Donations Please :p

I got me a lunch date (via ebay), but the price is a bit steep. Its for 4 people, so we could, y’know, maybe pay like 6 grand (ouch) each? Shame, I’d rather have lunch with Mr. M than Keanu, Harrison or Brad. Don’t you just think he’d have the sexiest brain? Yep, a great…

Online Gamers Unmasked

At the BBC site, a photo album – Robbie Cooper has a fascinating “expose” (over used word but what the heck) of online gamers and their avatars. And w00t! One of the Lineage kings is there!Post here if you have ever met an ingame friend and how they compared to their avatar, ever thought that…

Its Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody… Dating and Games

I had mentioned to someone over coffee yesterday that the number one online community was roleplaying games and number two was umm the other roleplaying game – The Dating Game. This “friend” had the temerity to question my figures. After a violent debate where cups may have been broken, I thought I better go double…

Selfless Acts

I found an old interview with Dave Taylor (inventor of Elm Mail and Internet Mall), the interviewer is Doc Bob (Rankin). Doc: The visibility you’ve gained from the Internet Mall has certainly been “good for business”. Let’s be brutally honest- did you think at the outset that it might be a good tool to help…

One-stop Video Blogging

Funny I was on Six Apart’s website yesterday (I’m a big fan) and saw no sign of the VideoEgg partnership to deliver one stop video blogs from your mobile phone, webcam, camcorder, whatever. But the SocialSoftwareWebLog did! It works as a browser plug-in to capture footage directly from your webcam or camcorder (or cameraphone! yes!)…

Hey! Ho! Navio!

Publish Once, Sell Anywhere AV Publish, Navio’s core product, offers a powerful “publish once, sell anywhere” value proposition to content providers, media companies, mobile carriers, ISPs, and portals. AV Publish makes it easy to catalog digital goods, and to package rights to them as product offers. The key to “rights-based commerce,” these can be made…

Sun Microsystems again

Disruptive? us? At a Churchill Club event on October 26, 2005, Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun was interviewed by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief as Forbes. You can download the audio of the one-hour interview here. Schwartz reprises his usual, and perceptive, themes touting Sun’s vision and prejudices, such as how volume…