September 2011
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NASA Invites Twitter Followers to View Next Launch... →
There are no more space shuttle launches to witness, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration seems to spend more time tracking things falling from the sky than launching them. However, NASA is still busy boosting smaller, unmanned payloads into space, each of them tasked with st…
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WatchThis should be an exciting event. I’ll be there on 9/20/2011 chatting with Lance Armstrong about the evolution of LIVESTRONG’S outreach, from the iconic, yellow wristband to the organization’s current social media campaign.
It’s also a rare opportunity to see two Lances on stage.
mashable:
Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation are thrilled to kick off the second...
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I’ve Got An Awesome New Job
I used to be a little jealous of Mashable. The site came out of nowhere in 2005 and instantly tapped into the social zeitgeist. It was constantly breaking stories about hot social properties like Twitter and Facebook and had a highly engaged and active readership. It had a sense of fun and a need to do good. It was, in essence, virtually unlike any other site or blog I knew on the Web. Now, as...
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9/11: What I Remember Most
I remember many things that day, but these are the vignettes that remain.
A clear blue sky and crisp cool air. A perfect fall day, though it was still summer.
Hearing the news of the first plane crashing into the North Tower World Trade Center (over AOL Instant Messager).
Seeing the second plane strike the South Tower live on the news and knowing we were under attack.
The panicked, near...
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Can Windows 8 Survive Without the Registry?
Ever since Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky declared, “Windows 8 reimagines Windows,”, I’ve been pondering the unimaginable: Windows without the Registry. Let’s forget the alternative processor platforms and Windows tablets. Those are all well and good, but nothing will rock the Windows world more than a retiring of that massive, hiearchical sub-system list that tells Windows about...
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Found Video: The 2001 Spider-Man Trailer Featuring...
With the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 Terror Attacks approaching, I’ve been looking through my old computer folders, trying to locate files and images from the period, bits of data that might help me remember what I was seeing, thinking, feeling in the days immediately before, during and after the attacks. In my quest, I stumbled across this video.
Spider-Man was one of the most...
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Basement "Dig" Uncovers Classic Technology
Deep in the corner of my basement sat a bag I hadn’t touched in years. Emblazoned with the long-defunct COMDEX logo, it had to be filled with either a rats nest of tangled computer cables or a forgotten peripheral. Either way, it was dusty, buried and easy for me to ignore for the better part of a decade. Lately, though, I’ve had some time on my hands, so I decided to pull out the...
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Bartz Exit Sets the Stage for a Yahoo-Microsoft...
It’s time. Carol Bartz’ sometimes contentious and not entirely unsuccessful five-year-run as CEO is over and the Yahoo management team is searching for a new CEO. Whoever they find should have one job, and one job only: Selling Yahoo! to Microsoft.
I’m serious. It’s the only way Yahoo! can survive and thrive—or at least the only way all the products and services...
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Tube TVs Hang On, While HDTVs Wait in the Wings
According to figures from the data research firm DisplayResearch, HDTV sales have been fairly weak for the better part of 2011 (and weren’t much better in 2010). Those number could indicate saturation for the flat screen market, or simply a trough. Based on my totally anecdotal poll, I’m now convinced this is a trough and that flat screen sales could accelerate again in the next few...
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Are You Still Watching TV on the Tube?
As I stood in my basement the other day, book ended by two no-longer-used tube TVs, I began to wonder if we as a nation (and a world) reached that tipping point, where in-use HDTVs outnumbered still-in-use tube TVs in the home. I know that most tech-savvy folks have already made the switch, but I also realize that geeks are in the minority. Plus, tube TVs can last, like, forever. I’m sure...
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What the iPhone 5 Abduction Teaches Us
This year’s Apple iPhone 5 bar story isn’t as dramatic or exciting as last year’s fracas. The loss, sale and subsequent reveal of the iPhone 4 prototype by Gizmodo stunned the tech world and Apple. The reaction this time is a fair bit less heated; more like, “Really? Again? What are the odds?” The actual iPhone 5 will likely emerge direct from Apple within a month and by then this will all be...
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My Slow, Sad Breakup with Netflix
And so, Netflix, it’s come to this: You are now no different to me than any other streaming, video-on-demand service. No more physical DVDs. No more marveling at your national shipping, mailing and receiving prowess. Early today, I switched from the one-DVD-at-a-time and Unlimited Streaming plan to just the Unlimited Streaming Plan. In doing so, I don’t save any money. I simply...
