Just a short while back, a Hulu-like UK website was released, with the name of SeeSaw. NewTeeVee publishes a brief review.
Silicon Alley Insider:
The JooJoo tablet — previously known as the CrunchPad — has been delayed. It was originally supposed to ship around now, but now won’t ship until the end of March because of a “manufacturing issue.”
Is “manufacturing issue” an euphemism for “we’re getting sued and have unstable legal issues”?
Update: So here’s an explanation:
The manufacturing issue centers on fine tuning the touch sensitivity of the capacitive screen. Fusion Garage will be providing all pre-order customers with a free JooJoo accessory to compensate for the delay in the delivery of their JooJoo.
…and whatever. Still a product that offers too little, costs too much, and is horribly mired in a ton of legal & ethical issues.
31-meters long. 15-meters wide.
Average speed: 8 Knots.
Excellent article on how Cleopatra’s Needle (the one in Central Park) was moved from Egypt to the United States. One of three Egyptian obelisks given as gifts (the other two were given to the UK and France).
Article published in time, just before the Axum Obelisk is returned to Ethiopia. Benito Mussolini stole it back in 1937 and the Italians have been promising to give it back for about sixty years now.
Interesting interview Wired did with Thiel. One small tidbit that irked me:
Thiel: Obviously we’ve done well online. But how much more progress is there going to be? How many big new Internet companies are there? In the ’90s we had Netscape, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon. In the past eight years there have been only two: Google and Facebook.
Wired: Twitter?
Thiel: Possibly. Still, the numbers suggest a maturing industry. The Internet may be culturally important, just as the automobile was culturally more important in the ’50s than the ’20s, as we got suburbia and built the Interstate Highway System. But the last successful car company started in the US was Jeep in 1941.
I have trouble saying the Internet is a maturing industry yet, although I could perhaps buy the argument that it might be heading in that direction.
The Internet is a global structure, obviously, but we’ve only seen American success so far. The companies behind the most popular websites (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, Amazon) have been predominantly American. Moreover, while the Internet user base has seen vast increases in numbers, there’s still a huge amount of gaps with entire regions without a mass-adoption of the Internet. Hell, there are millions in rural United States without coverage yet.
With that, I can’t possibly accept the label of ‘a mature industry’ for the Internet. Perhaps the Internet has become a mature Industry in the United States or even in Europe. (I would argue against both those).
But for the majority of the world and for its most populated areas, the revolution hasn’t yet begun.
“You could take immediate delivery of a new 2010 Tesla Roadster or Roadster Sport, with a three year, 30,000 mile contract and with monthly payments as low as $1,658. At the end of the term, you’ll be able to purchase the groundbreaking Roadster or pay a fee and walk away.”
This is big. It looks like Facebook’s finally received a patent for its Newsfeed, crediting Zuck as well as seven other current/former Facebook employees for the creation of the technology as well as assigning the rights of the patents to Facebook, Inc.
What will Myspace (and the numerous other websites with copied Newsfeeds) be forced to do now?
Sharespost, a company that specializes in selling private company shares, recently released a study claiming Zynga is worth a whooping $3 billion.
Same study believes Facebook is worth $5 billion.