Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/ryanozawa.rss Furl archive. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:56:23 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/36741356/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36741356 A new social blog from Jupiter Media covering applications for mobile devices. Software, web services, and any other kind of app for mobile devices like the Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile smartphones, Symbian smartphones, and "netbook" lightweight subnotes often running Linux or Windows XP. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:45:44 GMT Mobile iPhone Symbian Smartphones Applications Software 3 http://www.furl.net/item/31479435/forward http://www.furl.net/item/31479435 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:31:25 GMT Web 2.0, Unconference, Conference 2.0, Twitter, Social Media We've all been there: the dull business conference. A half-empty room of half-asleep attendees answer their e-mail on laptops and BlackBerries, while some hapless speaker lumbers through a PowerPoint speech. That scenario is about to change, thanks to the growing ubiquity of social media. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/31019146/forward http://www.furl.net/item/31019146 Mitchell Dwyer, Honolulu high school English teacher, hopes to help the world (and its wide web) to improve the quality of its writing, one simple step at a time. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:52:44 GMT Education Language English Spelling Grammar Syntax Help 3 http://www.furl.net/item/29587438/forward http://www.furl.net/item/29587438 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:15:38 GMT Movies Commercials On the way home, what we discussed wasn’t the plot or the shaky grasp of history. It was all the good stuff we’d seen in the trailers (the ads) that weren’t even *in* the movie. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/26128119/forward http://www.furl.net/item/26128119 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:12:20 GMT Entertainment Music Apple iTunes Classical music hardly seems like a growth business. We're forever reading about how concert audiences are graying, and new artists must flounce around fiddling in tank tops and platform heels to get attention. In fact, classical music is doing a lot better than you might think. Although total sales in all music categories fell 5 percent last year, classical sales grew by a whopping 22 percent. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/25160329/forward http://www.furl.net/item/25160329 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:10:52 GMT Business Retail Hawaii The Iwilei Costco - the largest among the company's three Oahu locations - posted $300 million in sales last year. Iwilei is so busy, in fact, that it turns its entire inventory every two-and-a-half to three weeks... a logistical wonder considering most everything comes in by water. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/25111512/forward http://www.furl.net/item/25111512 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:55:01 GMT Business Television Even if you could say Abazab or Eefoof without snickering, would you want to do business with them? Would you feel OK owning Wakoopa shares in your 401(k)? Telling potential in-laws you met on Frengo? Relying on Ooma to call Grandma? 3 http://www.furl.net/item/22913652/forward http://www.furl.net/item/22913652 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:04:45 GMT Entertainment Television Fox's quickly canceled drama "Drive" has inadvertently made TV academy history on Thursday, becoming the first-ever Primetime Emmy broadband nominee. Twenty years from now, when Emmy only recognizes programming found on the Internet, historians will point to the mostly forgotten "Drive" as the show that started it all. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/21767764/forward http://www.furl.net/item/21767764 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:25:24 GMT Business Detention in a toy factory says something about the new power of the Chinese marketplace. "Factory bosses, I would discover, can overrule the police, and Chinese government officials are not as powerful as you might suspect in a country addicted to foreign investment." 3 http://www.furl.net/item/21767150/forward http://www.furl.net/item/21767150 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:02:09 GMT Business Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no “slow” lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier. 3