Does new TiVo ad feature make any sense?

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Trying to make Web services make sense

Trying to make Web services make sense 06/22/2004 07:29 AM
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.

Doesn't make sense...

Doesn't make sense... 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
I haven't posted a lot because I've got too much stuff to post about! OK, I know it doesn't quite...

Government Gives Nod to New TiVo Feature
(AP)

Government Gives Nod to New TiVo Feature
(AP) 08/04/2004 01:41 PM
AP - Federal regulators on Wednesday approved technology allowing TiVo subscribers to send copies of recorded shows over the Internet.

Government Gives Nod to New TiVo Feature

Government Gives Nod to New TiVo Feature 08/04/2004 03:35 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Aug 4 2004 8:05PM GMT

When AdSense Doesn't Make Sense

When AdSense Doesn't Make Sense 07/14/2004 01:13 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Christopher Knight over at EmailUniverse.com has a useful article this week that outlines some of the reasons why running AdSense may not make the most sense for your Web site....

When Secrets Make Sense

When Secrets Make Sense 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
Recently I wrote a short piece making a strong and general claim that the same forces that are pushing data towards XML are pushing software towards Open Source. There was an interesting and well-written pushback from Microsoft’s Joe Marini. I think that, as Joe says, there are places in software where secrets make business sense; but we disagree as to where they are...

13 things that do not make sense

13 things that do not make sense 03/19/2005 02:51 AM
From the New Scientist, it's 13 things that do not make sense: placebos, homeopathy, dark matter, cold fusion, and more....

Does SenseCam Make Any Sense?

Does SenseCam Make Any Sense? 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Microsoft researchers are busy at work on dozens of futuristic devices like the SenseCam, a 'visual diary' worn around the neck that captures 2,000 images daily. On the horizon are forge-proof ID cards and traffic-savvy alarm clocks.

FCC Approves New TiVo Technology Feature

FCC Approves New TiVo Technology Feature 08/05/2004 01:52 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Aug 5 2004 5:12PM GMT

Net Phoning Is Starting to Make Sense

Net Phoning Is Starting to Make Sense 05/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week May 17 2004 10:06AM GMT

13 Things in Science That Do Not Make
Sense.

13 Things in Science That Do Not Make
Sense. 03/19/2005 02:22 AM

I love checking the RSS feed from the NewScientist.com everyday. They have some great articles and they know how to dumb-down the articles so even I can understand them. Today they have a truly intriguing article on 13 things that do not make sense in the field of science. I can remember many of the incidents but I did not understand the ramifications of what was going on at the time, until now. The article breaks down the incident and the questions it created and the reasons it does not make sense. Great reading for all geeks.

Thirteen things that don't make sense

Thirteen things that don't make sense 03/17/2005 02:58 AM
Also: Tech worker sent to prison for hacking. [News.com Extra]

Linux Doesn't Make Sense For Desktops

Linux Doesn't Make Sense For Desktops 09/02/2004 07:21 PM
Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS. By David Coursey, eWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

New Scientist 13 things that do not make
sense - Features

New Scientist 13 things that do not make
sense - Features 03/19/2005 02:16 AM
New Scientist: 13 things that do not make sense - Features .. www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600

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Does The Embargo Still Make Sense In An
Age Of Instant Info

Does The Embargo Still Make Sense In An
Age Of Instant Info 12/24/2004 12:18 PM
Reporters get stories that have been "embargoed" all the time. Basically, they're told about some information, but they can't write about it until a certain date. While the basic idea behind this is that the reporter can research the story thoroughly, rather than rushing to "scoop" other reporters, the end result actually comes off more as a coordinated PR stunt when all of the articles about some new company, technology or scientific breakthrough all come out at the same instant. The PR people love it -- but some reporters are starting to question whether or not the embargo makes sense. Especially in the age of the Internet, where information flow is nearly instantaneous, the idea of the embargo makes less sense. It gets even trickier when bloggers get involved. I can't remember where, but earlier this year, a blogger broke some story on his blog because he had been sent a press release that had been "embargoed." Realizing that he had never agreed to any embargo, he didn't feel it was a problem. Other bloggers have run into embargo problems as well, as they don't know quite how to handle a situation where they're under embargo for information, but others let it out earlier anyway.

Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense

Why Charging For Newspaper Content
Online Doesn't Make Sense 11/07/2003 04:16 AM
One of the arguments that shows up here repeatedly is on the backwardness of local newspapers charging for online content. There are a number of reasons why it's a bad idea - from the level of taking yourself out of the online discussion and believing that walled garden content can survive to misunderstanding the very basic economics of the internet. Still, many newspapers are trying to do so, and some even believe that it's going well. Along comes Vin Crosbie, who knows both the newspaper business and the online content world, to smack a little sense into them. The Albuquerque Journal explained why they thought they were brilliant for creating a "successful" operation charging for their online content, and Crosbie picks apart the argument, bit by bit, and explains how they're actually losing money on this plan - and how all their other examples of newspapers charging for online content are bad (or irrelevant) examples. If you're interested in the economics of online content, it's worth a read.

Quick Summation Of Why Software Patents
Don't Make Sense

Quick Summation Of Why Software Patents
Don't Make Sense 02/12/2004 02:16 PM
Wired is running an interview with Pamela Jones, who has been doing an amazing job analyzing every SCO misstep over at GrokLaw. If you follow the case at all, you're likely to be familiar with the site. The interview, though, focuses on what she's going to do with the site once the SCO mess goes away. It's clear that she's not going to stop, but is gearing up to take on other intellectual property messes (which will continue to come, fast and furious). The reason I'm posting this, though, is a great quote from her concerning the problem of patenting software: "With time I expect that as tech savvy-ness increases in the judiciary, and it will, someone will notice that software is just math, creativity and math, and patenting 1 + 1 = 2 will eventually set us up to where only the owners of that and similar patents can write software. Meanwhile the rest of the world will move ahead in development, while the United States is stuck in the mud because no one can write 1 + 1 = 2 without crossing somebody's palm with silver."

Linux Doesn't Make Sense for Desktops
(Ziff Davis)

Linux Doesn't Make Sense for Desktops
(Ziff Davis) 08/31/2004 10:00 AM
Ziff Davis - Longhorn's woes may open a door for Linux—a very tiny door—but Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense
Approach to Web Usability

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense
Approach to Web Usability 03/29/2005 08:28 PM

Open source systems make business sense

Open source systems make business sense 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
CNET Mar 19 2003 1:24AM ET

Do high schools make sense in an age of
jets and Internet?

Do high schools make sense in an age of
jets and Internet? 07/13/2004 07:02 PM

I've recently finished up the school year doing volunteer tutoring in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's most expensive (and one of the worst-performing) public high schools, right across the street here in Cambridge.  Simultaneously I've been reading some articles about the most expensive high school ever built in the United States, the $286 million Belmont Learning Center in Los Angeles (b ackground article).  I'm beginning to wonder if the idea of a local public high school isn't just a leftover habit from the 19th century when international travel was expensive and time-consuming and telecommunications did not exist.

Suppose that you had a 16-year-old named Johnnie and the $14,000 per year that the local school district will spend to keep him occupied for a year.  If there were no Boeing 747s, cheap telephones, or Internet you might want to send him to a nearby school.  But for less than $2000 we can send that kid anywhere in the world and bring him back for Christmas and Spring Break.  For a few cents per minute we can pick up the phone and talk to our kid regardless of where he happens to be.

Hmm... maybe we can send Johnnie to China for one year.  He will go to an elite private boarding school and learn Mandarin, probably the most useful language for business, aside from English, for the foreseeable future.  With the money left over from the $14,000 after subtracting for airfare and school fees we can send Johnnie on a backpacking tour around Australia during his summer break.  Next year, because Johnnie was never that great at math, maybe we'll send him to India to be tutored 1:1 by a math PhD (compare to being one of 25 students in a classroom led by a teacher only slightly ahead of the better students).  The $12,000 we have left over after paying for airfare is more than the salary of a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, one of the world's finest universities.  So Johnnie can also learn how to manage a few servants and maybe play some polo.  For Johnnie's last year before college maybe it would be good if he learned fluent Spanish and got to know our neighbors in Latin America.  So we send him off to Argentina or Mexico to attend one of their finest private schools.

Wouldn't Johnnie be a lot better prepared to distinguish himself among college applicants with such an education?  And better prepared to get a job in a global economy?  Maybe the best option to settle the debate over what kind of high school is best is "no high school".

Tiny camcorder packs TiVo-like
live-rewind feature

Tiny camcorder packs TiVo-like
live-rewind feature 06/10/2004 05:54 PM
CNET Jun 10 2004 10:12PM GMT

A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You?

