Tech

Sony blocking content for Netflix streaming on Xbox?

I have been waiting for months for this day. I’m ready to fire up my Xbox to get the new Xbox experience (known simply as ‘NXE’) and move towards my freedom from cable.

As I read with excitement on Lifehacker how thousands of users are getting their updated, I noticed some users complaining about missing titles on the Netflix streaming service.

Wired Store Coming To NYC

The Wired Store is coming to New York City November 21st bringing gadgets to geeks and techies.

Scalability Talk With The Experts

I just participated in a great webminar titled “Avoiding the Fail Whale“, where Robert Scoble moderated a group of guests to talk about scalability issues and planning.

The guests, which included Paul Bucheit, Founder of Friendfeed (and who also did a lot of the development work for Gmail), Dorion Carroll, VP of engineering at Technorati and Nat Brown, CTO of iLike, touched on many aspects of how they were able to scale their applications across hundreds of servers.

Got Chrome? (A Real Review Of Google’s Browser)

When I heard Google was coming out with a browser, I tell you, I couldn’t contain myself. I IM’d everyone in the office, and Twittered, FriendFeeded, Ping.fm’d, and while reading the transcript of the launch conference, salivating with primal anxiousness, I refreshed Google’s download page several, several, several times.

And then the download link appeared.

Fast forward to 30 days later and witness something that happens rarely. I’m still using it.

Wireframe Wonder To Speed Up Web Development

ProtoShare is a tool that enables the creation of wireframes. But not any wireframe, mind you, but actual working wireframes. In effect, these wireframes are HTML snippets that the user is able to drag and drop on his canvas.

Let It Go, Twitter Is Not Going To Die

For the past few weeks there’s been talk of how Twitter is dead, how Twitter is going to die, or why Twitter must die. I think Twitter is just getting started.

The Pirates Of Silicon Valley II

Vanity Fair interviews people that shaped the WWW, from Leonard Kleinrock who worked in the seminal project ARPA, all the way to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Using Ning For An Established Community Site

After 10 years of custom development, I decided to re-launch my community site, Oyeme.com, using the Ning platform. Here are are some of the good things that this environment offers as well as some of the challenges I faced.