http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell Living Life in High Definition Fri, 04 May 2007 06:39:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whoever thought user reviews could be a big business certainly deserves a drink from me. PowerReviews.com has an interesting model in which they provide retail merchants (and other customers) a user review system so their customers can review the products they have purchased. In theory its a great idea. I ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/05/03/powerreviewscom-great-product-or-hidden-agenda/ 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).   http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/18/audi-a5-my-next-car/ The new Adult Swim low bandwidth site is quite possibly the best site I have ever seen. :) http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/16/adult-swims-low-bandwidth-site/ 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 ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/16/digital-trends-content-now-available-on-msn-canada/ 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 ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/16/did-cnet-copy-our-guide-to-keeping-kids-safe-online/ 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 http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/04/digital-trends-reviews-now-listed-on-yahoo-tech-and-yahoo-shopping/ 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 ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/04/04/slacker-goes-after-apple-xm-radio/ Samsung yesterday announcedthat they have developed a 64GB solid state drive (SSD) for use in laptops or any other portable electronics that could use a 2.5-inch drive. There was no mention of price, but with Apple and other notebook manufacturers reportedly set to announce SSD based laptops later in the year, ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/03/28/samsungs-new-64gb-solid-state-drive-announced/ I posted yesterday at Digital Trends that Microsoft officially announced the Xbox 360 Elite. For $479 bucks you get a larger hard drive, HDMI connection and everything in black. But I have to wonder, what the heck makes this thing so elite? It still cannot up-convert DVD movies to 1080P and ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/03/28/xbox-360-elite-whats-so-elite-about-it/ Just read over at MediaBuyerPlanner.com that advertisers are already starting to line-up for the new YouTube competitor planned by NBC, News Corp., and Yahoo (possibly TimeWarner/AOL and Viacom too). Why, you might ask? Because they do not plan on using user-generated content - at least they have not said anything ... http://blogs.digitaltrends.com/ianbell/2007/03/27/advertisers-line-up-at-youtube-killers-door/