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February 4, 2010

Specialty Photobooth Picture Strips with Wink’s Shutterfly – CES 2010

Jeffrey Powers Special Media Feed CES, iPhone, memories, photos, social networks 0

Do you remember those photobooths? Stuff all your friends and take 3-4 pictures, then have a good laugh as you leave the Mall. Well the folks at Shutterfly want to recreate the Photobooth with Wink. Wink lets you create photostrips from pictures on your iPhone, Camera and Social Networks. Their portal – at wink.shutterfly.com – […]

June 30, 2009

16 Tech Innovations that didn’t quite stick

Jeffrey Powers The Roundup again, apple, apps, basic, best, blockbuster, Blu-Ray, board, boards, bob, boxes, brother, browsing, btw, cable, cables, cameras, capability, CD, cell, communications, community, company, computer, computing, day, dec, desktop, desktops, dick tracey, discontinuance, discontinuation, disk, divx, dragon, dreamcast, drive, DVD, dvds, electronic, email, error, eye, feeds, finalization, fish, followers, format, FTC, fun, gadget, gadgets, game, games, gaming, goodwill, Google, great, heck, help, home, hook, hype, i ipod, information, innovation, interface, ipods, isp, japan, job, jobs, keychain, laptop, laptops, lesson, levelator, life, live, marketers, marketing, meg, megs, memories, memory, Microsoft, money, motorola, movie, movies, msn, name, netflix, network, networking, new, News, newton, next, OLPC, origins, phone, piracy, ports, price, profitability, razr, real, rebate, receivers, Register, right, rock, rocks, ruputer, SEGA, show, skype, skyping, smart, smartphone, smartphones, space, state, Steve, surfing, surprise, tech, technologies, Technology, techs, telephones, this, tiger, time, tools, transformers, USB, vaporware, video, videos, water, weather, web, Website, websites, webtv, week, wheelchair, wifi, Windows, winner, winners, world, writing, xbox 2

You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…” Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just […]

February 28, 2009

Goodbye SITEL

Jeffrey Powers News customer support, finalization, joke, memories, month, tech support, transition, windows 95 1

My brother called me today to let me know that SITEL – the place where I got my tech start – is closing the Madison office. While SITEL is not what it used to be, it still brought a lot of memories in the late 90’s for me and a lot of other techs in […]