With halloween coming up (and with all of my readership being so lazy efficient) I thought I’d post this link, on becoming a shirt ninja.

Word to the wise - if you’re going to be wearing this for any length of time, you should probably pick a clean shirt.

Well, maybe a month or two ago, it was reported that the Wii had outsold the xBox 360 - my first response was, “Nextgenwars doens’t say that at all!”.

Well, as we can see at the bottom of my blog, NextGenWars’s counts are getting pretty damn close - the Wii is only about 40,000 units away from beating the 360.

I wish I had more time, to actually look at where the various sources are getting their data from; as it’s an interesting discrepancy.

This, to me, shows that no one’s winning the format war. Samsung had two players in the development pipeline. One was an advanced, dedicated Blu-Ray player. The other was an advanced dual-format player.

The Blu-Ray only player was just canceled.

I think that EVERY consumer right now wants to keep their options open so far as formats are concerned. And I still maintain that most customers think DVDs are awesome.

Just some 5 minutes or so after I posted that Google or Microsoft might get some stock in Facebook, CNET confirmed that Microsoft won.

Microsoft’s getting a 1.6% share for something like a quarter of a billion dollars (which values Facebook at $15 Billion total). Other terms of the deal are similar to what was reported earlier (so, an exclusive Microsoft advertising deal).

Frankly, I don’t see why Facebook doesn’t just sell out completely - it’s only a matter of time until this social networking bubble bursts; I seem to be running into more and more people who’re frustrated with Facebook and interacting with it less - it won’t be the ubiquitous “go to” network for forever.

Apparently Facebook is making a major “Advertising Related Announcement” on November 6th. I imagine it’s something related to the monetization of applications (since, “Places You’ve Been” has to start making some money sometime…), but I suppose we’ll see (or just wait 5 minutes, so CNET can report all the details… haha)

Here’s the CNET article with some more details

Well, just last night I realized it…

Gmail has IMAP SUPPORT!

About damn time… people have been requesting that since Gmail first came onto the scene as an invite-only affair.

The official Gmail blog has a post on it - but it’s awfully scant on details about HOW it’ll actually work (I haven’t had time to monkey with it yet).

For those who don’t know, IMAP is a method of synchronizing your online inbox with other clients - so your Gmail account can link to your Outlook account. What makes IMAP rox0r people’s box0rz is that, unlike POP (which Gmail has had for forever), IMAP maintains synchronization.

Let’s look at a quick scenario.

I’ve got Gmail online, a blackberry (no, I don’t…), a laptop with Outlook, and a desktop with Outlook. I could have, in the past, had all three of those devices use POP to access my Gmail account - but, when I got a new message, it would pop up as a new message in 4 places, and I would have to check and deal with that message 4 times.

With IMAP, no matter what device I’m on, if I check a message, it’s read everywhere. If I delete a message, it’s deleted everywhere, and if I file a message away, it’s filed away everywhere.

What I’m unsure of is how Gmail’s labels work with Outlook’s folders (a message can have many labels, but a message can only be in one folder at a time…)

If anyone actually goes about doing it in the next week or so, let me know how things go. About a week from now my life gets MUCH less interesting, so I’ll probably try it out then.

Shut up, it’s hard to sing in titles…

Word has it that Microsoft or Google are going to buy a 5-10% stake in Facebook, as well as gain the right to put up advertisements on Facebook as it expands to foreign markets (Microsoft already holds those rights in North America).

Apparently VPs from both companies have been in to make pitches to Facebook.

I’m sorta hoping that Google wins it… just because so much of my online life more or less revolves around Google already, why not?

Also, Google has some vested interest in helping to “jailbreak” some information from Facebook (mostly for search indexing purposes (BOO), but hopefully more then that will come in the future).

On the other hand, if Google looses, maybe they’ll come up with their own service… hmm….