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07 Mar 2011 No Comments
in Made Me Laugh, Technology, Web Tags: comic, humor, truth
Hulu Plus; more of the same
29 Jun 2010 No Comments
in Rants, Technology, Video, Web Tags: business, hulu, television
Is it any wonder broadcasters are afraid of the Internet? They don’t even understand it. Exhibit most recent: Hulu Plus, a $10 per month service which allows you to watch current and back-catalogs of television shows like X-Files, Modern Family, and others. Oh, wait, a $10 per month “ad-supported” service, something Hulu considers “revolutionary” and a price-point about which they’re “thrilled”.
Which would be great if they only had to eat their own dog food. But here in the real world, with services like Netflix already providing ad-free streaming (to more devices), the value proposition for Hulu Plus seems smaller. Add to this the ability to already see the same shows available on Hulu Plus through regular Hulu (with the same ads), things are looking oddly… off.
The big sell here is that you can watch all currently available episodes of a show, not just the three or five trailing episodes many shows currently allow. But, with movie studios clinging to old markets and training consumers that they’re going to have to wait for releases, people using the convenience of the Internet to view media are more and more willing to wait.
Essentially, Hulu Plus is almost 3 years too late with this idea. The market has better offerings with more value. Unfortunately, if Hulu Plus fails, look for calls of piracy and consumer readiness as reasons. Never mind the complete lack of any value presented and the complete ignorance of what consumers actually want.
Get rid of that stupid Slashdot comment section in your RSS feed
12 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Signs of the Horsemen, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: cruft, idiocy, rss, slashdot
Slashdot recently began embedding this ridiculous comment section in their RSS feed. To get rid of it, add this to your favorite ad blocking extension:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*
I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.
Galactica: Sabotage
11 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Cool!, Music, Video, Web Tags: awesome, battlestar galactica, beastie boys, bsg, Video
Because it technically hasn’t been everywhere, Galactica: Sabotage:
Wired also talked to the creator, Katie King.
Pretty much
17 Dec 2009 No Comments
in Made Me Laugh, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: bears, cthulu, humor, satire
Inspired by a completely idiotic bit of fear mongering on the local “news” tonight.
Still not scared? Alrighty then.
Thanks reddit.
The Announcement That Made History
05 Nov 2008 No Comments
in Politics, Web Tags: election, Obama, Politics
I also find it telling that I found out watching a comedy television show while monitoring the election on the major networks’ websites.
Remember Cuil? Yeah, no else does either
24 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Technology, Web Tags: Cuil, search
According to the latest figures for the end of August the Cuil market share has dropped to, well, just about nothing at all. Net Applications has the market share being a very meagre 0.01 percent. At least it is a very steady 0.01 percent though.
The article points out the obvious problem: their search results suck. Aside from a disasterous rollout in July, the technology was hyped so high didn’t even come close to delivering on it’s promise.
And in the “huh” factor, reading this article made me say to myself, “Oh yeah, they did spring up not that long ago, didn’t they. Oh well.” And off I went to Google.
Google Chrome
02 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Technology, Web Tags: browsers, chrome, Google, shiny, Web
Played with it tonight a bit. It’s freakin’ fast, especially for Google apps (natch). I like the new car smell it gives off, could do without the comic.
It feels like Firefox 3.0, but I think that was the point. No add-ons (yet, I assume), but it’s a beta. A nice, solid beta for a change. I love the fact that each tab has it’s own process; very interesting possibilities for developing on a web app with multiple security roles.
But, I can’t say it any better than the chief cynic and anti-plug of all things shiny, Alan.
If the Google Chrome concept is Firefox w/o the dev team’s intellectual clutter from XUL plus the backing of Google, we have a new platform. [twitter]
Indeed. Go kick the tires.
Petty Annoyance with Gmail
02 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Technology, Web Tags: annoyances, email, Gmail, Technology, Web
I have no idea if this is something that I’m not configuring properly, but why, when I click on a link to a new email in various desktop notifier’s does the email message open in Gmail without the complete interface? For instance, when I click the new mail notification in Digsby, the window/tab that opens looks like this:
Most of the Gmail interface is missing. I’m not picking on Digsby here because I’ve seen the same behavior from half a dozen Vista/Konfabulator widgets or gadgets or whatever the frak we’re calling them this week. In fact, I like Digsby a bit more because if I double-click, I get the main Gmail window. It doesn’t open the message in the full interface, but it’s better than being stuck with the options in the screen cap above. How do I delete this message? How do I go to the next message? How do I get back to my Inbox?
Is this a Gmail thing? Firefox? Anyone know how to solve this insignificant annoyance in my life?