Looks to me like the MSN.com home page continues to be designed by committee. I switched to iGoogle as my landing page quite some time ago, and I've been very happy with the tabbed interface that lets me have lots of links and widgets without information overload. MSN would do well to follow the iGoogle lead and let users have more control over the quantity and arrangement of their content. But even with that improvement, I would consider MSN irrelevant at this point.
- Rob Witte
I've been waiting for this! Dropbox is my favorite cloud file service and now I can finally have it on my iPhone. Loaded it up and it works nicely.
- Rob Witte
An interesting perspective on Netbooks. I strongly agree with the author ... I don't NEED a netbook or tablet, but the portability is intriguing.
- Rob Witte
As I read more opinions, I'm warming to the idea of free distribution of apps on the iPhone. But I think there could be some value to a "certified" app tag that lets you know QA has been performed by a trusted entity (Apple or some other trusted source).
- Rob Witte
Finally, someone applying some sense to the "distractions of driving" laws. While I'm no fan of cellphone-stupid-drivers (you've seen them making blind lane changes, weaving, and more while yakking on their phone), I don't think it merits a law. If it does, then I would like to request a law to make the fat slob in front of me put away his big mac while driving!
- Rob Witte
Moving car sales online to eBay is a good start. I think this is an excellent choice for the used car market, but for new cars I believe the right answer is still to eliminate protective state dealership laws and allow the car companies to sell direct to consumers and allow some degree of customization for ordering (much like the process of buying a Dell computer online).
- Rob Witte
The 90's called ... they want their Internet business model back. The reason the WSJ is able to charge for their content is because it has a niche. General news content (ala Fox News) will not succeed under a paid model. Duh!
- Rob Witte
The twitter outage sent enough people scrambling to http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ that it took them down briefly, too. Facebook is also having slowness and page load failures. Social Media meltdown?
Twitter outage due to DDOS attack. "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly." http://status.twitter.com/
I believe the key to unlocking the eBook market is unlocking DRM (or at least standardizing it). While Sony's eBook looks enticing and B&N's might be nice, I have several books in Kindle format for my iPhone. Thinking I'm going to dump those for a shiny new reader i(other than a Kindle)? Not yet likely.
- Rob Witte
I love that this technology may be coming to the iPhone. Sadly, Netflix needs to bring more of their catalog to streaming before the service makes sense for my family. We tried it once before and found the limited titles available for streaming to be very frustrating.
- Rob Witte