NY Times: Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers. Stroll the corridors and the atriums on Apple Computer's corporate campus these days and you will notice that something is missing. Gone are the posters and graphics accenting the company's sleek personal computers. In their place, in the main lobby, is a striking, three-story-high billboard celebrating Steven P. Jobs's brand-new billion-dollar consumer electronics business - the iPod digital MP3 music player.

[Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

I spent some time thinking abotu this before I posted it.  This is one of those stories that takes me back.  That reminds me of how evil Apple is and who the real competition is.

I remember when Apple went stealth - kicking out blabbermouths and making a big deal of secrecy.  Well I guess you know why now.

I just wonder what 'branded on-line' services Apple was going to put out - before Jobs put the kabosh on it.  Anyway - this is great article.

software licensing for small ISVs. good thinking about being open without being open source [anil dash's daily links]

Great rant and tutorial by Dan Bricklin.  I wonder why Anil doesn't just say that?

Web Zen: Archival Zen. prelinger archive
early new york films
british pathe
project gutenberg
beinecke rare book library
british library
internet archive
stockstock festival
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]

Great source for useful stuff - useable too!

I love it when Robert figures things out.

Xbox Live revelation.

Holy c**p. Now I understand Xbox Live. Was just audio chatting with Jeff Julian. When you get your system setup, you talk with your voice with the other players! Up to eight per game. All at the same time. All without hurting the video quality. Oh, mi gawd. This is huge.

I'm buying my son one of these. Then we can voice chat while playing games together. Even though he's in another state.

[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Yes - Robert it's called VoIP - and it comes in many flavors, shapes and sizes.

To Silicon Valley, a Sign of Things Improving. In Silicon Valley, there are strong, though sharply mixed reactions to the idea of Google going public. By Laurie J. Flynn and Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]

I don't really care if Wall St. or anyody else thinks Silicon Valley is coming back.

I'm just happy to see Laurie Flynn's byline - again.

New Details: Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center

By Alexander Grundner

The Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center (PMC) will start shipping to North America this July. This is great news for people (myself included) who have been waiting to get their hands on the slickest of all the pre-production PMCs. We also found out (via some press material) that the Yepp YH-999 is the first PMC that is capable of receiving both standard TV broadcast signals and the future Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signal (F.Y.I. Korea is upgrading to DMB in the second half of 2004).

Specifications:
400 Mhz PXA 225 CPU
3.5" TFT Color LCD - 320 x 240
Windows Media Video playback up to 700Kbps
20GB (1.8" HDD)
USB 2.0
Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery
Composite video output port (for TV playback)
Dimensions - 3.8" x 4.2" x 0.8"
Weight - 7.9 ounces

Media Formats:
MP3, WMA, WMV, JPEG [eHomeUpgrade]