http://louderback.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:55:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Technorati Tags: Revision3,startup,VC,Gary,Vaynerchuk,Wine Library,Kenny Rogers,Gambling My friend Gary Vaynerchuk put up a video post recently that riffed off of some of the changes we made at Revision3 last week, which included stopping the distribution of his show Wine Library TV. In his post he takes me to task ... http://louderback.com/2008/startup-lessons-kenny-rogers-meets-gary-v/ Technorati Tags: fable 2,molyneux,xbox 360,fable2   Is it wrong to be infatuated with your video game character?  That's the question I keep asking myself as I play through the stellar new video game Fable 2, from rock-star developer Peter Molyneux. The latest installment in the popular Fable world ... http://louderback.com/2008/help-im-infatuated-with-my-fable-2-avatar/ Back in the early nineties there were a plethora of incompatible mail programs.  Many companies still used MCI Mail for external connectivity, individuals typically had a mail account at one or more of the big three online services - CompuServe, Prodigy and AOL One of my absolute favorite programs ... http://louderback.com/2008/i-need-a-universal-mail-client-again/ Technorati Tags: Vista,XPS,reinstall,software,bugs,SP1,Belarc,Frogs After about a year of using Windows XP, it was standard operating procedure to strip your PC down to its bare hard drive, reinstall the OS, and then one-by-one reinstall your favorite applications.  Much like painting the deck or cleaning the gutters, this distasteful task made ... http://louderback.com/2008/how-and-why-you-should-clean-vista/ See this story from NewTeeVee, reporting on how CBS head-honcho Les Moonves called internet video "a lab for our TV network", and a place to test out programming ideas. That's just wrong-headed, old media thinking.  True success with Internet video means thinking ... http://louderback.com/2008/old-media-still-doesnt-grok-web-video/ Thin, sleek, yet rounded in all the right ways, she walked through the door and captured my heart. Our courtship was brief, our romance torrid, our attraction mutual. Soon she was shacking up with me and sharing my heart and my pocket. As regular readers know, ... http://louderback.com/2008/nokia-nights-a-tragic-tale-of-true-love-lost/    Wow, I had no idea the folks at Sling were readying a new version of their player!  I ... http://louderback.com/2008/slingplayer-20-beta-launches/ So I'm going through all my email after vacation (as anyone who tried to email me knows, I like to at least partly unplug during vacations), and ran across a doozy. Apparently we now have an ability to "Leave Your Mark. Save Humanity", through "Operation Immortality". Basically it's an ... http://louderback.com/2008/the-21st-century-version-of-walt-disneys-frozen-head/ When I first heard that Broadband Enterprises was promising 20 million views across five episodes of its "Dorm Storm" show, I was flabbergasted (and just a bit jealous). For you math challenged, that averages out to 4 million per episode.  I've seen the numbers, and I know that ... http://louderback.com/2008/flawed-video-distribution-strategy-destined-for-failure/ There's a conceit practiced by modern-day game developers that I think is just wrong, wrong, wrong.  It's that gamers will start playing, and then just keep playing, day in and day out, until they either finish the game or stomp away in frustration. But that's not how it ... http://louderback.com/2008/hey-game-developers-wheres-the-fail-function/