Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

The conspiracy theorists tried to warn us that it would happen, but Congress still choose to ignore consumer rights when they passed the “broadcast flag” legislation. Under the program, DVR makers were forced to recognize “do not copy” rules that could be applied to certain types of content. So far the rules haven’t prevented any [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: DRM, Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TV, TiVo | 2 Comments »

They say that breaking up is hard to do, but it turns out that breaking up in a web 2.0 world can be even more complicated than break ups from the past. Social networks have made it easy to meet new people and to share pieces of your life with a larger community, but what [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Technology, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

TiVo’s remote can do a lot of great things, but apparently Brainfreiz’s remote, includes a little too much functionality. The good news is that he’s able to control his new air conditioner with his TiVo remote. No special hacks, it came out of the box like that. The bad news is, everytime he hits the [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TiVo, VOD | Comments Off

Given the technology focus on my site, I never thought that a woman’s magazine would win site of the week, but Queendom’s great tests won this week’s award. Queendom is a site that hosts lots of polls and tests that you can use to answer all of life’s riddles. Most of the polls are for [...]

Posted on May 28th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Site Of The Week | 3 Comments »

For the most part, I’m pretty content to time shift my television and watch it at my own pace, but when it comes to 24, I have always made a point to watch it the same night that it aired. The show is just too exciting to wait a day longer than you have to. [...]

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: TV | 15 Comments »

Posted on May 24th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: VOD | Comments Off

I’ve always been a fan of iRobot as a consumer, but I’ve never been a big fan of their stock. When the company first went public, there was a lot of buzz, but I could never get past their razor thin margins. I knew that they were doing interesting things, but my interests were elsewhere, [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Robots, Technology | Comments Off

This week’s winner of the site of the week contest was Every Stock Photo. Every Stock Photo is a site that is especially helpful if you happen to be a blogger, because it allows you to search Flickr, StockXchange and other photo sharing sites, for images that are available under the creative commons license. I [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Search, Site Of The Week, Technology | Comments Off

When most people think about TiVo, they only think about being able to record TV. They might be aware of some of TiVo’s extra features, but unless they’ve actually tried the service, it’s hard to understand the little things, that make TiVo so great. It’s easy for consumers to understand the appeal of features like [...]

Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, TV, Technology, TiVo | Comments Off

Over the course of my life, I have been one of Electronic Arts best customers. It’s embarassing to admit how much money I have spent on the company, but year after year, I’m the guy who falls for their trick of repackaging the same content, over and over again. I’m not sure why I feel [...]

Posted on May 18th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Marketing, Media, Technology, Video Games | 1 Comment »