Category Archives: Technology

Sprint & Clearwire merge, the future of wireless broadband is set

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Derek

Sorry for the Sprint emphasis early on, they are a local company that is always a center of  attention around here. Sprint, as a brand, is pretty much dead. I can’t believe how badly Gary Forsee crippled that company. They … Continue reading →

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Sprint dumping Nextel?

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Derek

Link to article on The Wall Street Journal: Sprint Mulls Separating Nextel Unit Considering how many customers they’ve lost due to outages since the merger, it’s clear that move was the worst idea in Sprint’s history. So, their stock is … Continue reading →

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My Mahalo Moment

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Derek

So I had my ‘Mahalo moment’ yesterday, but, is it what Jason & Mahalo expect? For those looking for a good place to get an idea of what Mahalo is good at, here are some pages to get you started … Continue reading →

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The hunt for my ‘Mahalo Moment’: Part 2

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Derek

The journey continues… So, I think I have a pretty good idea of what Mahalo can/can’t do at this point and I have a theory as to why the ‘TechCrunch 100,000′ (as Jason calls us) have such a problem with … Continue reading →

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The hunt for my ‘Mahalo Moment’: Part 1

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Derek

After railing on his site enough, I promised Jason Calacanis I’d take a fair look at his latest startup (Mahalo.com) and say something nice about it, well… once I was actually about to find something.  So here’s the first video … Continue reading →

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Jason Calacanis and his human powered spam

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Derek

A little over a month ago I sent out a tweet that essentially said mahalo.com was worthless, had no value, and looked like “content throw up.” Well, as you can probably tell, I’ve never really seen the value in Mahalo.com … Continue reading →

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When the internet invades TechCrunch

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Derek

Due to Yahoo Buzz, this TechCrunch article appeared on the Yahoo.com homepage, and wow… 1000+ comments later it’s almost as if mom & dad went away for the weekend and the kids trashed the house.  Talk about some of the … Continue reading →

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iPod Killer Found, pt 2

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Derek

About 18 months ago I wrote a blog post, iPod Killer… Found.  In that post, I analyzed what would finally kill the iPod, and the requirements I said needed to exist on this mythical device was: Media player Good quality … Continue reading →

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Google’s OpenSocial API & Facebook’s SocialAds

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Derek

After Google lost out last week in it’s bid for a stake in FaceBook, it’s pretty apparent one of the reasons Facebook chose Microsoft instead was that Google is about to unleash a true contender to the stranglehold Facebook has … Continue reading →

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How To: Make Your Girlfriend Break Up With You

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Derek

Just when girlfriends thought it couldn’t get worse than seeing their boyfriends playing Halo for 8 hours straight wearing their Halo 3 collector’s edition helmet, comes the latest uber-gamer toy, the FPS Vest. “The gaming peripheral will consist of eight … Continue reading →

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