http://www.bitdamaged.com Mikes Ramblings Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:35:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright I'm not Mark Cuban or Paul Graham I'm not a self made millionaire ready to invest in early stage startups.   What I do have is a bit of time and a few  good ideas that I've kind of left behind that might be able to be resurrected by a ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2009/03/18/my-three-fisted-economic-recovery-package/ The Shivers Oh dear effing jebus what have i done? That's the question rolling around in my head like the ball on a roulette wheel.  I just quit a great, highly paid job at one of the largest companies in the US, in likely the worst economy of my life in order ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2009/03/09/today-i-quit-my-job/ So I'm working on a Rails app that's been going swimmingly until last night. Messing around on my Mac laptop I ran gem update This ended up killing about 3 hours of my night and 20 minutes this morning when I finally figured out what happened. The symptom was that I kept loading my ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2009/02/12/rails-230-update-gotcha/ Today both Comcast and TWC have claimed they're going to have ETV clients in all homes by the end of 2009.  Interactive TV in the US?  Woot! http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/11/12/etv-across-the-board-in-2009/ Currently, The Death of the 30 second spot. So way back in the day, Advertisers pretty much owned the TV airwaves,  the 1.0 version of TV Advertising had brands sponsoring and even producing and programming the shows that aired on the networks, the networks were essentially "dumb pipes" carrying the advertisers ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/10/30/the-future-of-tv-advertising/ Sub Title: The Navic Dilemma Honestly this should be one of the last of these that I do just because I really have always been a bit insulated from what Time Warner is up to, but I've harnessed my Google-Fu with a little bit of knowledge to try to discern Time ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/08/28/state-of-the-itv-onion-time-warner/ There's been a lot of times where I wish developing ETV applciations was as easy as developing apps for the Yahoo Widget engine (or "Konfabulator" as it used to be called).   It's pretty straightforward, uses XML for visual layouts and Javascript for scripting behavior.   Nice, neat little package and ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/08/25/itv-widget-engine/ With the acquisition of MetaTV and Liberate's North American assets and the resulting creation of TVWorks Comcast became signifcantly invested in both ETV and tru2way and these two platforms are becoming technology cornerstones of Comcast's interactive television strategy. Like everyone else in the industry Comcast is going to try like heck ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/08/19/state-of-the-onion-comcast/ Let's make something clear, I'm not a pundit, nor an analyst or an interactive television marketer. I'm an engineer with an MBA, so I'm not entirely sure what that makes me. Specifically though I'm an engineer with experience building interactive television applications. The type those across the pond call "Red ... http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/08/06/the-state-of-the-onion/ Christian the lion, awwwww..... [youtube]adYbFQFXG0U[/youtube] http://www.bitdamaged.com/2008/08/01/my-awww-moment-of-the-day/