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Review of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Posted in Review

Originally posted 2011-07-20 07:41:48. I had the pleasure of installing and running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion during the developer preview. I have to say that, overall, I was not incredibly impressed. There were lots of features (like LaunchPad) that I simply did not use. Perhaps it will take some retraining of old habits (i.e., [...]

How-To: Taking Photos with Your Camera Phone

Posted in How-TosMobilePhoto

Originally posted 2011-08-10 16:44:07. As the smartphone market continues to grow, it won’t be long before we are all carrying little computers in our pockets. But what’s more interesting to note is how advanced the cameras in these phones are becoming. First it was 1 megapixel. Then 2. Then 4. And now, with the supposed [...]

E-Reader Face-off

Posted in ReviewTechnology

Originally posted 2011-12-21 10:25:57. Thinking about buying an e-reader for someone for Christmas? MediaBistro has produced a quick overview of your options: http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewse... 1.Nook Simple Touch, $99: Barnes & Noble’s touch screen black & white Wi-Fi enabled eReader is has a 6-inch touchscreen made from eInk that B&N claims works faster than other eInk devices [...]

Christopher Walken + Fairy Tale Reading + National TV = Twistedly Hilarious!

Posted in Personal

Originally posted 2011-08-04 11:04:18. In 1993 the now defunct British TV comedy series, Saturday Zoo with host Jonathan Ross, sat down actor Christopher Walken on stage to read a very demented version of the classic fairytale, The Three Little Pigs. As you can probably imagine, the results were humorous and even Walken himself seems amused [...]

Content Delivery to All Devices: Can You Afford NOT To?

Posted in BusinessCloudMobileVideo

Originally published on the Limelight Blog as part of my role as Sr. Director, Solutions Marketing (Digital Media) and Product Manager for Streaming. I recently read anarticle on StreamingMedia.com titled “Streaming to All Devices: Is it Worth the Expense?” And although it was a good article, bringing in lots of information from people in the [...]

Photo: The Surrealism of Nature

Posted in Photo

Originally posted 2011-08-15 11:50:50. Sometimes you can just lose yourself in a photo. It may not be art. It may not be very interesting. But visually, it is stunning and inspires the imagination. Such is the case in a recent posting by NatGeo. From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Photo: The Surrealism of [...]

Cloud Computing is a Utility Service…Sort Of.

Posted in Cloud

Originally posted 2011-07-22 08:27:21. Although we often use the term “commodity” or “utility” to refer to the growing trend of computing in the cloud, where services are purchased by the amount of resources used (CPU, memory, disk, etc.), there is no standard way to measure this usage. Part of the issue is that there isn’t [...]

Vintage Shots of a Los Angeles Icon

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Originally posted 2011-07-12 09:59:55. Great slideshow of shots from the Hollywood Bowl, an icon in LA from the 50s: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/a... From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Vintage Shots of a Los Angeles Icon

Consumer + Cloud = Confusion?

Posted in CloudHypothesisReview

Originally posted 2011-06-23 14:05:34. According to this article, that is most definitely the case: http://tucsoncitizen.com/usa-today-ne... What’s interesting is to see how the “big four” (Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft) are approaching it. While Google focuses on “the Web,” MSFT and Apple go straight after “the cloud.” I think this is a worthy conversation for...

State of the CDN and Delivery Market (at NAB 2012)

Posted in Video

I did an interview for Beet.tv(on the NAB floor) during which I talked about the state of the CDN market (i.e., price compression), demand for delivery services, and how the market is warming up to end-to-end solutions from a single service provider like Limelight. Describing the interview: LAS VEGAS — Pricing compression for Internet bandwidth [...]