Last Friday Sony PS3 owners received their Instant Streaming Discs. Over the weekend I put the service through its paces, spending a grueling amount of time watching TV. I make these sacrifices for you, dear reader.
Twitter feels more and more like an ecosystem these days. Twitter takes features out of clients and rolls them into the API. The client devs incorporate new Twitter features and then extend them. In the end, everybody wins!
Walmart has a couple of very interesting tech deals running this Saturday. Get a cheap laptop and find out how to update your old 360 for next to nothing through a scheme that only Rube Goldberg could love.
Yesterday Twitter finally starting rolling out its new Lists feature to all users (if your account isn't List-enabled yet it should be very soon). I take a quick look at what Lists offers and how it can be improved.
The rumored DSi with larger screens gets a name and launch date, and Nintendo posts some disappointing numbers. Are these two items connected? I think so.
The word around the blogs yesterday was that Nintendo is launching yet another Nintendo DS variant (#4, in case you haven't been keeping track), this one with slightly larger screens. How long will they milk this line of handhelds? It's time to innovate, Nintendo!
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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