There are strange things happening in Facebook’s “Suggestions” box. While it has worked quite nicely in the past few months about finding some “real” friends, the suggestions started expanding into some dangerous territory.
There are a number of people that keep coming up to my Suggestions list even though I cross them out one by one [...]

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For 2008, my picks were these.
While I change the format slightly, most of my faves remain on the list:
 

Devices
Web Products/Services
iPhone Apps

iPhone
Amazon
AroundMe

Livescribe
Del.icio.us
Dropbox

Macbook Pro
Dropbox
ESPN ScoreCenter

Playstation 3
Flickr
Flight Control

 
Gamefly
Flixster

 
Gilt/Jetsetter
iPod

 
Gmail
iStanford

 
Google Docs
Kindle

 
Google Maps
Pandora

 
Google Reader
Shazam

 
Google Sites
Skype

 
Hulu
WeatherChannel

 
Jajah
Zagat ToGo

 
LinkedIn
 

 
Live Skydrive
 

 
Netflix
 

 
Outlook
 

 
Pandora
 

 
Skype
 

 
Voipbuster
 

 
Wordpress
 

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FeedFlix, a Netflix API service, says that Netflix is losing 0.3% of DVDs it is shipping.

GameFly, which gives the same Netflix-style service for video games, is unhappy about ~1.0% loss rates for the DVDs it is shipping. Probably for that reason and some others, they filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission. USPS is [...]

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Google Reader started offering a new sorting method for blog posts: Sort by magic.
While many tech evangelists have already declared RSS-reading dead and migrated to Twitter-style micro-sharing, I still think RSS is by-far the most effective learning tool/platform on earth (maybe on par with the courses I am taking in Stanford GSB).
There is a personal dimension [...]

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Future of filmed entertainment will not be that different from what it is today – in terms of complexity and number of players participating. But, as the pie is large, there are lots of hopeful and agressive firms out there trying to close a prime estate in the white space. This post is by no [...]

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