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Skype or FaceTime for TV?
So an update to Skype appeared in the App Store today apparently increasing the range of devices that iPhone (and iPod touch) users can carry on video conversations with. The big thing seems to be the ability to chat with folks on Skype for TV. As an added bonus, Skype 3.0.1 no longer simply crashes-on-launch with iOS 4.3.
I saw Skype for TV being demoed by companies such as Panasonic while I was at CES, and while it’s an interesting concept, I’m wondering if it’s one of these things that will ever see any meaningful mass-market adoption, or if it will simply fall into the category of yet-another-thing-that-nobody-needs-built-into-their-TV.
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...and now back to you, Tumblr
I’ve had an old self-hosted Wordpress blog for about five years now that I’ve made about a half-dozen posts on and otherwise neglected. Last year I started to look at Posterous and Tumblr as nice, in-between blogging services. I signed up for both, but for reasons I can’t quite remember, I started using Posterous more, I think mostly because I found the post-by-email idea to be somewhat appealing, and liked its clean design.
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Rick's Rant: Snow Day
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Special Report: Snow in Toronto
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An average person's take on Google TV
Last night my wife and I were relaxing and surfing through some YouTube videos on the couch, courtesy of our Apple TV and AirPlay from our respective iPhones. A funny spoof from The Onion about a new Sony product prompted me to find a couple of demo videos of the new Google TV boxes to show my wife. The first few I stumbled across were some basic “everyman” reviews of the Sony Internet TV box. These reviews were posted by average nerds on YouTube as opposed to major review sites, but they got the general message across and ranged from extolling the virtues of having your TV on a Google-connected world to questioning the sanity of having such a device in the living room.
As I was showing my wife these videos I pointed out many of the cool things you can do on the TV screen while watching a movie or TV show, such as searching for more information on Google and interacting with Facebook and Twitter.
After patiently sitting through all of this for about a half-hour, my wife’s response was “If you connect one of those things to our TV I will hurt you.”
Enough said.