In the early '00s I had a company that developed P2P streaming software that powered Internet radio broadcasts. At that time, there was a big risk that Internet radio would get shut down. It didn't - but it was burdened with regulations that made it pay MORE fees than terrestrial or satellite radio. (Net radio has to pay composer...

Even though we can all "rip" our own personally purchased CDs legally and put them on our digital media players for personal use, this has not not necessarily been the case for DVDs. A high end "DVD Jukebox" product, Kaleidescape, has existed in the market since 2002, and has been in contest with the DVD Copy Control Association since...

My company just got through presenting at Demo. Here's one of the media interview byproducts - a good, well-edited demo of the software.

The company I work for, MP3Car.com released our StreetDeck software at CES a few weeks ago. It's clever in that it uses gestures, not fixed-position buttons, on a touchscreen to control stop, next, rewind, and other functions of the navigation and media playback. Next stop is the DEMO conference...

This is awesome. The perennial question is "what is the videoblogging business model?"

Well here's one of them: build an audience of over 100,000 viewers then sell one million ad impressions... on ebay.

I've snapshotted the ebay link here ; the ebay link will go away after a while.

This movie is very illustrative of where our database culture is going. I actually have a very high personal tolerance of privacy invasion, especially on an opt-in basis.

What will be funny is when we watch it and say, "I dont' get it." in about 5 years.

Of course if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I've got the VC's lined up - who wants to join me in a startup to developing the application shown here?

Finally, we'll be able to use our EVDO cards via a USB connection!

"Chances are you have never heard of the neural code. And yet, from both a practical and philosophical perspective, the neural code is the most important remaining scientific mystery. Analogous to the machine code of a digital computer, the neural code is the software, set of rules, syntax, that transforms electrical pulses in the brain into perceptions, memories, decisions. A solution to the neural code could – in principle – give us almost unlimited power over our psyches, because we could monitor and manipulate brain cells with exquisite precision by speaking to them in their own private language."

If we ever discover a human soul or other postulated independent consciousness, this line of research will not pan out, as the orders to the organism will not be coming from neural code. However, under the brain-as-a-system-bus theory, if such a soul exists then this research could also help find it, as the location of a supposed soul-to-brain interface would inevitably show up.

I need a 3W signal booster for my home. I remember when I had a 3W analog cell phone that couldn't drop a call if I drove underground and wrapped my car in tinfoil. I met these guys at CES - put one of these in your home or car, and get the repeater going. It's technically a mini-cell tower repeater I think.

Good succinct summary of the anti-patent argument, including how VC's look at patents and get duped by them.