Over a year ago I endorsed the Jawbone Bluetooth headset with unbridled enthusiasm. At the time, it was clearly superior to any other Bluetooth noise reduction headset. Not too soon after I bought it, my enthusiasm subsided and I reluctantly acknowledged a few concerns. Yet I remained satisfied. Now, over a year later, events since [...]
After 6 hours spent at 6 different retail locations over 3 days from Southern to Northern California, I finally have my iPhone 3G! I switched from my BlackBerry Pearl once Apple removed my primary barrier to adoption — lack of push email and calendar — and I am overlooking the challenging keyboard and lack of [...]
I’m thinking about it. Thinking about it hard. And I don’t know that I’ll have the strength to resist my consumer impulse. I’ve loved my BlackBerry Pearl and its predecessors over the past few years. I love the synchronization with my work Outlook; I use email and text messaging constantly, the phone, notes, the to-do [...]
Inspired in part by my colleague Adam Nash’s post on Google Reader, I made the switch a few weeks ago to Google Reader and have been entirely pleased with the clean UI and overall ease of use. I’ve been using the Email function (see screen shot above) recently but, silly me, just fully realized that [...]
Three years ago, I loved my then-new Sony Vaio (Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.79 GHz, 448 MB RAM), with its vibrant, luminous display and blazing speed (at least seemingly then). It succeeded a long series of PC laptops and desktops. But, after 18 years of PC use, I’m making the switch to Mac. Why? (1) My [...]
I must have too much free time on my hands (don’t tell my boss), because lately I’ve been doing a bit more business reading and checking out Web sites I’ve wanted to explore. Yelp isn’t new news, but two of my former eBay colleagues are leading operations and marketing there, so it’s long past time [...]
A World Wide Web log . . . Does anyone else find it odd that individuals have zealously guarded their diaries and journals from prying eyes throughout time and, yet, with the phenomenon of the Internet, we now publish the events of our lives and our thoughts to the world? I tend to find blogs [...]
