March 30th, 2009 § § permalink
Gina “Lifehacker” Trapani wrote a post about Google Voice on SmarterWare in which she says:
Now that Google Voice supports SMS, you can send and receive text messages from your GV number as well, which is the last piece I needed to finally tell all my friends and family, “Here’s my new phone number.”
She’s been using GrandCentral since it came out, and only decided to switch completely with the addition of SMS. I’m pretty sure that when I get my iPhone (cross your fingers – any day now) I’ll just tell all my friends to send their text messages to my email address. Of course, then I’ll have to make sure to keep it less than 140 characters when I write them back, but at least I won’t have to give AT&T my wife’s arm and leg to pay for a text messaging plan.
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March 29th, 2009 § § permalink
Nels and Val posted a photo:
Bulls won 99-91 (aka: A No Free Big Macs Win)
March 23rd, 2009 § § permalink
According to TechCrunch, Hulu gained 10 million viewers in Feburary, which is an impressive number, but if you look at their chart, what I think is more impressive is the 64.5 minutes per viewer which is second in the top 10 behind only Google Sites (aka YouTube) which had 134 minutes, and 3.6 times more than the next highest average minutes per viewer in the top 10.
Maybe it’s because Hulu rocks the house. I wish CBS and ABC would take note. I would give them more advertising revenue that they are otherwise losing because I’d be all over the past 4 seasons of How I Met Your Mother and the last few episodes of LOST that I haven’t been able to watch yet (and I might even watch Wipeout if I could add it to my Hulu queue).
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March 12th, 2009 § § permalink
Harper’s Island is a murder mystery starting in April on CBS that will pair with webisodes and a social networking website to (hopefully) enhance the experience of viewing the program. You can click on the Harper’s Globe header above for a larger view that will reveal a little bit more of the social aspects of the site.
TechCrunch has a brief overview and intro clip for the new Harper’s Island combo web-TV show (as well as the teaser preview). The official CBS website has a different (and much less scary) intro clip. The main site associated with the web show and social network is Harper’s Globe. This seems like one of those things that I always want to get into but never have enough time to actually participate in (see also: Heroes Evolutions). I would probably enjoy the show anyway, even without the “new teevee” concept additions. The premise (if you haven’t already clicked on one of those other links) is that a bunch of people go to a destination wedding on an island near Seattle and get killed off one by one (one per episode).
NewTeeVee has info on the release dates of the webisodes and the broadcast episodes:
The online part of the show will debut on March 18, weeks before the show debuts on TV on April 9, and the old and newteevee shows will coexist throughout the show’s weekly run, which will conclude on July 2.
Now, if only CBS would get their shows on Hulu (sorry guys, Sling isn’t cutting it for me) so they’d get queued up for me automatically (I probably won’t be watching the show live since it’ll be too scary for my wife, and because we get really crappy reception for CBS). Supposedly, I’ll receive email alerts when new episodes are up, but I think that’s probably just for the webisode part. Hopefully they’ll keep more than just 2 most recent episodes on CBS (see also: How I Met Your Mother – which I would totally watch online now that CBS has a decent video player, but I’m 3 seasons behind and they don’t have 97% of what I need to watch).
Last up, SciFiWire has an interview with the producers which doesn’t really reveal all that much more about the show, but re-emphasizes the points made in the other posts above.
March 11th, 2009 § § permalink
Before this preview, I was like “Okay, cool, the story of Wolverine” … but now it looks like they added at least 4 or 5 more characters… So, this movie is going to be like 4 hours long now? Because I was pretty sure that Wolverine’s backstory (including childhood) would take up 1.5 to 2 hours by itself.
