30 May, 2010
I was in college in New York City the first time I heard Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” It was the fall of 1991, and I vividly remember the song searing my eardrums in a club called The Building; the dance floor erupted into a euphoric mosh pit.
10 May, 2010
I’m not planning on buying an iPad… yet. I’ve played with one, and it truly isn’t much more than an XL iPod Touch. It’s a worthy first step. A very nice personal email, web browsing, casual gaming and photo/video viewing device. Emphasis on personal—the iPad is not built for sharing.
What’s missing at this point is how the iPad fits into the big picture in terms of the family media center. What’s lacking is the capability to access a network where data can be stored, streamed and shared among an authorized group of users. Apple’s iPad is piece of the puzzle (a puzzle that Apple’s engineers are undoubtedly working toward completing); I’d like to examine how the pieces will come together through ongoing developments in delivering high-bandwidth streaming media via wifi networks and data storage in the cloud.
29 Dec, 2009
This tweet from Rich Meyer got me thinking about the future of television:
As computer screens get bigger integration of TV and Web is moving closer to reality. Soon cable will offer Internet on TV.
WebTV (which has since been rebranded and dubbed MSN TV) has been around for ages, and hasn’t made much of a splash. The issue? WebTV got it backwards. Rather than bringing the web browser experience to a television (boring), the broadcast television model of the future will be based on a registration and subscription paradigm that the web has used since someone figured out they could use table cells to pimp out a web page layout.
