The new Sony PSP?

Nice. I wonder whats to come for dedicated portable gaming solutions like the DS and PSP.  With the iPhone games that are coming out right now one must think whether a person really needs 2 seperate devices anymore – convergence people…get with it.  I’m not exactly sure what the iPhone processor is, but some of the games you can download are pretty PSP quality in terms of graphics and performance, why doesn’t Sony and Sony Ericsson develop a real mobile gaming solution? Kudos to Sony for some nice industrial design on this…if it’s indeed the next PSP.

more info here

Sony Vaio P review – day 3

This is how it all happened. I was flying back home to Montreal a few days ago and ended up a Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport.  I had some time to kill so I got a quick bite to eat, checked out some shops and low and behold in front of me sat the little sony vaio p – so small I almost missed it actually and took a double take.  This was probably the most spontaneous, impulse purchase ever – no I don’t need it,yes it’s expensive and overly priced for a netbook, but yes I had to have it…another sucker born every minute.

So how does it fair? Is the 1600×768 resolution on a 8 inch display overkill?  Is it worth the high price tag? If I were to quickly summarize – yes and no, but it’s a beautiful thing. Not only is the smallest, sleekest device I’ve seen, after about 3 days of use, I can honestly say that it does everything I need to do and do it pretty well. Now I know there have been reviews targeting the lack of processing power (I have the low end 1.33ghz version) and couple that with the fact that it comes loaded with Vista (windows 7 will be coming up shortly), but when you think of what this device is supposed to be, it’s done an amazing job so far in my everyday life. Now maybe my demands are not as tough as the other guy who expects to play Call of Duty 5 on this thing, but a netbook is very simple – it’s used as a secondary computer for road warriors.  All I really need is to be able to do some heavy browsing, type some emails, play and watch videos/movies, view and write the occasional powerpoint or pdf and maybe do the occasional video chat to my girlfriend when I’m away – that’s all

I’ll post more thoughts really soon as I get to use the Vaio P a little more…but overall thoughts are very positive so far and typing this post from the Vaio P is a breeze.

Poster Boy vs. MoMA

On February 10, the Museum of Modern Art launched one of its most extensive and expensive advertising campaigns in history when it reproduced 57 works from its permanent collection and plastered the images around Brooklyn’s Atlantic-Pacific subway station. Then, this past Saturday night around 2 a.m., the installation was ambushed by two men. One was Poster Boy, or at least someone from his collective, a member of which was arrested earlier this month on criminal-mischief and misdemeanor charges. His accomplice was a less likely culprit: Doug Jaeger, the advertising executive who created the campaign for MoMA. Jaeger is CEO of the brand-management agency the Happy Corp and president of the prestigious Art Directors Club.

full story here

What really goes on in Craigslist

On a lighter note, its been almost 2 years since I’ve passed the beautiful pages of craigslist since moving to London – we have this thing called Gumtree which is pretty much the equivalent, but maybe not as raunchy version.  Its kind of sweet, kind of disgusting and funny at the same time, but can’t blame a guy for trying!

proof in the pudding here

Twitter gets major funding – without a business model

Twitter has landed a reported $35 million which brings its supposed value to $250 million – all without a real revenue model and no idea yet on how they will ever monetize all those little tweets.  There were rumors that twitter would charge corporate clients floating around last week, but these seem to be now know as false according to their response.

Does this sound like the old .com days? Where anyone could get venture capital money on ideas with no business model – I thought those days were dead as well, but with the facts that twitter have in terms of growth over the past year and its massive popularity now, I’m convinced they will find a way to somehow charge 0.001 cent per tweet or some random subscription fee/package for hardcore users.

found over here

Facebook under fire – we can do want we want with your content

Facebook is under fire with their new terms of service which state that anything you upload can be used in any way they deem fit even after closing your account – so facebook essentially owns us now.  Be afraid, very afraid.

more frightening info here