Silicon Valley Musings

Great advice.
It is from this very interesting NY Times story by Professor Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley.

Robert writes “..it’s dramatically easier to write applications for a runtime-compiler system like Java or .NET.”
To build a reasonable user experience on the iPhone, developers will need libraries to leverage the native iPhone UI components including the new, patented gesture information, access to the local phone book, the ability to record and play voice and […]

Kevin and Michael ask in their recent podcast, What should Apple do with all that crazy iPod money? Here are some of my acquisition suggestions/predictions:
Amazon (Market Cap 15 billion) or Ebay (41 billion): Turn iTunes Store into iEverything Store. Buying Ebay would have the added bonus of being just down the street and would include […]

Today Barack Obama announced he is forming a presidential exploratory committee. He did so by placing a three minute video on his personal Website. He also has an About video on his site as well.

His team used the Brightcove for video delivery. The production values are very impressive.
He also does a weekly audio podcast. They […]

My TextMate podcast from Macworld 2007 can be found here.

I had a chance to visit Macworld today. It was packed. All the public parking garages around the Moscone Center were still full at two in the afternoon. The woman handing out badges said they had over thirty five thousand people attend today, some arriving as early as four this morning to get in line […]

On the eve of CES 2007, we at PodTech quietly released our new Video Player.
Its most obvious feature is the clean, new look. But there are several other interesting features not immediately apparent.

The player is based on Adobe’s Flash to increase cross-platform reach. The player allows our community members to easily share their favorite podcast […]