http://osakasteve.com "All the geek that's fit to news." --J.D. Lewin Tue, 20 May 2008 04:31:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday was a blur of running shorts, keg stands, and two-hit fights (EMILIO!!!) Without a doubt the highlight for me was this photo I managed to catch. My roommate Drew marked this girl with a water balloon from 25 yards away, and I froze the moment of impact. Click the ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/05/19/bay-to-breakers-wrecks-shop/ A Yahoo named Amr Awadallah whacked up a subtitle parody of 300 as a commentary on Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo. As Microsoft, we are the Persian forces, coming to the free land of Yahoo to ask for submission or some such nonsense. Sunnyvale gets to be the bastion of liberal ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/04/13/the-trouble-with-being-numero-uno/   My Friday started as innocently enough. Email and breakfast at my cafe, then a long slow mass transit trip to the airport for a flight to LAX. The Red Bull HQ wasn't the sort of place LA cabbies seemed familiar with (but really, are they familiar with ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/03/30/self-proclaimed-czar-of-mischief-joins-code-trip/ I rolled over an add on Facebook just now, and the URL caught my attention (though I must be honest, the temptation to slim my belly was there for the clicking). Look at that URL!This is probably not going to get noticed by the majority of FB users, but it's ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/03/26/facebook-ads-have-nasty-urls/ I got an invitation to Yahoo's new Fire Eagle location-sharing service this morning. While it's still not fleshed out yet (the only function appears to be updating your location from the website directly). It's somewhat hard to see what use the service will provide, but I don't care about that. ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/03/05/yahoo-ships-your-location-with-permission/ The new MacBook Air is very slim and very pretty. Check out the photos of Steve's keynote I shot for Engadget. Now it's time to finally wrap up my grand CES story. http://osakasteve.com/2008/01/15/apple-announces-ultraportable-at-macworld/ Steve Caravaial points out the existence of a sweet and free little add-on for Outlook that enables Live Mail accounts to be managed within your big, burly enterprise mail client: For those that want to manage their Hotmail account (now known as Windows Live Hotmail) from Outlook ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/01/02/manage-work-and-personal-email-in-outlook-with-the-hotmail-connector/  Joshua Allen lays out a great recap of Open Social's first two months of life, and the tea leaves are not reading in Google's favor: Social networking is Facebook's core business, while it's a side project for Google. Although Google has just attempted to add social networking to Google ... http://osakasteve.com/2008/01/02/googles-opensocial-having-growing-pains/ The home for technology enthusiasts in the Microsoft stable (and my first home with the company), Channel 10, recently launched a beautiful site upgrade. The revised site looks more polished and is easier to read than its previous incarnation. Duncan and the development team also included a shiny new ... http://osakasteve.com/2007/12/21/channel-10-gets-a-gorgeous-site-refresh/ Beginning tomorrow and running through the end of this month, Jonny Knoxville and the Jackass crew will be available online to entertain and gross out for the grand price of zero dollars (which could mean you're theoretically being paid half a Euro to watch it). After the initial ad-supported ... http://osakasteve.com/2007/12/18/silverlight-brings-jackass-25-to-the-naughty-boy-and-girls/