Category Archives: Commentary

*YAWN* aka New iPhone Announced

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Michael Koby

In case you can’t tell, my general overall opinion on today’s announcements is lackluster at best. We have features that people up and down claimed should have been in the first iteration (but I’m sure the Apple fan-boys will back-pedal on these previous statements under the guise of “Apple can do no wrong”). I’m overly unimpressed, and was honestly expecting more from Apple. Continue reading →

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Twitter vs. FriendFeed vs. Jaiku

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Michael Koby

Lets start with the basics, because many people might now know what Jaiku is. Jaiku is a combination microblog and life streaming service that was purchased by Google and is currently invite only. The thing is, Jaiku’s lifestreaming feature was similar to FriendFeed but was around before FriendFeed. I will say that FriendFeed definitely implemented the lifestreaming idea better than Jaiku. Continue reading →

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Twitter, Uptime, & Product Reliability

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Twitter has been pretty much unusable the last 2 weeks. Things started to get bad last week, and then over the weekend they had a database crash which has caused them to turn features off and have extremely slow performance since Friday. Continue reading →

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Presidential Cadnidates & Their Pastors [Video]

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Michael Koby

This week’s video I call into question the uproar over the presidential canidates and the things their pastor(s) say. Really folks, there are real issues to consider. Why are we focused on something as trivial as this? Continue reading →

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FSF Spreads FUD

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Michael Koby

The Free Software Foundation, today posted an article about the NBC/Microsoft hiccup involving broadcast flags (article). There are a couple of things wrong with this article but the main point I want to focus on is the fact that they go to great lengths to make Microsoft the bad guy in this little fiasco. Continue reading →

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Video Blog: "M" for Money

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Michael Koby

The other night I saw a Glenn Beck episode where he discussed GTA4. I’ll let you guess where the conversation went. Really folks, not all republicans are like Mr. Beck. I for one hope to prove the stereotype wrong with the following video. Continue reading →

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