San Francisco Map – Then & Now

Notice how different the waterfront was back in 1849. Market Street runs into the water at 1st Street. The Embarcadero and the Ferry Building (built in 1898) didn’t exist yet.
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Ratings are up for TV shows sold online

You would think that selling TV shows on iTunes and Google would cause TV ratings to go down. It turns out that the opposite is true. Ratings are up for shows that are now being sold online. NBC’s The Office has seen a jump in the ratings and other networks are [...]

MyHeritage Celebrity Face Match

There is a web site called MyHeritage that matches your uploaded photo to a database of celebrity photos. Flickr users are uploading screenshots of the photo matches and tagging them with the “myheritage” tag. Some of them are pretty funny, like this one, this one, and this one.

Yahoo! Answers

I’ve been trying out the recently launched Yahoo Answers! service. It works on a point system. If you ask a question, you lose a couple of points. If you answer a question, you gain points and you get additional points if your answer is rated as the best answer. This guards [...]

Amsterdam Bicyclists

A couple of months ago in Amsterdam:

Google Video UI First Impression

I took a quick look at Google Video and my first impression was not great. Notice on the Charlie Rose videos that there is no show topic displayed when your are in “Grid” view. You just see the date of the show and a thumbnail of Charlie Rose. You need to go [...]

Wayfaring Map: Historical San Francisco

My fourth Wayfaring Map: Historical San Francisco

Bill Gates Keynote Speech at CES

Chronicle Podcasts has posted the audio from the Bill Gates keynote speech at the 2005 CES show. Video of the speech is available here.
Filed under: CES, CES 2006, Bill Gates

DirecTV 2Go

There was a press release today from HUMAX that mentioned DIRECTV’s rumored DirecTV 2Go service. I haven’t seen any details yet on when this will be available. A photo of the device and pricing details are available on Engadget.
From the press release:
The HUMAX DIRECTV 2Go compliant PMP device is designed for a [...]

More details on Slingbox for Windows Mobile

More details today on new software from Slingbox today that will allow you to access your home TV/DVR from mobile devices running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Platform versions 4.0 or 5.0.
From the articles:
You can watch your home TiVo from the back seat of a car driving on the 101,” Krikorian said.
“You can watch ‘Lost’ the day [...]