Posts under ‘Commentary’

As I posted a few months back, I hesitantly laid down $300 recently to pick up an iPhone.
It’s an awful phone, but a great little device for everything else.
The iPhone app store offers a ton of free apps for all kinds of uses. Most of the free apps (and probably the paid) are garbage, [...]

Update: Turns out this news was bogus.  Jim Goldman over at Tech Check (CNBC) contacted Google and Google completely denied the rumor.  Here is the link to Jim Goldman’s CNBC article.
Rumors are swirling that Google will be ending its free dinner service for employees and that the announcement will be made today to staff.
The stories of [...]

I heard about AT&T’s new tech support service ConnecTech last week and thought it was a lost cause. Hoping to make money in home-based tech support seems tricky. I did it for a few years in the late nineties and any sort of flat rate service plan is likely to be a losing [...]

Google Adsense’s reporting interface has been down for the better part of the day today.  This isn’t the first time either.  I usually check Adsense every few hours to see if I’ve received any clicks and its often down for several hours at a time with no custom message indicating when it may be back [...]

Despite this week’s release of updated firmware for the 3g iPhone, the device still sucks as a phone.
Great as an Internet device, it’s poor reception, awkward form factor and terrible battery life leave me wishing I still had my trusty E815 motorola for my everyday talking, texting machine.

Seth Godin has a simple, yet fantastic, post over on his blog today that every corporate communications person ought to read. 
The premise is simple.  You should make it really easy for your customers to contact you.  If you send them an email, accept email responses, have someone read them, and reply to your customers’ requests.  [...]

Do you know your neighbors?   Would they notice if something happened to you?  Is the lack of community creating a serious safety concern in our neighborhoods? 
I went to a Green building workshop two weeks ago sponsored by Seattle area’s Reach Returns and a hot topic in green building is constructing “cottage neighborhoods”.  These little neighborhoods are usually [...]

Today brought the news of Cuil’s launch and I’m excited.
Cuil doesn’t have to be awesome, it just needs to be decent and disruptive. Google has been on top for a long time now and there is a need for some fresh change.  The group of ex-Googlers that started Cuil are getting a ton of press [...]

I watched a couple episodes of The Soprano’s over the weekend.  I’m only on season three, but I’m making progress.  Episode 29, “Fortunate Son”, features Christopher getting a little behind on his payments to Paulie and having to find a creative way to come up with $4000 in a week.  While I don’t advocate taking [...]

I made the mental leap to buy an iPhone over the weekend.  My current Motorola flip phone is starting to get worn out and the new phone has a couple nice features such as a faster internet connection than the prior iPhone and GPS capabilities.  My contract with Verizon is up and, since they haven’t gone out [...]