Trying to Concentrate

This product looks like an iPod shuffle killer. These companies need to do what Apple did. Get people using their software first, then sell them a player. Until they do that, and do it with some success, I predict Apple remains the winner in this market.

According to this Arizona Republic article, Phoenix is now the #2 most connected city in America. That’s surprising considering that Phoenix is fifth in terms of population. The article also talks about VOIP which is something I want to switch to this year for my business line. www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0407voip07.html Last year Nielsen/Net Ratings ranked Phoenix second…

I’ll be at Refresh Phoenix tonight. Sean Tierney from Grid7 will be speaking (he’s a cool guy and he’s stopped by the Tornado office a few times). I’ve not yet mentioned Refresh Phoenix on BrainFuel but it’s a project by Aaron Post (also a cool guy) and the gang at 30 Second Rule. I posted…

Google just announced that they’ve moved Google Earth out of beta and also just released the Mac version. Way to go, Google.

Would you ever be able to justify using a 50mbps download speed connection? You would be able to download 24 hours worth of music in about 8 minutes at that speed. That’s amazing. Is it really necessary though? What’s too-fast? There’s some good discussion and a good post about this topic up at Om Malik’s…

I wish to dispel a myth that is rapidly spreading and must admit that I didn’t verify the facts myself the first few times I heard it. The myth of 99.9% uptime. People are saying that the 0.1% represents 8 whole days of downtime a year. That is not true at all! The truth is:…