Archive for December 7th, 2007

Web 2.0 Naming

[Steve Pogue] These days, startups take the lazy way out: they choose goofy-sounding nonsense words. They think they’re being clever by being unclever.
These are all actual Web sites that have hit the Web in the last year or so: Doostang. Wufoo. Bliin. Thoof. Bebo. Meebo. Meemo. Kudit. Raketu. Etelos. Iyogi. Oyogi. Qoop. Fark. Kijiji. Zixxo. [...]

Tivo HD and CableCARD Success

Since the TiVo is one of the few devices in our house that has a high Wife-Acceptance-Factor (WAF), I’m always very cautious when I start to get the itch to upgrade our family room’s entertainment “system”. Even though we have a HD capable TV, we’ve been stuck on SD in there for a long time [...]