Shane Holland and his wife Vicki are proud to announce the arrival of Max yesterday. Cute, cute, cute!
Max Aaron Holland was born at 12:45 PM Friday, February 17th, 2006. He weighs 7lbs and is 19.5 inches long. Everyone is doing fine. Ian came to visit and said, “later baby” as he was leaving.
Our little guy 
has been so cute lately, talking in his own little language, laughing like a crazy guy, and just being a wonderful little boy. I shot these video clips I strung together on my Treo 650 phone, so the quality isn’t great, but just hearing Sam is worth it. Follow this link to watch the video. It uses Quicktime, so have your plug-ins ready!
TVWeek (free registration required) may have been the first to report this, under the headline ‘Interactive TV Gets a Big Boost’ – CNN has launched their first major one-screen interative TV application. I was the product manager on this effort, and it’s great to see the trades picking up on it. If you have Dish, please check it out and let me know your thoughts. The app combines photos and stories from CNN.com you can read while the CNN linear network continues to play in squeezeback. So for those couch potatoes among us who want a little more control over your news, this one’s for you! The TV Week story goes on with an interesting quote from Ian Olgeirson, an analyst with Kagan Research: “Certainly, being able to deploy the application to more than a small amount of customers is pretty critical to making the model work on any level,” he said. Still, ITV is not likely to lure new customers, he said.”
Update (2/20/06): MediaPost has a story focused on the OpenTV back-end details. A nice quote from Joel Hassell, the SVP/GM at OpenTV who notes the value of the application providing content from CNN.com to a satellite television viewer:
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While some may find it hard to believe, I’m quite happy to not be involved in the coding, editing and (ahem) ‘quality control’ of the annual SI.com Swimsuit Edition. The NYTimes picked up on this year’s efforts, and goes into great detail on this much-heralded product launch tomorrow (on Valentines Day, ‘natch). The annual staple has grown to not only include the magaine itself, but videos for your iPod, AIM icons, mobile phone wallpapers, and a cross-country series of parties with Anheuser-Busch (which picked up this sponsorship after Miller bowed out recently). Not to mention a few hundred very nice photos on SI.com. Get ready, get set – now go make sure all those images are cropped correctly in three different size formats, the swimsuit credits are correct, and no one left off any thumbnail images for gallery 42 of 50! Believe me – stare at those pictures long enough, and you’ll grow hair where you don’t want it – or perhaps get tired of supermodels. Probably NOT the latter, though.
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