April 18, 2007

Audi A5 - My Next Car

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 7:36 pm

I am officially in love with the yet-to-be-released Audi A5. I think its a beautiful car.

 What do you guys think? Time to trade in the BMW 330? It has a whole 7200 miles on it in two years (I carpool).

 Audi A5

Audio A5 Interior

April 16, 2007

Adult Swims Low Bandwidth Site

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 10:30 am

The new Adult Swim low bandwidth site is quite possibly the best site I have ever seen. :)

Digital Trends Content Now Available on MSN Canada

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 10:29 am

Our content has been up on MSN Canada for about a month now, but I wanted to make sure everything was working before officially announcing it. MSN Canada will be using reviews, guides, and videos from Digital Trends. I am excited to be working for with them! You can read the press release about it here.

Did Cnet Copy our Guide to Keeping Kids Safe Online?

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 10:11 am

March 7th, we posted our guide on how to keep your children safe online. A reader contacted us today to let us know that Cnet posted a section dedicated to the topic a couple weekes after we posted ours. I admit that they did add more in-depth information, and really did a great job informing parents. I guess we should find it flattering that they are borrowing ideas from our writers. We still out rank them on Google for the search term How to Keep your Kids Safe Online. Now go read our story on how to keep your kids safe online, its better, and we do not confuse you with 20 different sections! :P

April 4, 2007

Digital Trends Reviews Now Listed on Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! Shopping

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 8:11 pm

Our reviews at Digital Trends are being listed to the corresponding product entries at both Yahoo! Tech and Yahoo! Shopping. We are excited to be working with Yahoo! in this partnership. You can see some examples listed below:
BlackBerry Pearl on Yahoo! Tech
Apple TV on Yahoo! Shopping

Slacker Goes After Apple, XM Radio

Filed under: Random Babbling — ianbell @ 8:10 pm

Slacker, the newly formed music service and hardware provider announced that they have brought XM Radio co-founder Lon Levine on as an advisor. Slacker is a number of things including a web-based music service provider, and a portable media player manufacturer, plus they plan on developing and selling Slacker in-car satellite players.

While Jonathan Sasse is a friend of mine, I have a really tough time thinking they will succeed. XM and Sirius both have portable satellite media players, and they just plain suck. In-car satellite player might not be a bad idea, but they will have an uphill battle getting car manufacturers onboard, let alone trying to sell the consumer on a portable car unit. I just plain don’t see it happening.

You can read the full Slacker announcement at DigitalTrends.com