Archive for April, 2006

Will Nintendo Release Their Online Videogame Store for PS3 and Xbox 360?

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Nintendo is opening an online videogame store for the Wii that they say will emulate the successful model that iTunes has established for music and video. This store will features games from Nintendo, Sega, Hudson and likely many more from the last twenty plus years.
Nintendo’s Store Could Be the Next iTunes for Windows
It’s a [...]

Prediction: New Apple MacBooks (iBooks) Next Week

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

CNet has a story up that says Apple is going to be running a new ad campaign next week around the Mac.

Apple Computer is planning on hitting the airwaves with ads geared around the Mac next week, CEO Steve Jobs said Thursday at the company’s annual meeting.

There’s no way they’re doing a big ad push [...]

Chris Kohler Defends Wii
(And Does It Well)

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Chris Kohler has a great entry on why Wii is a smart choice for Nintendo.

In short, the fuss over Wii is an Internet Problem, not a Real Life Problem. In real life, the name’s soundalike will pass almost entirely without notice. The positives of Wii will vastly outweigh the negatives.
I do like something about [...]

The Future of Global Marketing
The Nintendo Wii

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

So, Nintendo has finally revealed the name of their upcoming console. It’s no longer Revolution. It’s Nintendo Wii. My first reaction was revulsion.
Globally-Friendly Branding
Think Wii is great? Then you’re in luck because the emerging global consumer market is going to bring more and more short made-up words as product names. [...]

The .mobi Domain is a Big Mistake

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

The theory behind the .mobi domain is that your .com site is for “normal” browsers and your .mobi site is for “mobile” browsers. What a ridiculous notion.
Mobile devices are a ridiculously large landscape and far from a single device that you can somehow target. From mobile phones to pdas to that wireless ipod [...]

Replace That Stale Feed Icon
With a Fresh New One

Monday, April 24th, 2006

The folks that make the Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer web browsers have agreed on a standard feed icon to represent the loveliness that is both RSS and Atom (and whatever they may evolve into in the years ahead). The winner? The orange and white icon Firefox users have been enjoying for [...]

Classic Sega and Hudson Games for the Nintendo Revolution

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Nintendo announced a few weeks ago that it’s upcoming Revolution console will launch with both Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 games available through it’s online store. This, quite frankly, makes it a retro-gamers dream provided of course the pricing is well chosen. Here are the games that come to mind for these systems.
Sega [...]

Google’s and Earthlink’s Wifi for San Francisco is Terrible for Consumers

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

San Francisco has chosen Google and Earthlink to offer city-wide wifi. Some details from the New York Times:

Under the proposal from Google and EarthLink, Google said it would provide free access over the 47-square-mile city, but that access would be at modest speeds of 300 kilobits per second. Megan Quinn, a spokeswoman for Google, [...]

Inquisitor Search for Safari & Camino

Monday, April 17th, 2006

I usually try to find a browser that serves all my needs without the use of plug-ins, but I made an exception for the Inquisitor search plug-in for Safari and Camino. Safari is my browser of choice for reasons stated previously, but Inquisitor gives Safari’s search input a much needed boost with auto-complete, a [...]

It Isn’t About Ugly Design,
It’s About Functional Design

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

There’s been talk all over the interweb about whether ugly design is successful design, generally discussed in the context of sites like craigslist.
This discussion has for the most part been misguided though. When I’m talking about design, I find it helpful to break the discussion into functional, process and aesthetic categories and I deal [...]