Posts Tagged ‘ mistakes being made ’

Turns out 3D isn’t good for you

Whoa boy — the problems with 3D just continue to mount. Forget the fact that you shell out $4K for a TV and only can have one person watch it without shelling out another $150 for another pair of glasses. Forget the fact that even if you find another friend who got suckered decided to hop on [ READ MORE ]

Century +1

For the 101 post on SOTB I have to get on the BP band-wagon that Mister Zero started.  While everyone knows this oil spill totally sucks here’s a couple facts that you may not know: 1) The oil-well if left unchecked would stop flowing in 7 years 2) There are over 3,500 oil & gas wells in [ READ MORE ]

Cellphones and toilets

Mr.Pink just brought to my attention an article in the NYT about Cellphones and toilets in India. It turns out there are more cellphones than toilets.  If you’ve even been to India (I’ve had to launch a product in India and was there for a couple of months) you wouldn’t be surprised at this article [ READ MORE ]

Speaking of broken links…

Mr. Hero had a great post on Friday about broken links. I’m surfing around seeing if I can extend my very cool Squeezebox Duet that I installed on my home stereo a week ago.  While the remote has an audio jack on it that should do what I need, I can’t listen to the audio [ READ MORE ]

I’m done..

I’m done with the digital rental movie market.  My iTouch told me that my movie was no longer valid and I only made it 1/2 through a pretty good movie. (I don’t even want to back in the archives and complain that iTunes let me rent movies to my 5G iPod knowing full well that it [ READ MORE ]

3D – I’ll bring over my glasses

3D continues to be a hot topic on SOTB.  Why? Because it has all the right ingredients to be totally stuck. Until 3DTV’s don’t need glasses it’s just too much of a hassle to have your friends and family over. Here’s a great quote from the NY Times The glasses go for a premium — around $150 [ READ MORE ]

Stuck in 30F

This is the 2nd flight that I’ve been on where GoGoInflight is given me the shaft. 1st time, it wasn’t exactly their fault, but showed how difficult it is to offer a direct to consumer product in a physical ecosystem that you can’t control.  The poor woman was standing in from of a cross continental JFK [ READ MORE ]

Steve Smith says some good things

Typically, I’m a fan of original content that we build here at SOTB, but every once in a while, it is worth sharing things from others. This article from Steve Smith over at MediaPost was just one of those articles. His rules on what not to do: Stop kicking me out of the app. Bookmark your own app [ READ MORE ]

Come Again, how much ?

Reading the local news paper (the really local news paper — you know what I’m talking about) and was reading the article about the school budget and what steps were being taken to reduce this fiscal year’s budget. One bullet that struck me was that installing a new phone system was going to save $60,000.  Let [ READ MORE ]

Blockbusted – Going from #1 to #0 (no offense Mr.Zero)

The illustrious Mr.Zero is on a much needed vacation so I’ll be picking up the slack this week with the usual SOTB rhetoric. I’ve been ranting about falls-from-grace lately and Blockbuster has just about committed suicide.  How do you go from being #1 to #0? Instead of going into the history of Blockbuster let’s just focus on [ READ MORE ]