netflix.com Director of Product Management Jamie O’Dell announced today that the company will no longer allow customers to add physical DVDs to their queue from streaming devices such as the PS3 and iPhone. The claim is that they are trying to “concentrate on offering you the titles that are available to watch instantly.” The powers-that-be at ( Read more... )

I get a ton of emails each day.  Newsletters, advertisements, actual valuable work info, etc.  Several weeks ago I got a newsletter/advertisement email that contained this story.  Then today I got the same message... believing that things don't just happen.  I thought I should share the story.  Hope you enjoy!

The older I get, the more I enjoy ( Read more... )

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We were promised some big news from Twitter yesterday, but what it rolled out actually exceeded my expectations. New Twitter, the latest version of the Twitter home page, actually looks really strong. And for the first time it could mean that serious Twitter users start looking beyond third party apps like Seesmic, Tweetdeck and my favorite ( Read more... )

In Philippians Paul says, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” These seem to be among the hardest commands in Scripture to carry out. Partly, this is true because humans are ( Read more... )

It's not the sort of thing you expect from Apple and certainly not from the beautiful smooth-running iPhone 4, but turns out there's a hardware flaw. And if Apple don't issue a recall to fix it, you might have to do it yourself, maybe with some duct tape.

It's to do with the stainless steel strip around the outside, the externalised aerial. If ( Read more... )

Hulu's move to start a pay service for $9.99 a month isn't new in the world of television. It actually follows one of the now-oldest alternative platforms of TV, which really got going in the late '70s: pay cable TV networks.
And while some may complain about Hulu's move, here is the good news for media executives: the pay TV platform is ( Read more... )

"NBC congratulates Conan": That's the official statement from the Peacock Network.

Yeah. But I'm sure we won't see any NBC on-air promos to that effect.

Snickers all around, I'm sure.

In an unusual Emmy marketing campaign, TBS -- who will get the services of Conan O'Brien come the fall -- manages to reap the rewards in getting O'Brien ( Read more... )

Everyone knows how bad the BP oil spill is by now. But apparently it didn't have to be this bad. After it happened, Holland (who has an intense oil clean-up system in place) offered the U.S. its full services to clean up almost all of the oil. Only the U.S. said "no" because "really clean" isn't clean enough ...

This is frustrating-apparently ( Read more... )

One intrepid fellow figured out a way to mod his vintage iBook into an iPad case, complete with room for a hardware keyboard. I applaud his ingenuity as I've always loved that clamshell (I wanted orange), but I also have to point out that he basically just turned a sleek 2010 iPad into an iBook, circa 2000, so uh, yeah.