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Tivo is Dead, Long Live Tivo!

Tivo is Dead, Long Live Tivo!

By on November 2, 2008 in Next Tech

Since I started using Hulu and more recently learned about the open-source video aggregation software Miro and the video sharing plugin Kaltura, it seemed to me that Tivo’s days were numbered. Evidently I’m not the only one. In her Halloween post on the Wired Blog Network, Meghan Keane observes “the future of the company which [...]

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins

Top 10 WordPress Plugins

By on October 30, 2008 in Business & Marketing, Next Tech

WordPress — the open-source content management system that runs this site and millions of others around the world — is almost infinitely extensible, which was the intention of the development team from the beginning. One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the core code as light and fast as possible but to [...]

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Is it Time to Start a New Business?

By on October 24, 2008 in Next Tech

At the Dow Jones Media & Money conference last week, a panel of executives representing digital media developers, investors and advertisers debated whether it’s possible to start or grow an advertising-supported web service at a time when even huge corporations are challenged to survive. With the market down yet again today, some of their answers [...]

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Wordcamp NY 2008

By on October 13, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

The inspiration for my post Burning Down the TV came from Jen Simmons presentation at Wordcamp New York last Sunday. The other speakers that day included Matt Mullenweg, co-developer of WordPress and a partner in Automatic, bloggers Aaron Brazell and Shay David, Jeremy Clarke on running a blog network, and Jen on WordPress and video. [...]

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Burning Down the TV

By on October 7, 2008 in Next Tech

David Byrne sang about burning down the house and now it’s time for burning down the TV thanks to Miro, the open source video player. Think TIVO for web, but without buying any hardware or software (sorry AppleTV). Think millions of programs packaged as pre-programmed channels, or search the web and make a channel with [...]

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Hack the Debate

By on September 28, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

I trust you all tuned in last Friday night to see if McCain was going to show up? After such a tough week for the old maverick — suspending his campaign, parachuting into Washington, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative,  and keeping everyone guessing if we’d be watching Barack debate himself — it made for [...]

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The Beauty of Data

The Beauty of Data

By on September 17, 2008 in Next Tech

The art of data presentation is choosing a graphic method that makes your intention clear. As a followup to my recent posts on putting words into pictures, here’s a lengthy post on data visualization from Smashing ezine that’s an excellent reference to established and emerging techniques. Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There [...]

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The Global Market

By on September 11, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media, The Biosphere

Click image to stop on one picture, mouse up or down to pan, click again to continue. Here’s a whole new take on the global market and media mashups. This kaleidoscopic stream displays 35 images I shot at public markets in London, Seattle, New York City, in Ariquipa and Urubamba, Peru, and in Seine Bight, [...]

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Picture This…

By on September 6, 2008 in Next Tech

You pay local and (mostly) Federal taxes but where does it all go? Maybe you blow a tire on an interstate highway that’s full of potholes and needs fixing, lament the condition of your kid’s school, and shake your head as Dubya’ and his legions continue to divvy up the take to pay for their [...]

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Videogames Improve Cogniative Skills

Videogames Improve Cogniative Skills

By on August 18, 2008 in Games & Simulations, Next Tech

Playing video games “teaches skills that transfer to classroom, surgical procedures, scientific thinking…” according to the American Psychological Association, meeting in Boston this week. In a press release aggregating the results of several recent studies, the APA reports “Certain types of video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamers’ dexterity as well as their ability [...]

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Microblogging Goes Opensource

By on July 18, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

If you’ve noticed the right hand column of my site recently you know that sometime around the 4th of July I began tweeting on Twitter. Though I long eschewed it and still find it can be a time-sink, I’m beginning to see a place for microblogging: keeping up with friends; asking questions-to-the-universe that (sometimes) beget [...]

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Google Lively Goes Live

Google Lively Goes Live

By on July 9, 2008 in Next Tech, Social Media

I’m getting my first look at Google Lively tonight, the 3D virtual world/avatar chat environment they began anonymously testing on incoming students at Arizona State University last summer. My first impression: Second Life doesn’t have anything to worry about — yet — but I wouldn’t want to be on the other side of the field [...]

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