Category Archives: Hype

Windows 7 - a whole lot of assumptions so far

May 27, 2008 – 7:48 pm

Today must have been let’s flood the blogosphere today with a whole lot of nothing day as it seemed to be all about Windows 7 on just about every Windows oriented blog that I read. Admittedly I am a Windows OS user who hasn’t been the most impressed with Vista and I really have [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Microsoft |

$4.2 Million valuation for Twirl

April 26, 2008 – 12:47 am

I just saw this popup on FriendFeed and rubbed my eyes. They couldn’t be serious - $4.2 for a freeware application (Twhirl) that only exists because of another service; Twitter, that could very well be heading into some extremely stormy water itself. So I clicked through to Loic Le Meur’s blog and found the [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

4,000 new users - someone pass the aspirin

April 25, 2008 – 7:24 pm

I just saw this floating around FriendFeed as several folks linked to different reports of the same thing. That being that Salesforce.com is rumored to be ditching the PC platform and moving all their 4,000 employees onto brand new Macs. Apparently this is being done for the singular reason of security with the thinking [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Apple, Internet |

Video comments - another case of "just because we can"

April 24, 2008 – 9:46 pm

I can see the tsunami wave of adoption building now ever since TechCrunch announced that it was going to be adding support for video comments to posts. I am seeing a few more posts showing up discussing the whole idea but for me it is just another matter of doing it because we can. [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Internet |

What is a blogger worth - what are my words worth?

April 13, 2008 – 6:50 pm

There is no doubt that blogging has changed especially within the compressed Internet timeline where news can be found first on Twitter before it even makes mainstream news sites like CNN. Bloggers were among the first to realize and in many cases successfully capitalize on the brand that their name and content had become. [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Internet |

OMG! I’m gonna die

April 5, 2008 – 11:50 pm

I’m sorry but this is some of the stupidest, lamest and idiotic headline grabbing piece of trash that I have seen in a while. It might be a headline one would expect from National Enquirer or even The Globe but to have the New York Times come up with a headline like In Web [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |

Conference of egos

April 3, 2008 – 6:35 pm

In an environment that is meant to be the breeding ground that show cases the best of start ups the conferences that dot the calendars throughout Silicon Valley and the rest of the tech world the opening shots of a Tolkien One Conference to rule them all has been sounded.
In an interview on c|net news.com [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Internet |

I wouldn’t dance on the A-List grave just yet

March 28, 2008 – 4:46 pm

I just spotted a message posted by Steve Rubel on Twitter where he was pointing to a fresh post on the Broadstuff blog titled Here’s another profession that might disappear in which Alan Patrick proclaims that the end is in sight when it comes to all those A-List tech bloggers out there.
As Alan puts [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |