Davis Freeberg’s Digital Connection

It’s no secret that newspapers have been challenged by the rise of the internet. Whether it’s pesky bloggers like myself giving content away for free or social networks redefining what a hot news story actually is, things have gotten incredibly competitive for traditional news organizations. As a result, we’ve seen everything from pleas for government [...]

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Davis
Filed under: Marketing, Media, Search | 2 Comments »

From the first moment that I tried the internet, I was instantly hooked. After signing up for a “free” dial-up AOL membership, I remember getting my phone bill and being shocked at over $300 worth of local toll charges. Being 15 miles outside of civilization, I should have known that I was paying by the [...]

Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Davis
Filed under: Marketing, Search, Technology | 2 Comments »

For those of you who are still not satisfied with the current crop of movie recommendation services, you’ll soon have a new choice available to you. Last week, I signed up for the private beta of Jinni and have been pretty impressed so far. Jinni is a new interactive movie rating website that is trying [...]

Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Media, Netflix, Search, TV, VOD, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »

With access to four tuners and 1.5 terrabytes of storage, I thought that I had the ultimate DVR setup, but after seeing Snapstream’s Enterprise DVR in action, my home entertainment system suddenly seems wimpy. This DVR isn’t meant for the home market, but I can’t help being envious of its capabilities. I don’t know how [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: DVDs, Media, Search, TV, Technology | Comments Off

This amazing video was created by Mogcaiz. You can see more of his work at DeviantART. Last week DivX released their 10-Q and while I was able to find the time to tune into their conference call, I didn’t get a chance to read through the actual document until this past weekend. In the filing [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Davis
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It looks like TiVo, Netflix and Blockbuster will be packing their bags for Massachusetts, after they won the first of many legal scrimmages in their patent defense against Lycos. Lycos has asserted that all three companies have violated patents they own, on “information filtering technology.” The two patents that are at the heart of the [...]

Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Davis
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Over the last few months, I’ve seen a ton of freecreditreport.com ads on TV and on the net. I’m not sure if there is a seasonality to the credit business or if the ramp up in ads is just a new push by their parent company, Experian, but it’s clearly working. For the month of [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Davis
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If you’ve ever tried to contact a business for technical or customer support, then you know exactly how frustrating it can be, when you are trying to get a hold of a live agent. Sometimes, the automated phone systems may have the info. that you need, but 9 times out of 10, I’ve found that [...]

Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Search, Site Of The Week, Technology | 3 Comments »

I have to admit that the first time I heard about Profilactic, I was a bit skeptical. After all, I already belong to 50 different social networks, but only have time to interact with half of them. While I like checking out new sites, there are also a lot of things that I sign up [...]

Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Search, Technology, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »

This week’s winner of this site of the week contest was Indeed.com. Indeed is your typical job search engine, except on human growth hormones. Instead of of restricting their search to one job site, they aggregate many different jobs listings into one easy to use interface. This can be helpful in many ways. If you [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Davis
Filed under: Disclosure - I own stock in co. mentioned, Search, Site Of The Week, Technology, TiVo, Web 2.0 | Comments Off