Interesting: December 2007 Archives

I liked it when I heard it - it makes sense coming from Google.  Marissa Mayer, whose talks I have always enjoyed in conferences, tells us that GOOG-411 is not about profitability but about getting more samples to improve ASR for voice search.  

Since home theater has always been a topic of interest to me, and yes I am one of those people who paid like $600 to get a progressive scan DVD player when it came out - something you can get for $30 these days - I had to post these two links here.  Understanding and comparing different types of displays (LCD, plasma, etc) and the whole resolution war (720p, 1080p, 1080i) can be pretty confusing for some people - too many choices.  So these might help:

On different type of displays: http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5108443-1.html

On resolution and scanning: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6449_7-6810011-1.html

I have to give it to them:  Divorce 360 is a brilliant idea.  Maybe you and I do not like the concept of divorce, but it's out there and it happens to people.  Personally I do not have any moral issues with helping people through the process and make some money along the way.  Whether they execute well and become successful or not is to be seen, but as far as finding an unserved market niche is concerned, they have hit the nail on its head.  To see why it makes sense in terms of dollars and cents, see the TechCrunch coverage of Divorce 360.