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
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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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
