Sony, what are you thinking?

1) 6/9/2006 – Sony says no PS3′s for Europe until March 2007.
2) 10/24/2006 – Sony sues Lik-sang.com for shipping Sony products to Europe in order to prevent the importing of PS3′s into the EU.
3) Lik-sang.com is forced to shut it’s doors.
4) Lik-sang says: Hey your EU execs never had a problem with us sending Sony products to Europe:

“Ray Maguire (Managing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Alan Duncan (UK Marketing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Chris Sorrell (Creative Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Rob Parkin (Development Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited)” all ordered their PSP’s from Lik-Sang.

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Bradley Horowitz interview over at CNet

Fearless leader Bradley is interviewed over at CNet News. It’s a good read with some choice Bradley quotes: “uniting these like-minded people around the spirit of change” and also “We Built the stage, we worked the soundboard, we get the drugs…”.

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Naming

I’m working on a project now that will literally change the world, at least for those of us who use the internet. The problem I’m facing is what to name the damn thing. Every time I build something I have this problem and it usually descends into everyone throwing words at it until one sticks.

So far I like none of them, but perhaps it’s just that I’m too familiar with the product and I’ve got my own understanding of it. I was thinking though, “what’s in a name?”… if it’s something new, it doesn’t really need to be based on anything the user is familiar with. It could be called oogeyboogey for all the user cares. Thinking about some great companies and products with meaningless names, it’s easy to list off a few: “Macintosh”, “Google”, “Yahoo”, “Amazon”… All of these meant something to someone, but it wasn’t the user. It certainly wasn’t me when I first used them.

I think the best thing to do is just pick one that has a nice ring to it.

And yes, I guess this is the first time I’m blogging about the new product. It’s awesome, seriously, you are going to love it.

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Review: Heroes

The best new TV show I’ve seen in a long time is on tonight and I’m guessing you aren’t watching it yet. I recommend finding a copy of the season premier of Heroes and taking a look at it. It’s kind of a comic book superhero genesis story which is how one would describe the world’s first X-Men. The first humans to reach the next evolutionary step.

Character’s range from the loveable teleporting salary-man a web-cam stripper with some near psychotic power that isn’t yet clear. The pacing is quite good, allowing them to develop the characters but also advance the plot. Lots of elements remain hidden, but they don’t seem to be moving at the glacial pace of ‘Lost’. At the same time, it is an approachable character driven sci-fi show, and they likely drew from the successful template used in Lost and the recent Spider-Man movies.

The thing that is a bit different than these successes is the level of gore and darkness. It’s just a bit grittier.

I watched the first 2 episodes last night and was glued to the screen. I was hesitant at first, but now it’s perma-tivo’d.

Bottom-line: off to a great start, hope they don’t screw it up or cancel it.

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