Friday, June 26, 2009 was a day many of us won’t forget.  The top story throughout the news media was the death of some super famous celebrity, but it wasn’t the only thing that was on the mind of music fans. One of my favorite bands, Phish, unveiled a flash movie on its homepage, to “Save The Date” for a three day weekend festival, to take place over the Halloween weekend.  [...]

1. Important documents about Twitter’s business strategy (or lack of it) were leaked for the world to see.  Somebody hacked into the Google docs account of one of Twitter’s employees.  They are afraid of Facebook and do NOT want to be associated with Microsoft. 2. Apple released a pair of software updates, pissing off people.  Now, you can’t tether your non-jailbroken iphone or [...]

This past Monday, Tim Horton’s, the Canadian coffee and donut chain opened its first few stores in the New York City area. All of them are in former Dunkin Donuts locations in the vicinity of Penn Stations owned by Riese Restaurants. How did I find out about this?  Twitter, of course!  One of the tweeters who I regularly follow mentioned about this, and linked to a coupon for a free $5 gift [...]

In the past 24 hours, I have been running a reboot of my Twitter account.  I had about 1800 followers, and was following 1600 accounts myself.  However, I’ve been finding my Twitter feed to be less and less valuable than it previously was. I joined Twitter in the summer of 2007, after hearing so many good things about it from social media icon Chris Brogan.  I started following him, along [...]

1. Wednesday was 07/08/09, at least according to the US calendar.  There was 12:34:56 on 07/08/09 as well as 4:56 on 07/08/09, amongst the many other number combinations available.  What was your favorite? 2. Google announced its own operating system, called Chrome.  Sound familiar?  It is also the name of their web browser, which currently isn’t ready for prime time on my OS of choice, Mac. 3. [...]

A few months ago, NBC Universal announced that the Science Fiction Channel, better know in recent years as just SciFi, announced they would change their name.  What would this name be?  Syfy.  It has the same pronounciation as its predecessor, but spelled differently. There are people who don’t like it.  What is a Syfy?  But I do.  Why?  SciFi is a generic term.  By using a made up name [...]

ESPN has become quite powerful in the past decade.  They constantly are buying into new sports properties, like the NBA and English Premiership football.  Over the next few years, the Bowl Championship Series will be moving from its current broadcast networks of Fox and ABC, to the friendly cable confines of ESPN. ESPN may actually be doomed in the next few years. Why?  The reason why they have [...]

Why does Time Warner and Comcast, the two largest pay-TV providers in the US feel compelled to attempt such a service?  The internet has broken multiple status quos of the entertainment industry.  It started in the late 90s, with the digitization of music, and the illegal distribution of it through Napster, and other Peer to Peer networks.  As connection speeds grew faster and bandwidth got cheaper, [...]

Time Warner and Comcast are starting a new streaming media initiative called TV Everywhere.  This service will provide full length episodes of TV series online.   With a catch. Sound familiar?  Internet users already have a number of options to watch TV shows online, usually in full screen quality and even High Definition, depending on the series/network/distributor.  In 2007, NBC Universal and [...]