Back on September 19, 2007 Digg launched a new profile system. The idea was to put a little more social into the Digg system. Some people liked the changes while others did not.A common thought at the time was that Digg made the changes to increase its Page View metric. This thought is based on…
Month: October 2007
About the support The troops by bringing them home slogan
1. This is not a debate for the anti-war vs pro-war discussion2. Please try to stay on topic.One thing that has been bugging me for a while is the anti-war slogan, “support the troops by bringing them home.” Let me start off by saying, as a former soldier, no one wants to be in a…
Comparing the Consoles: Weekly Sales Data
After I posted the article last week with the chart of console sales synced by release date I got to thinking. We now know that the PS3 is not doing as badly as some in the video game media like to report. I’m not about to go into some sort of conspiracy theory that suggests…
Fighting the Corruption with Samus
I still remember way back in the mid 1980’s when I saved up my money to purchase the original Metroid. Back then we did not have fancy game graphics or amazing controller schemes. All we had was D-Pad and a couple of buttons. You know what? It worked.Metroid purists do love the original Metroid game…
SanDisk sues everybody
MILPITAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) announced the filing of three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and/or other removable flash storage products. The actions, filed in the United States District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin and in the United…
Nintendo to roll out Wii “Gifting” service, no price cut
With Nintendo showing huge profits and market share dominance it comes as no surprise that there will not be a price cut on the Wii for the upcoming holiday season. What does surprise this writer is that a reporter actually asked if Nintendo was planning on a price cut!Iwata said the company is still struggling…
Nintendo releases semi-annual report
Nintendo has just released their financial data for the six months ending on September 30, 2007. Among all of the financial data about income, expenses and stock prices I found some information on hardware and software sales:All numbers are in tens of thousandsHardwareApr-Sept 06 salesApr-Sept 07 salesLife-Sept 07 salesGame Boy Advance1661028,048Game Boy Advance Software1,98063837,263Nintendo DS1,0091,3355,364DS…
Google on the Warpath
Google has always been against paid links and the idea of selling Page Rank. Recently they have become more aggressive in lowering the Page Rank of sites that sell paid links.Take for example Text Link Ads. This service, which matches link sellers with link buyers, has been removed from the Google search indexes. The only…
AgriWorld Exchange Licenses PMA’s Produce-Specific Data
MENLO PARK, Calif. & NEWARK, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AgriWorld Exchange, the first live online agri-trading marketplace, has entered into an agreement with the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) to use ASAP Produce in its online exchange. Under terms of the agreement, AgriWorld Exchange traders will be able to select a commodity from the PMA’s ASAP Produce pre-loaded catalog,…
Heroes continues to impress
Last night’s episode of Heroes was very interesting. Not only did we meet a few new characters but we also learned just how small the Heroes world is.Mohinder was sent out on a mission to talk to a new hero and we find that it is a character we already know whose powers have only…
The Sleepover
A few weeks ago my daughter received an invitation to a sleepover birthday party. I was looking forward to it with great gusto while my wife was apprehensive and nervous. My mind was saying, “awesome! kid gone for the night!” My wife was thinking, “oh no, I’m so nervous, she’ll be gone all night!”Well, the…
Orange Box Takes the Lead
According to VGChartz Valves “Orange Box” has taken the top spot in weekly sales away from Microsoft heavy Halo 3. With first week sales of 348,049 the Xbox 360 release of the game has pushed Halo 3 down to second place with a respectable 285,860 units sold (3,482,376 sold in total).What is most important to…