWeek cites one that went for $3250 + shipping! Right now, the steady bidding seems to price the machines at between $1000-1400. Given the last minute bidding frenzy that seems to come with any eBay auction, it wouldn’t surprise me that they’re going for $2000… $3250 is a bit harder to imagine. Read the rest
By Krista on Nov 5, 2006 in Gadgets, Trends | 3 Comments
The Nov 2006 issue of Computer Shopper describes the face off between HD DVD and Blu Ray as a successor to the standard DVD. Their conclusion? Wait and see which ends up on top.
Here are the pros and cons of each as I see them: Read the rest
By Krista on Aug 27, 2006 in Trends, Web 2.0 | 0 Comments
Guy Kawasaki recently posted this video of the Churchill Club’s look at “Startup Success.” Panelists include the CEOs from Personal News Network, LinkedIn, JotSpot, Jajah, and Photobucket.
The CEO of JotSpot, Joe Kraus, formerly founded and sold Excite.com quoted a VC at Mobius Venture Capital when he defined Web 2.0 as “Ajax, Adsense, and Arrogance,” which I thought was pretty funny. He then when on to discuss how the Web 2.0 boom is different from the dotcoms of the 90s - mainly that access to cheap labor and hardware drive down costs so it feels like a “return to entrepreneurship” and a “return to doing it for the love of it.” Read the rest
By Krista on Aug 14, 2006 in Computers, Gadgets, Trends | 0 Comments
According to Gartner, your laptop has a much greater chance of breaking than your desktop. They estimate that 5% of new desktops will break within 12 months compared with 15% of laptops. Within 4 years, 12% of desktops will break compared with 22% of laptops.
The main cause of broken laptops used to be broken screens but now, the culprit seems to be the motherboard and its integrated parts - and that’s requiring technicians to replace the entire motherboard to fix one component that goes bad. Read the rest
By Krista on Aug 1, 2006 in Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment
Tonight, Stephen Colbert discussed how Wikipedia is influencing culture on his show. After saying something to the effect of
I love Wikipedia: any site that has a longer entry on truthiness than on Lutherans has its priorities straight.
He then went on to make a point that Wikipedia reports “facts” as a collection of ideas that a group of people agree with. Read the rest
