On Less Social And Privacy As Business Opportunity

December 8, 2011

The Wall Street Journal posts an theory from currently in-progress Le Web that social networking may be at a saturation point. And instead of “all open, all the time” some are thinking privacy could be an opportunity. Path and Evernote are put forward as examples.

iTunes Match Gripes

December 8, 2011

So. It’s been a few weeks since starting up Apple’s cloud music solution iTunes Match and I have to admit, it’s not working as well as it should, and some things about it have me leaning toward disconnecting my iPhone from the service.

Movie Notes: Surrogates

December 8, 2011

Surrogates

Synopsis

In a future world where people stay at home and experience the world through robotic “surrogates,” FBI agents Tom (Bruce Willis) and Peters (Radha Mitchell) investigate the death of an individual who died when his robotic equivalent was destroyed.

On An iMac + Apple TV

December 7, 2011

AppleInsider quotes an Apple analyst theory that instead of an Apple TV proper, we could see an iMac with Apple TV functionality as an interim step. Yeah, I don’t think so.

Toomorrow: One Of Those Obscure Movies, Found

December 6, 2011

A while back I mentioned a secret list of movies I want to see, but probably never will, due to their obscurity, unavailability, or maybe even non existence. One such flick on my list was Futureworld, a pretty bad sequel to Westworld starring Blythe Danner, which turned out to be pretty much the only good thing about it.