A Prime Time News Conference Before a
Special Interest? Make Sense to You? 04/13/2004 03:38 PM
The moment calls for a rough grilling by a special interest group eager to sink your standing with voters. (Liberals, too.) This would appear to be the logic of tonight's White House press conference. But that logic went bust.

PressThink: A Prime Time News Conference
Before a Special Interest: Make Sense
to You?

PressThink: A Prime Time News Conference
Before a Special Interest: Make Sense
to You? 04/14/2004 03:57 PM
A Prime Time News Conference Before a Special Interest - Make Sense to You? .. Jay Rosen .. message .. THINKS

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TiVo, ReplayTV Make Their Devices Less
Useful

TiVo, ReplayTV Make Their Devices Less
Useful 09/09/2004 02:40 PM
TiVo and ReplayTV have both announced plans to inco rporate copy protection technology in their boxes that would let content providers set content to "expire." The idea is to protect movie makers who are afraid to release movies to PPV channels where they could be recorded by users who then choose not to buy the DVD -- or at least that's the theory. However, as is pointed out in the article, this is a "feature" that makes the device less useful to people. They buy it in order to record stuff to watch it on their schedule, not the broadcasters'. By limiting that, the devices become less useful. Once again, instead of embracing what the technology can do to get more people to watch their content, they're taking a backwards step, making their content less useful. While TiVo and Replay will claim they need to do this, that's not true. If they're smart, others will come along, refusing to take away features from customers.

Money 2005: Microsoft Unveils Simplified
Approach to Financial Management and
Helps People Make Sense of Their Money

Money 2005: Microsoft Unveils Simplified
Approach to Financial Management and
Helps People Make Sense of Their Money 09/21/2004 08:41 AM
Marking the largest development effort for Microsoft(R) Money since the personal finance software was launched 13 years ago, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced Microsoft Money 2005 Premium, Deluxe, Standard and Small Business. Completely rebuilt to simplify daily financial tasks, Money 2005 is designed to answer the growing number of consumer requests for a simple solution that addresses the three primary areas of financial concern: tracking account balances, monitoring spending and paying bills. Consumers today have less time than ever to spend managing their finances, which has contributed to the number of American households banking online -- due to its convenience and efficiency -- reaching nearly 33 million.(1) Money 2005 builds on this trend by helping people access all their accounts in one place and providing automated tools that reduce or eliminate the manual entry required by traditional personal finance software.

SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms

SONY PICTURES TO MAKE FEATURE FILM OF
CLARKE'S BOOK; Neither party would
disclose financial terms 04/10/2004 11:23 AM
Hollywood Reporter .. Great idea!!

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TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

Windows CE Feature-By-Feature Comparison

Windows CE Feature-By-Feature Comparison 06/28/2004 11:51 AM
The downloadable document available on this page is a comparison between the current versions of Windows CE 5.0 and its predecessors. The comparison is based on the Windows CE product catalog. This side-by-side comparison highlights the new features and increased functionality from Windows CE 3.0 through to the latest version, Windows CE 5.0, to help you determine which feature set is best suited to the requirements of your target device.

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

Xbox Live Gets Feature UpgradeMicrosoft
has bumped up the feature content of its
Xbox Live service today

Xbox Live Gets Feature UpgradeMicrosoft
has bumped up the feature content of its
Xbox Live service today 04/22/2004 02:35 AM
Gigex Apr 22 2004 6:26AM GMT

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo"

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo" 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

Does anyone have an MP3 of the song "Tivo, My Tivo" from the off-Broadway [hit | miss] The Gayest Straight Man Alive? Because I'd really like to hear it. Also, could someone explain what "surprisingly straight" means? Is that, like, no dicks at all? Not even your own? (Thanks, Peter, for the "tip.")
Read [NYTheatre]

Update: While I'm exploiting the good humor of our readers, do any of you 1) live in Canberra, Australia, and 2) take PayPal? I need to get a few cases of VB delivered to some game developers and am having a surprisingly hard time of it.

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!"

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

A little sense of things

A little sense of things 04/29/2004 10:32 AM

I talked with Dan Kreiss the other day. He's working on a Master's at Stanford and is writing his thesis on blogging. He's posted notes from our discussion on his blog. It was a lively conversation, and gives you a bit of an idea where my thinking is these days. The best part of talking with him was discussing what I'm interested in doing next. The answer of course is lots of things! But in particular I got all jazzed up again about some ideas I've been thinking about for a while. When you've just finished a job, and you're spending you days alone at home, getting jazzed up about ideas is a really great thing.

"his sense of humor"

"his sense of humor" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

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