UPDATE 10.24.2008: The acquisition is 100% official, so I’m updating this post to be a little less anonymous regarding the buyer. I’ll post the press release when it comes out. So, the big news is that my company, Network Insight, was recently acquired by CenterBeam. The formal press release has been delayed (due out the week of 10/27/2008), so I won’t announce the buyer just...
To start, I was one of the most excited people on the planet to hear that Apple was releasing iTunes 8.0, which apparently had “Genius Playlist” functionality. This functionality essentially creates playlists of music that are similar to a song you select. Fantastic feature, but boy did they miss the mark. For reference, I’ve been hacking my way...
UPDATE: Dropbox is now out of beta, anyone can sign up! I got a private beta invite to Dropbox, a very cool file sync application that works on PC, Mac, Linux, web… Essentially, you can drop files into your DropBox folder on one computer and they’ll magically show up on your other systems (or even the web). You can share them out so people can view them on-line (i.e. you want to...
I’ve spent considerable time on this “hobby” of mine, and I’d like to share with you some of the details…or at least cut-to-the-chase so you can avoid the hastles I ran into. So…I made the decision about a year ago that I was done with TiVo. Just not as flexible and feature-rich as I wanted it to be. Upon making this realization, I began researching my...