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How The Web Will Reinvent Broadcast Television

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.
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My Take on Riding The Google Wave

1 Dec, 2009

It’s been exactly two months since I received my Google Wave preview invitation, and began playing with the application.  Here’s my take on using Wave to date – the good, the bad and yes, I have invitations for those of you who still feel like they can’t live without it.

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Whole Foods – Using Twitter The Right Way

26 Nov, 2009

After dropping the kids off at school yesterday, I headed to our local Whole Foods Market to pick up the Thanksgiving turkey.  Fortunately, I made it into the store just as it opened, beat the crowd and left unscathed – poultry in hand.

Prior to driving away from the store, I posted the following to my Twitter account:

So I went to @wholefoods this morning, and one of their employees gave me the bird. Happy Thanksgiving

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