Kevin Rose, founder at Digg.com was flying from SFO to New York city this morning when he connected to Virgin America’s on board wi-fi connection and began streaming his trip from 30,000 feet.
Utilizing twitter, he sent out a tweet with a link to where people could view his stream. Interacting with the audience of over 700, he gave a quick tour of the plane from his seat, showed his viewers his neighbor and the view from his window.
A very cool interactive experience which shows that the Internet is becoming more ubiquitous all the time.
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I write Facebook applications. It’s part of my job. When I show them off to customers, I’m a little uncomfortable adding them as a friend. They don’t need to see the crazy shenanigans of my friends and me. I signed up for my “private” version of Facebook this morning and learned that Facebook officially restricts the Irish.
I mean, who else has more than one capital letter in their name?
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More information can be found at the links provided, but Microsoft is not starting the year off strong. Most media outlets led with a story about how the Zune, Microsoft’s digital music player, was hit with a glitch in how its internal clock accounts for leap year. Then, it’s industry leading web browser, Internet Explorer, lost some major market share. An unfortunate start to 2009 for Microsoft.
Zune article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/the-day-microsoft-zunes-stood-still/
IE losing market share: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123092719894149695.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
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