Well, duh, if you take away crapware that OEMs were being paid to install by default then you are going to have to pay more for your laptops. I think Sony should be getting positive press for this. Well, actually think they should flip the default. “Click Here to Save 50 with TONS OF GR8 APPZ”
Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to build your laptop crapware-free (Paul Miller/Engadget)
Paul Miller / Engadget: Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to build your laptop crapware-free — Sony has quite the history of crippling excellent, beautiful hardware with horrible, useless software.
Via Techmeme
I think this show is a guy thing, but I’m glad it’s been coming back.
New Futurama movie coming to DVD in June
Filed under: TV on DVD, FuturamaAs the first Futurama straight-to-DVD movie, Bender’s Big Score, begins airing on Comedy Central (they’ll air the movie as a four-episode blok on Sunday night), Fox has announced the name and release date of the second straight-to-DVD epic.
Via TV Squad
You too can write a your own spam generators widgets without being much of a developer!
Cool alert: Zude, Visual development environment for the Web (adds OpenSocial support)
I just witnessed a development environment that’s completely different than anything I’ve ever seen.
Via Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
I’ve had so much Outlook downtime that, if it wasn’t for the awesome free support incident MSFT gave me I would have switched this past week.
eM Client takes on Outlook, Thunderbird
Filed under: Internet, Windows, E-mail, Beta Looking for another alternative to Microsoft Outlook? While Mozilla Thunderbird offers many of the same features as Microsoft’s email client, you need to install plugins to add calendar and task management features.
Via Download Squad
Yes, users that don’t participate in the classical sense of the word do count as members of your community because you benifit from learning about what they read and view based on analytics. Then you can use that to refine your community and content. Just as important, if not more so, than ratings, tagging, social streams, etc.
Can NOT participating in communities = Participation
I’m ignoring for this post that NOT participating would always be better than bad, negative, dishonest, undisclosed, paid, etc.
Via Community Group Therapy
Yes please….
Google about to drop the other Enterprise shoe on Microsoft?
I’m hearing about a few things that Google is planning to do to newly compete with Microsoft’s enterprise offerings.
Via Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
I’m not sure if this would make me cooler or not…
Guitar Hero: On Tour and ‘Guitar Grip’ DS peripheral revealed
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Peripherals, Rhythm Finally, after months of speculation and funny Photoshop mockups of little guitars, Activision has spilled some details on the portable DS release of Guitar Hero dubbed, as expected, Guitar Hero: On Tour.
Via Joystiq
Feedback communities are going to be huge.
Kampyle Closes The Feedback Loop
One of the key ingredients to success on the Web is rapid iteration, and to do so, eliciting user feedback is a must.
Via TechCrunch
I said my piece on Twitter. Friendfeed is nothing that Facebook couldn’t rebuild in less than a few days with better data about you and your prefferences. It’s also something that doesn’t work as well if you aren’t Scobl-esc in your friend proliferation.
Aggregate Your Online Social Life with FriendFeed [Feature]
Between Flickr, Digg, Twitter, your blog, Facebook, Del.
Via Lifehacker
Tech support communities are for profit… I’m living proof.
Fixya Raises $6 Million B Round for Crowdsourced Tech-Support
Companies hate providing good tech support for their products because it is expensive.
Via TechCrunch
Just awesome…
Google Maps, Wiki-Style
Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki.
Via TechCrunch
There seems to have been a bunch of backlash against Facebook, but I found the new privacy stuff easy… it’s just that their defaults are wrong. 🙂
Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming — Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application – called Facebook Chat – that has been rumored since last week.
Via Techmeme
If only my blog had more readers I could get in on the widget profit madness.
CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we’ll split the profits (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we’ll split the profits — CBS Television Stations has launched a new program to get its local news headlines onto blogs and social-media sites, the CBS division said Monday.
Via Techmeme
