“Flexcar 2.0″ launches this Thursday. It is a total revamp of the fee structure from before: Instead of a flat rate per hour, cars now have “peak” and “off-peak” rates based on their usage to date. Rentals used to have unlimited mileage, but they will now include 150 miles. Extra miles are 40 cents each. [...]
The Joost user interface features several unobtrusive widgets that disappear when the user stops using the mouse and keyboard. (enlarge) The folks who brought Voice over IP to the masses with Skype are at it again, making Joost the punchy new name for their multicast Internet video system. (The old name, the Venice Project, was even [...]
Unlike the vast majority of cross-lake commuters in Seattle, I was out on the roads this afternoon. At Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Carnegie Mellon University held an event called Network Night Seattle where I got to meet several of my fellow alumni, the Dean of the School of Computer Science, and a few staff members [...]
Today was the hugely-anticipated keynote at the Macworld Conference & Expo. As expected, we saw the final version of the iTV (now called Apple TV) which streams video from five PCs and syncs with one. For $300, as much as I paid for my Xbox 360 (which will act as an IPTV set-top box as [...]
I was lucky enough to snag one of Woot’s famous “Bags of Crap” on Christmas day 2006. It arrived today. For $3.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling, I got three units of “random crap” — but my bag (box) of crap actually contained 41 items! Check out what I got on Flickr!