0 comments by Ben Koo on 8/6/2008
For awhile I have been following the digital living room wars as products like Vudu, Apple Tv, and Roku’s Netflix box hope to change how consumers utilize digital media. I also think I did a pretty decent job chronicling the now resoloved HD DVD vs Blu Ray format war. Awhile back I blogged about LG’s […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 8/5/2008
Below are some thoughts on what’s on the tube these days – The critically aclaimed football documentary television show, Hard Knocks, is returning in less than 48 hours to HBO. This year the show will focus on training camp for the Dallas Cowboys. Last year Hard Knocks chronicaled the training camp of the Kansas City […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 8/4/2008
This is quite the pick for commercial of the week. I haven’t been watchig much tv and life right now is as hectic as ever with a multi faceted relocation in the works. However this morning this commercial seemed to calm my nerves just a bit. I have never gone on a RV vacation and […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 8/3/2008
I have a lot of great content I want to write, but its going to have to wait….. I need to move and I need to move asap. My company is planning on moving to the city real soon and my sublet in Alameda is expiring in 10 days. Complicating this move is my absolute […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/31/2008
I posted this on Bucknuts, trying to give some of the board members who had not played football some perspective on the experience that is training camp. Some of it is tied to Ohio State, but really its more about the camp experience that many really can only imagine. The community members have really liked […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/30/2008
The tech community has enjoyed taking shots at Yahoo over the past 6 months. For years before that Microsoft was a great punching bag to beat up on. But if anyone has taken more abuse than Microsoft, it would be much maligned AOL. For whatever reason, the portal and former ISP giant has been unable […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/29/2008
I had a nice little mini vacation away from blogging over my birthday weekend. But its back to the grind. Couple of Interesting updates below. – Last week TechCrunch broke the story that Digg was close to consummating a deal to be acquired by Google. This weekend, the site now claims the deal is dead […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/25/2008
I am throwing kind of a changeup for this commercial of the week. I saw a lot good witty new commercials, but this one grabbed my attention the most. Awhile back I blogged about how long time oilman T Boone Pickens was heading a new initiative to increase wind energy productions. Pickens is now putting […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/24/2008
Aww what to blog about tonight? I was contemplating ripping American Airlines to shreds for taking out movies to save a miniscule amount on gas money citing the equipments weight and also them taking their flights off of Kayak and Orbitz. Updates on Hulu, Tesla Motors, and Vudu were also considered. But in the end […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/23/2008
Rumors are abound that Google is finalizing a deal to acquire news content aggregator Digg.com. The acquisition price is rumored to be in the neigborhood of $200 million . With other portal/search engines like yahoo and AOL having their own content aggregation tools, Google seems to be seeing the value of the original enterprise content […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/22/2008
My CEO played this for me awhile back, but its slipped my mind until today. Its HILARIOUS and reminds me of a old Japanese friend I made in high school. Bob Costas is awesome too.
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/20/2008
A couple days ago, I predicted that Batman had a great chance to break Spider Man’s 3 record. Today reports are coming in that, it indeed break the box office opening weekend with around a $155 million opening. I go to about 3-4 movies a year in theaters and usually catch another 30-40 on Vudu […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/18/2008
Unlike its competitor, Myspace, Facebook has earned a great reputation for performance, scalability, and uptime. Today, it seems the system is temporarily down causing many of my coworkers to comment on the rarity of such a platform crash for Facebook. I am sure, it will be back up soon but wanted to point out that […]
0 comments by Ben Koo
I am not ultra plugged in to Hollywood, but am known to be more plugged in than most. For awhile I have been wondering if the new Batman movie could make a run at breaking Spider Man III’s opening box office record of 151 million dollars. This great LA times article , predicts an opening […]
0 comments by Ben Koo on 7/17/2008
Today we’re going to try something different. Lots of blogs vent, mock, and throw stones at whatever topic comes into their sights that warrant the mean spirited energy to blast. I try to avoid that….but not today. Its Wednesday night, and the only day of the year that has no professional sporting games. This irks […]
