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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Tuesday 2pm – Will Wright Keynote

23-Mar-07

I must start this by stating that I’m going to rush out and buy Spore the moment it hits the shelves. This game is as innovative as Sim City and The Sims were for their time. Will started out with a great talk about story and plot development and the contrasts between games and film. [...]

Tuesday 11:30am – After Bust 2.0: Next Ten Years

23-Mar-07

We skipped out on this one when it became apparent the room was crowded and too warm.  Instead we went to Rio Grande for lunch and a mini margarita before heading to the Will Wright keynote. Moderator: Lane Becker , Satisfaction Inc Lane Becker  Satisfaction Inc Michael Sippey   VP Prod,   Six Apart Ltd Gina Bianchini   [...]

Tuesday 10am – Browser Wars

23-Mar-07

It was very interesting to hear all four browsers battle it out in this type of forum. Here’s the basic rundown. AOL didn’t say much, Microsoft wouldn’t say much, Mozilla said a lot but wouldn’t say a few things and Opera talked them all under the table. They all pretty much agreed that the web [...]

Pentax K10D Review at Steve's Digicams

21-Mar-07

Steve’s Digicams has a review of the Pentax K10D up now! It’s available at Amazon now for $919 with kit lens. This is the camera I was set on until Scott offered to sell me his Rebel cheap. It still looks pretty good, but I’d have to take a much closer look before making the [...]

SXSW 10 Years – Ask A Ninja Special Delivery

20-Mar-07

Finally

Monday 5pm – Death of the Desktop

19-Mar-07

Interesting but somewhat prophetic. Elsewhere in the conference I heard someone say that the best way to prevent the future is to predict it. Raskin is definitely predicting his version of the future. He had a few good ideas and many that I didn’t agree with. The good ones involved getting rid of the barriers [...]