Comments on: Tech & Misc Ramblings…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:12:10 +0000

Mark – might want to give Slimbrowser a shot (in response to your browser woes).

By: Position Clicks

Position Clicks — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:32:54 +0000

Personally, I think youtube is going down the tubes like myspace did. Everyone got on board and the quality of the site slowly diminished.

By: James Gentry

James Gentry — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:25:26 +0000

Good Day Mark! I’m with a Marketing Research company located in Frisco, Texas and noticed in the Dalas Morning News that you had some interest in discussing Acquisition Research with a full-service Marketing company. I would like the opportunity to set-up an In-Person meeting with you with my boss Ed Trachier, OnTarget Parners, Co-Founder and CEO in the next two week. You can reach me at 214-244-9100. Thanks in advance and look forward to hearing back from you.

PS My son Jason Gentry knows you and has enjoyed sitting near you at the games. Haa

Rehards,
James Gentry
Marerick Fan

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:16:26 +0000

Did you leave your Mac? FF doesn’t make either of my Mac’s even break a sweat, and you always have the Safari option. I can’t imagine anyone who gives a damn about the Internet going back to IE.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:39:45 +0000

Hey Mark, in your NBA Live dynasty who’s on the Mavs?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:22:38 +0000

RE: 2

firefox slowdown could just be a flash issue (as it was for me):

“Flashblock” addon should help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

While youre at it check out the scary powerful “ad-block plus”:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

good luck

By: عالم عجيب

عالم عجيب — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Mark, have you considered the Opera browser? It has plenty of support and I find it much faster than others.

By: patricia

patricia — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:47:41 +0000

I wouldn’t agree about YouTube. I work really tightly in that category and that’s not what I’m seeing at all. What’s killing the innovation is the same thing that’s also creating #4 on this list.

@Kris, no offense but when I hear somebody say that, it reminds me of how unfamiliar people are about what the web is and what it is here to do. Print media isn’t going to die so much as it’s going to change. The industry is badly struggling with adapting and adopting to the IP platform – it doesn’t have to be this way. We should want to help it, because we’re talking about jobs and a huge part of the market that will cause pain for everybody if it did go away. Don’t see it as “print” or “online” but as information – media – and understand that its distribution channel is shifting. That’s it. It will be a very long time before any blog can become what Conde Nast is in the market. In my opinion, we need to help that industry better adapt.

The paddleboat was replaced with the steam engine but one factor stayed the same: it was still a boat. Just my .2

By: Capitalist Cookbook

Capitalist Cookbook — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:25:50 +0000

I am feeling the same way on Firefox as well. I like chrome a lot and it does run much faster but it causes problems with some hardware (scrolling on some mice) and others you mentioned. I too find myself drawn back to IE time and time again. The full screen is sexier, pages seem to load faster and the only thing I ever thought it lacked to Firefox was tabs which they implemented not too long ago.
I just wish Microsoft was more aggressive in the web services space. Maybe they will make pull something out of their ass soon.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:49:38 +0000

NBA Live (and the other EA sports games) are interesting as management and scouting toold. The NBA Live game itself is actually quite poor. NBA 2K9 is a much better gaming experience, but as far as using it as a management tool, I wonder how long until GMs around the league have an XBox in their office for ummm….scouting purposes.