This is a sad trend I’ve started to see. Big name companies endorsing comment spam. The comments are all too obvious. Someone posts seeming to have low-to-moderate experience with a topic. Then, in the middle, they link to a word like “antivirus” with a link to some company that rhymes with “Sophos”. It’s highly unlikely […]
Yes, I have been tweeting quite a bit, and some of the content of that has slipped through the blog. I’ll try to keep that more in-balance going forward. But, to avoid any more slipping up, I’ve added a Twitter widget to the right side of the site, right below the link to my contact […]
Well, two weeks without a blog post usually requires an explanation… I don’t want people to think I’m getting out of touch. We’ve been hard at work with Full Circle, taking some great feedback in. Probably the best feedback we’ve gotten is on how to avoid being considered yet another Phantom console (something I’ve coined […]
I probably wouldn’t be penning this post today had Dreamcast not failed. Sega would have gotten the glory they deserved, and the console world would be historically changed. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. When Dreamcast failed, I said there has to be a better way. If a great system like that failed, it’s time […]
MechaWorks is going social… finally. The page is nowhere near done, but here’s a sneak preview. Details to follow. And yes, we’ll have events outside the world of WordPress. Update: Holy cow! Dozens of people signed up already, and no event details have leaked! We might beat MobileCamp in attendance…
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and just flat out say it: DEMO is overpriced. It’s no secret that MechaWorks will be announcing a new product later this year. And, in this economy, paying $18,500 for a staffed stage, and a kiosk in a conference… is just something we don’t think is […]
You might have seen a blog maintenance notice. If you don’t, great! That means you’re on our new server, powered by HostGator. We’ve signed up with HostGator because, while we’ve been growing, so have they. HostGator now delivers hosting that is both speedy and resilient… with a support team to match. We’ve been testing them […]
As the title says, MechaWorks is building an Apple site. Because of my proximity to Apple however, I will have no editorial relations with the site. The news will not be driven, or touched by me… beyond any general advice and council (which, I would give to anyone, anyways). More details on it will be […]
No, it’s not a web site, it’s sending hate mail to the PhoneNews.com anonymous SMS tip line. Yes, that’s right, people have been sending hate mail to 916-380-9429 plenty of times over the past week. I just find it funny that our detractors chose to waste their time on such childish behavior. It takes them […]
Yesterday was day one of E3 (okay, you probably already new that if you’re reading this blog). But, while this is my first E3, I’ve been watching E3 from afar for years. I saw E3 rise, and E3 fall… hard. I thought E3 turning into a business-only platform was dumb. E-for-all (the “consumer” side of […]