iPod Hi-Fi – no thanks

I’m going to pass on the Apple Hi-Fi and stick with my Sonos system. And $99 for a leather iPod case? Yeah, I think I’ll pass on that too. Here’s a sample reaction from the comments section of the Engadget livecast.
how can jobs say he’s an audiophile when iTunes sells crap lo-fi [...]

Skype Registered Users Graph

For those of you saw my iTunes Sales Graph, make sure to check out a similar graph that I did a couple of months ago showing the growth of Skype registered users. I’ll be updating that graph in a month or so when eBay reports Q1 2006 earnings.

Introducing the iPod Macro

The iPod Macro, spotted in the window at Papenhausen Hardware in the West Portal neighborhood of San Francisco. It’s hard to tell in the photo but the screen is a small TV set.

iTunes Song Purchases plotted on a graph

Apple recently announced 1 billion songs purchased on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It’s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That’s 500 million songs purchased in 7 months for an average of [...]

Diggnation at Beach Chalet

Diggnation did a live show at Beach Chalet last night. More photos here.

Trying out the new Google Page Creator

I tested out the new Google Page Creator and, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the WYSIWYG tool, but I’m not really sure where they are going with this. I was able to build this page in about 20 minutes. I just worry that this is going to be Google’s version [...]

Historical San Francisco Map Update

Recently added to the Historical San Francisco Map:

Seals Stadium
Battery Spencer
Embarcadero Freeway
Sutro Pleasure Grounds / Firth Wheel

 

Craig Newmark / Edgeio

Craig Newmark from craigslist brings up some good points about the soon-to-be-launched Edgeio service in the comments section of this post on BuzzMachine. It will be interesting to see how Edgeio deals with these issues.
Mr. Newmark’s comments:
“…I act as full time customer service rep, there’s a few of us, only a few, [...]

Tour of California Cycling

I went down to Coit Tower this morning to check out the Tour of California bike race. This is an eight-day, 600 mile, multi-stage race. Today was the individual time trial. More photos here. SFist has a good re-cap of the race and make sure to check out the photos by [...]

Snow in the Bay Area

There was a rare snowfall in the Bay Area above 2,000 ft. More photos here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Photo by flickr user zkhowes