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Full story: The silence of the Blackberry
The Blackberry outage that left North American users of the ubiquitous wireless handheld email device in the dark for much of Wednesday didn’t prevent plenty of people communicating. Communicating about the loss of service, that is, via blog posts, Twitter, media commentary and just about anything you can think of – except a Blackberry, of […]
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Full story: Windows Vista rocks (mostly) but Outlook 2007 sucks
During the Easter weekend, I installed Windows Vista on my primary desktop PC, a Dell Dimension XPSGen5. Ten days on, I have no real complaint at all about Vista. Some niggles, perhaps, but none are such that I’d even consider going back to XP. Usability wise, it is excellent. I just love the Aero Glass […]
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Full story: Imagining Coca-Cola in Second Life
Yesterday, crayon client Coca-Cola launched Virtual Thirst, a competition to design a new generation of Coke vending machines. This is a competition with a big difference, though, as it’s about imagining a device that would dispense experiences, not metal cans or plastic bottles. Those experiences would happen in the virtual world of Second Life. The contest […]











