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Archive for the ‘Emerging Earth’ Category

February 26th, 2007

Yahoo Screws Up Bookmarks Again with Their New Toolbar

 
It appears that Yahoo has done it again and updated their software and eliminated the ability for me to use it the way I would prefer. I’ve written previously about my experience with their new toolbar and my dissatisfaction with said “new” features here, here, here and here.
Because of my previous frustrations, I choose to […]

By Jason -- 4 comments

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 14th, 2007

Google Loses Belgium Copyright Battle

Should Google and any other search engine for that matter have the right to grab any content off the web and include it in their search results? My opinion is that if it’s published on the web, then yes. I’m not sure what the problem is. Erik Schonfeld seems to agree on the Business 2.0 […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

February 13th, 2007

E-mail Trio: Gmail, Yahoo!, Live/Hotmail

I’ve been in my main three webmail accounts quite a bit here over the past few days and I’ve noticed that there’s becoming more of a gap between all three than a convergence.
There was a point where I was getting ready to give up my Yahoo! Mail account for my Gmail one as my primary. I […]

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

Stikkit - Great, but let’s take it a step further

I recently highlighted an interesting little application called Stikkit on my Uncover the Internet site. I found the original application from Merlin Mann’s 43 Folders site for general life productivity and hacking tips.
As I began to share in my Uncover the Internet post, but decided to stay on topic there and share my thoughts here […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

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 18th, 2007

Firefox Continues to Grab Marketshare

Firefox is now up to 14% of the browser market and IE continues to lose ground. Mark Evan’s believes it’s all because of upgrade fatigue and people are just tired of upgrading their browser. I’m not sure if this can be the case since Firefox has had more releases in their history than IE has […]

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 14th, 2007

TiVo Powered Comcast Motorola DVR

 
Lot’s of news from CES over the last few days, but the thing that excites me maybe the most is that the TiVo powered Comcast DVR isn’t too far away. We’ll see how soon I can get my hands on it here in the Indianapolis market. You can be sure I’ll let you know about […]

By Jason -- 1 comment