Yea I said it. The Apple fan-boy that I am has no respect for the iPhone. Especially when Apple decided to pick the crappiest service for their Jesus phone. But thats old news. The thing that makes my opinion so negative to the iPhone is something thats just around the corner. Read the rest of this entry »

Yep… Digg has received yet another face lift. This time they messed with a bunch of things.

It looks like they made some of the fonts bigger and more visible. I guess this is a good thing from a usability standpoint -it draws attention to what may have been ignored before, but I don’t know the details of what Digg features people were using.

They moved the Friends Activity off the page and into a sub menu accessible from the top. Now I actually have to click to see what my friends are doing. Personally, I think this is stupid. One of the things I used to like doing was seeing right in front of my face what my friends have been doing. Now its just one more click of the mouse away. i think that one click will make a difference, personally.

Next they added some cutesy icons to some of their links. Again this is just a presentation update, nothing functional. I suppose it just brings the attention to these buttons with an attempt to get more people in the Digg community to take part.

I also noticed some changes on the comments pages. I guess they listened to all the whining that everyone was doing. now we can expand the whole comment thread at once, and they even gave us some global settings to help out too.

Now, the biggest change they made was in fact a functionality update. They now include videos on the front page. Big friggin’ deal. Quite honestly, I say let the video sites handle their own popular videos. They all allow voting and such, so they can do the same thing - and its likely that they will do it better anyway.

Pictures, on the other hand, are still being neglected by Digg. What is their problem? Still after everything, we have no picture section. Is it REALLY that difficult to implement. I know it is not. There must be a reason, right? RIGHT?! I just want to see pictures sometimes. I cant goto any picture sites to see the top 10 pictures, etc. I can goto Youtube or Google Video or Metacafe and see videos sorted by the top rated, most viewed, most commented on, etc.

So what is it about Digg that makes them hate pictures so much????

The COD4 Beta is up and ready for you to register here are the details:

Your name will now be entered into a random drawing for Tokens into the Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta. At 7pm PDT tomorrow, Tuesday August 28th, we will be drawing names for entry into the Beta. Within 72 hours of this Drawing, we will contact you via email with news on whether or not you were admitted. Even if your name is not chosen in the random drawing, there will be more ways to get into the Beta, and we will continue to update you on the details as soon as they’re finalized!

Click here for the sign-up page.

At this moment it is impossible to log on to the COD4 Beta Signup. The servers are bogged down completely. Activision said they were upgrading the servers over the weekend, apparently they did not do enough.

They did a poor job in handling the inflow for this beta and they should have done it like the Halo 3 beta, i would have rather bought a game in order to play the beta, this is more frustrating this way. This is the error the server is giving me at the moment: Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /var/www/cod4.streetwise.com/template2/html/template.inc.php on line 596
Too many connections.

If any of you had luck please include it in the comments.

Check out the photo for some new Sprint phones making their way to us in 2007. And for all those Nextel fans out there you don’t have to worry about direct connect, its not going anywhere. Look for CDMA direct connect phones in the future with one phone number and from different manufacturers. Also check out Xohm (zoam) for info on Sprint Wi-max rollout.

It looks like Sprint is making a serious push in the years to come, stay tuned for all the Wi-max goodies we will see later next year. And also look for the ic602 hybrid phone in September, its a military spec basic camera phone for the destructive type of cell phone users out there.