Don’t miss the U.S. Bank Speaker Series featuring bestselling business writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin! Meet Seth Godin, get a FREE copy of bestseller Purple Cow, and stay for the Timberwolves game! Date: Wednesday, April 13th Speaker: Seth Godin, author of bestseller Purple Cow Topic: Marketing in a Crowded Marketplace Game: Timberwolves vs. Warriors Offer: [...]
I’m a picky person. Being a designer, most products I purchase end up having some design flaw that likely goes unnoticed by most people, but just drives me nuts. I can’t stand how the LCD on our microwave is unreadable from above. The futon that can’t keep it’s cusion in place frustrates me. The coiled [...]
A bit of Friday fun…Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is a “free, stand alone, downloadable multiplayer game in which players wage war as Axis of Allies in team based combat.” For Mac OSX only and being distributed via BitTorrent.
Podbrix, a site dedicated to the fine art of Lego figurine mods will be selling a limited edition Steve Jobs Keynote figure tonight at midnight. Dorky? Yes. I want one.
Sirius Radio wants Apple to incorporate a satellite radio receiver into the iPod. A great idea and something a lot of people, including me, would probably like: an iPod that not only plays my MP3′s but lets me listen to satellite radio? And, maybe, record it? One box, two great solutions. But it looks like [...]
Everyone’s up in arms about Apples new iPod Shuffle, their sub-$100 USB Flash-based mp3 player. It’s been described as “flawed” and the lack of screen elicited responses like, “isn’t a mediocre screen better than none at all?”. This is the classic glass half empty or half full problem. Either: the world sucks, everyone makes bad [...]
Cluetrain Manifesto #74: We are immune to advertising. Just forget it If Frontline’s Persuaders Among Us or regular visits to Hugh McLeod’s rarely work-safe Gaping Void hasn’t convinced you that traditional advertising is dead. Stone dead. People now laugh at you for thinking it works dead. Here are a couple more nails for the coffin: [...]
Apple’s iPod is a closed environment. Unlike radio, the music on an iPod is limited to the owner’s music library. Personally, I’ve hit the “2,000 songs and nothing’s on” wall. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been looking for a solution. Is it digging into MixMatcher or picking up a Sirius Receiver, like Jen? Ultimately, [...]
As I mentioned on my other weblog, this semester I’m a project coach for MCAD’s Visualization program. I meet with my team – 3 very enthusiastic students – once a week and help them with their project. Today we worked on writing a proposal for their project (with an actual real-life client). As fun as [...]