Having worked in electronics retail for many years, I know that cutting edge products will always drop in price and that first gen. products will always improve with later releases. Even if I weren’t in the middle of a Sprint contract, I personally would have waited. Still, there were hundreds of thousands of people that purchased iPhone’s. The fact that Steve Jobs and Apple will offer customers who paid $599 for their iPhone a $100 credit is amazing. Kudos to Apple for listening to their customers and actually doing something about it.
Category: Web
Warner Brothers Animation to Launch T-Works
I’m not sure exactly what it is, but Warner Brothers T-Works sounds interesting. Warner’s animation library is equaled only by Hanna-Barbera, so it’s definitely a smart move to leverage that library as one property, rather than continue to split it up piece by piece. T-Works sounds like a MySpace, SecondLife, YouTube environment all rolled into one with a backbone of Warner animation characters. I guess we’ll have to wait until 2008 to see, but I’m definitely interested to learn a little more.
Resizer Technology for Images
This has got to be one of the coolest image editing innovations ever. Evidently, one of the developers of this technology has been hired by Adobe. Let’s hope this is added to Photoshop, or maybe even better, as a plug-in.
How Hard Is It – part 1?
YouTube Spam – Seriously, how hard is it to implement a filter to keep people from posting their URL/Cam Site names as comments on my video posts. Any given day I can check and 1/3 of my new comments will be spam. Marking it spam never seems to work and I swear that if I mark it as spam, it reappears the next time I check the post.
Come on YouTube, let’s get some seriously good comment spam protection going.
Badly Formatted Top 10 Lists – You know that a good list (Top 10 Ways, Best, Most Sucessful, etc.) will get you on Digg no problem, but formatting that list with only one entry per page means that I probably won’t read it. How hard is it to make something easy to read? Do you want to turn away readers?
Here’s a good list – ASME’s Top 40 Magazine Covers and a bad list – AOL Money & Finance: Most Successful Movie Franchises.
Guess which one I read?
Chocolate Rain by Chad Vader
Not as funny as the original, but wait for the first breath and tell me you didn’t laugh. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Chocolate Rain.