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MSI X-Slim X320, X340 and GT725 hands-on {Engadget}
Mar 3rd 2009 2:36PM I've got a Wind which runs Leopard perfectly. Come April, I'll be enjoying my X-Slim running OSX as well :)
Peek: the handheld that does e-mail, and only e-mail {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 20th 2008 9:07PM Sounds like they couldn't get the price down, at $49, these things would be selling like crazy, at $99, it's gonna sit on the shelves
Palm Treo Pro unboxing and hands-on {Engadget Mobile}
Aug 20th 2008 9:03PM squeee!
Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass {Blog Maverick}
Jun 17th 2008 6:04PM The interesting question this raises is whether there is a point of diminishing returns in raw eyeball aggregation for advertising purposes. There's no implicit reason advertising will "just work" if you throw enough traffic at it, unless you're operating under the Brownian Motion theory of Internet adversting, which a lot of people do. Google's search ads don't work because they've got lots of traffic, they work because there's context and intent. YouTube may be successful, but viewers of it don't have anywhere near the level of context and intent that search does. It's the same challenge as a social network or any other situation of casual usage where there isn't any commercial intent that's reflected by the information being consumed by the users. At least, Hulu is able to use the huge audience demographics data to assist in it's ad targeting.
Hulu is kicking Youtube's Ass {Blog Maverick}
Jun 17th 2008 2:55PM I never go to YouTube for professional content that Google has the right to, I only occasionally watch illegal professional content on the service. Unless you're one of the few extremists who forswear professionally-produced content, you have to acknowledge that YouTube is terrible for it. I really don't understand why Google has fanboys like most of the pro-YouTube commentors, I guess that's just the way the net works, everyone gets a fanboy. Hulu, on the other hand, does what it does well, and just as importantly, works as a viable business *right now* for all participants. The users get the video they want, the company gets the advertising revenue it needs, the advertisers get a format they can work with. Like it or not, if you're talking about a business success with online video, the poster child is Hulu at the moment, not YouTube, which Google themselves are saying they don't yet know how to monetize. Given that it will take Google at least a year to address the challenges of becoming a destination site for professional content and in monetizing it fairly, this gives Hulu at least a year's head start at building the business. I think it's really exciting to see a major new category where the cash-rich monopolist incumbent (Google) is being given a run for their money by a much smaller startup and seems incapable of responding. Renews my faith that competition works.
iClooly iPod touch stand hopes to be an iMac when it grows up {Engadget}
Jun 5th 2008 5:15PM I really like this, I hope it works with iPhone too. BTW, that crazy PED3 stand some people are linking to is fugly. Why would you buy a beautiful iPod and put it on an ugly stand, sort of defeats the purpose. Either get this one or get no stand are my choices.
