PVR maker Tivo throw the advertisement companies a bone. Displaying a logo so you get to see who’s flashing past at 2ads/sec CNN story Do what you like boys just don’t piss on FF>>*30 TALKTALK FOOTBALL HOME-LOAN DRUG HOVIS PILES-CREAM TAMPAX TESCO LOAN TALKTALK That long TODO: Suggest PVR detect adverts by change in screen [...]
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Microsoft do trillian on speed…
Posted by Chris in May 21st 2005
So your in IM and you right click “call” and your desk phone connects. IM that controls your pbx looks pretty sweet. The integration with con-call service providers looks pretty sweet too but why the hell did they bother with VOIP services cropping up everywhere… Then there is the most useless feature of all… So [...]
Flickr
Posted by Chris in April 9th 2005
FlickrBlog Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr So who am I going to use when Flickr get’s plastered with Y!ads?
Having sobered up from the rugby…
Posted by Chris in March 24th 2005
.. It’s back to knee jerk reality with a bump. It’s stupid’o’clock and I can’t sleep. I should probably explain this category at this point. “Knee-Jerk”; Synonyms: absence of thought, automatic reaction, gut reaction, involuntary impulse, Pavlovian response. (Strangely rarely the latter ) So Knee-Jerk is something thats done for the sake of doing something, [...]
I’ve a tune stuck in my head…
Posted by Chris in March 14th 2005
Someone got paid for this. *sigh* Scientists may have found what makes a tune catchy, after locating the brain area where a song’s “hook” gets caught. A US team from Dartmouth College, reported in the journal Nature, played volunteers tunes with snippets cut out. They scanned for brain activity and found it centred in the [...]
