Two relatively new websites that I can’t live without. Songza Songza puts every other online music service to shame. It’s of questionable legal nature, but poses no risk to end users. Songza indexes the web for unprotected MP3s and lets the user play them in an extremely elegant flash interface. It’s not possible to download [...]
Google makes its money from advertising. Everyone knows this. Earlier today, Firefox was not rendering a page correctly, so I switched over to Internet Explorer hoping it would. As I did so, something dawned upon me: I haven’t seen an online advertisement in over three years, let alone clicked one. For example, one website that [...]
Next time you are lonely and decide to call a phone sex hotline, please realize that “Sparkles” is actually one of them: Slideshow of photos of phone sex operators by Phillip Toledano.
With all this iPhone nonsense buzzing around the world today, you may have missed a huge decision. In Quanta v. LG Electronics, the Supreme Court ruled that a company can’t enforce patents down the supply chain, when a customer purchases a full licensed product from one of the patent holders licensees. LG wanted to collect [...]
I will be buying an iPhone on July 11th. At a $199 price point, it’s affordable to have both my blackberry for work and an iPhone for my adventures. I had bought a iPhone 1.0 and returned it after being slightly disappointed. Let’s see how long this lasts. On a less serious note, sure Mr. [...]
Warren Buffet has bet the principal in the hedge fund Protégé Partners, that an S&P 500 Index Fund will yield higher returns than the net average returns (less management fees) of any five hedge funds of his choice. The amount of the bet: $1m and the proceeds going to charity. – Fortune
“This is the biggest thing I’ve experienced at Staples Center since it opened,’ said Tim Leiweke, president of AEG, owner and operator of the arena. ‘We’ve had the Grammys, concerts, championship fights, figure skating and the Pac 10 tournament along with the five teams that play here, but I’ve never seen anything like this… . [...]
For those of you who like to be ahead of the curve, access your facebook account via http://www.new.facebook.com. It gives you a preview of the new version of the facebook design that is due to be released in the upcoming weeks. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I like the lack of [...]
Forget the fact that there is rising demand all over the world and exporters are shipping less. Let’s just blame the “failed” Bush energy plan and come up with silly ideas like a “gas tax holiday”.