Could someone please buy the man a plasma TV? Doesn’t he have, like, a situation room or something with a hi-def feed from the nose cone of the freaking shuttle available to him? Sad, sad, sad. (Via Engadget.)
If you don’t want to make the same mistake as George above, MSNBC.com has a fabulous Flash application to review the Discovery launch. It’s a user-selected, sychronized, multi-cam app where you pick your camera positions to watch the launch. Very slick execution. (Via LostRemote.)
Om Malik today takes note of AOL’s new partnership with Feedster for their new ‘MyAOL‘ – as he notes, Yahoo must be thinking that’s soooo 1999 ;-). Interesting to see a tool like this on AOL; bringing RSS closer to the massses…
“America Online is one step closer in its bid to transform itself from a dial-up ISP into a content powerhouse. The company has just announced MyAOL (it must be 1999, Yahoo people are thinking.) The most exciting part of the news is that they are taking RSS mainstream. Yup – right out of the elites into the AOLplanet. Yahoo, Ask Jeeves (via Bloglines) and supposedly Google are already making RSS part of their future, and now even AOL has signed up.”
He also notes:
“The new site will also allow folks to subscribe and read RSS feeds. This is also a good day for RSS spammers, who can now find gullible clickers amongst the AOL hordes. Going back to that step-closer remark, they are still amillion miles away from where they need to be.”
(Via Om Malik’s Broadband Blog.)
New photos of kids from 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Here’s a link to a Willy Wonka fansite (the old-school version) with scans of Poloaroids taken of the five kids from the 1971 flick, all grown up. Augustus is just creepy.
(Via Boing Boing.)
Update: Another much more complete review is now available at GamersReports.com. They actually got the thing to work ;-).
Previously Reported: I4U News – Sony PSP Firmware 2.0 with Web Browser First Impressions: Some intrepid soul has loaded up the PSP 2.0 firmware (Japanese version). So far no love with the browser – just an obscure error message.