5 Green And Eco-Friendly Gadgets
February 29, 2008
Being green and eco-friendly doesn’t have to be boring. I’ve compiled a list of 5 gadgets that are either have low power consumption or help you reduce your carbon footprint.
Unfortunately some of the gadgets might not be available in the US. I’m sorry guys, but the Americans are far behind Europe in terms on energy conversation. Read more
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Yooba - Swedish Meatballs Or Webbased Marketing Tool?
February 28, 2008
From time to time people are kind enough to mail me and ask me to write about their startup or interview someone. I just love to get these mails. It makes me feel important and a bit like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney. Many of the mails are the copy/paste standard “Hey interesting site you have. Let me tell you about this great product we are about to launch…”-mails. Never mind that. Even those mails makes me feel important…
However communicator, Jonas Thoursie from Yooba was kind enough to mention that my site was interesting and that he found my interview series “Show Me Your Desktop“, particular interesting. Because he took the time to look at my site, I’ll take the time and space and write about Yooba. Read more
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Amazon Kindle 5 Facts And 5 Lacks
February 28, 2008
I’ve previously written a guide to ebooks and audiobooks, but the guide doesn’t cover Amazon’s latest gadget, Amazon Kindle.
In this post I’ll list five facts and five things the Kindle lacks.
People have talked about ebooks for ages, but like hover cars and meals in pills, they’ve never really broken through. I’ve always had a thing for Sony’s Reader, but it’s only available in the US. Perhaps Amazon’s Kindle could be the thing I’m looking for. With access to the world’s biggest book catalog, this could be the first big step towards the ebook revolution.
Read this post and you’ll be the judge. Read more
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Show Me Your Desktop, Duncan Riley
February 27, 2008
Phew… Finally some time to blog again. I usually publish a Show Me Your Desktop interview on Sundays, but due to the screen writers’ strike we’ve had delays this season… Ok that’s not true, the cursed work has kept me busy, but now all important projects and presentations are done.
If you missed last week’s interview with Sarah Meyers head over here to read it. Sarah just launched Pop17.com.
This week it’s Duncan Riley’s turn to Show Me Your Desktop. If you Google Duncan Riley a lot of different articles and posts comes up. Many of them are about why he left b5media in 2006. That’s 1½ year ago, so there isn’t anything interesting in that anymore. Instead I’ll focus on what Duncan does now. Read more
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The Beta News Contest Draw And Winners
February 22, 2008
The Beta News 2 Year Anniversary Contest is now officially over and the winners have been drawn.
A great thanks goes to the sponsors, Lorelle VanFossen, David Airey and Entrecard.
I’ve drawn the winners using Random.org and recorded it with Camtasia Studio. This is my first video, so please be gentle. Read more
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Miro - The Easy Way To Watch Videocasts
February 20, 2008
I recently discovered the video player formerly known as “Democracy Player”, now known as “Miro“.
Miro allows you to subscribe to 3600+ video channels, import your own videos or add the feed from your favourite videocast. This could be YouTube, Ustream, Justin.tv, PopSnap or any other site.
This is the videocast alternative to Google Reader, Bloglines, Newsvine or similar feed reader. Read more
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The Beta News Contest Update
February 17, 2008
It turns out the secret message plugin is mocking me, but don’t worry. You can still make it!
Send the secret word found in my RSS feed to contest@thebetanews.com.
I’ve had Random.org help me find three winners for the first part.
Congratulations to Erz from Blog Paradise, Louis from One Time Contest and gLf from About Blog Contest.
They’ve won an Entrecard Fast Pass and Featured Status each.
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Show Me Your Desktop, Sarah Meyers
February 17, 2008
Remember the very popular interview with Guy Kawasaki is still available. Read it and find out why I’m changing my view on Mac.
This week I’m asking Sarah Meyers to Show Me Your Desktop. Sarah Meyers is the producer, writer and host of the daily tech show at PopSnap. I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of the alpha version of PopSnap and it looks very promising. On PopSnap she has interviewed people like Richard Branson, Jeff Jarvis and Stephen Baldwin.
Sarah isn’t like any other video journalist. In one video you’ll see her ordering at McDonalds in an Optimus Prime mask. For some reason the McDonalds manager calls the police. In another video she is thrown out of the TechCrunch 06 party. I’m still not sure why.
She also runs several other sites. Her own blog on Wordpress, another blog on Tumblr and a new site, Pop17.com, that I’m not sure what is yet. Read more
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Off-Topic Friday Microsoft Surface Alternative Ad
February 15, 2008
Last May I was pretty excited about Microsoft’s newest gadget, Microsoft Surface. Well in my world a gadget is usually rather small. The Microsoft Surface is a coffee table redefined.
You’ve probably already seen the ad for Microsoft Surface, but did you see the first take of it? The alternative version? Read more
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Show Me Your Desktop, Guy Kawasaki
February 14, 2008
If you missed last week’s interview with the lovely (as David Letterman would say) Rebecca Bollwitt you can still read it. This week I’m very proud to ask Guy Kawasaki to Show Me Your Desktop.
Guy Kawasaki saved Apple, (according to some he resurrected Apple twice), he is managing director and founder of Garage Technology Venture, one of the founders behind Truemors.com and launched Alltop.com last week.
Guy’s latest site Alltop.com is inspired by popurls.com, except Alltop has divided the news into topics. Alltop grabs the feeds from the top sites within each topic. The topics range from Auto and Celebrities to Macintosh and Sports. It basically gives you the latest headlines from 50+ websites within each topic. I discovered a few gaming sites I didn’t know, not to mention the very valuable Green topic. Remember you have to reduce your CO2 emission.
Now during the interview you will see, why Guy resurrected Apple and see an interviewer who never could do that. I’ll have to reword my future interviews for season 3. Read more
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