Bryan Bartow

Several days ago the click wheel on my beloved 4G iPod starting behaving very poorly; not recognizing my finger movements. I tried several remedies, such as reformatting my iPod and draining its battery completely, among others. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to get the click wheel to respond to my scrolling movements, although clicking was restored. Ready [...]

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Lost in the shuffle of Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive, is Avenue A | Razorfish. As the largest interactive agency in the world, Razorfish carries an immense amount of clout in the industry. Does anyone think for a second that the $6 billion purchase price didn’t include Razorfish’s army of developers converting to Silverlight for development [...]

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WordPress was upgraded to version 2.2 last night. Being the bleeding-edge type of guy that I am, I took the plunge and upgraded. Hopefully everything still works. If not, I’ll work on getting it fixed.
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I recently came in possession of an Apple TV. After spending a bit of time with it, I must say I’m impressed, although it’s not perfect. Setup was a very simple and it works as advertised. I have only one gripe with the device. Each machine from which you sync or stream media is treated [...]

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It just dawned on me that I now have unlimited invites to Joost and I have only shared a few with friends. I figure some of my readers may want an invite as well. If that is the case, leave a comment and I’ll send an invite as soon as possible.
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Before I question his sanity, I will disclose that I mostly agree with everything Michael Arrington says and writes. He knows his stuff…usually.
Michael recently wrote a post in which he made what I think are outrageous assertions concerning Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash and Flex. The following quote from the post particularly shocked [...]

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According to this story, Microsoft is preparing to open source parts of their recently announced Silverlight framework. Why do I get the feeling that Microsoft has a team of people sitting around waiting for Adobe to do anything noteworthy so that they can immediately start working on copying it?
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