Kontroversial Keith

Category: technology

  • No More H&R Block Software for Tax Season for Me

    Today, I received my second letter (actually my mom’s second letter) from the IRS concerning how the bank funds for her taxes were not paid. I don’t know what happened exactly in the transaction process but H&R Block’s software failed on two different accounts to properly submit my mom’s bank account information to the IRS.…

  • Social Video Technology: Youtube vs Younow vs Twitch/Justin.TV vs Keek

    I decided to do a small round up of various popular video services and navigate the different aspects between them that I’ve seen and where they each fit in within the ecosystem of the online video world. While there are other services that might be similar, these four I think are interesting in themselves (of…

  • Game Live Streaming: Why You Should or Should Not Do It

    I’m slightly involved in the game streaming community, acting as a very casual moderator for two channels. I’ve been quite interested in the live streaming world for sometime now, but never have made an attempt to give it a shot. As someone who is fairly passionate about games, social media and new media, I have…

  • What is Yahoo: A Whore

    The revolving door executive soap opera at Yahoo continues with their latest CEO already out for essentially fabricating his CS degree. Why no one at Yahoo (nor ebay/PayPal for that matter) didn’t do thorough due diligence is a mystery. Still, what’s left at Yahoo is quite sad as the one mighty tighten is nothing more…

  • How You Can Contribute To Prevent SOPA

    The big controversy in congress is about the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). The thing is that the primary supporters for this bill are Big Media. In my opinion, this is the last desperate attempt by Big Media in their fight against new media (i.e. the internet) by giving the government and themselves the ability…

  • The Future of Web Technologies

    Recently, I’ve been posting to my company’s Yammer feed articles about platforms and software in relation to the web. There’s a lot of validation on what makes some of the top companies big players and I believe the key is in the idea of centering the business as a form of a platform. When you…

  • Bye Bye WebOS. Didn’t Even Get to Know Ya

    HP made a rather shocking, albeit somewhat expected (from me), announcement earlier this week in pulling out WebOS and their consumer computing in exchange for focusing on business computing. While the entire withdrawal from the PC market is a massive change in direction for them that bewildered me, the end of WebOS wasn’t so much…

  • How This Is No Bubble 2.0

    Marc Andreessen had an interesting article discussing about how software has become a dominant factor in the world to the point where it’s the driving force behind almost all industries. Part of the article addresses concerns about the difference between the original Dot Com Bubble Burst and the current situation in terms of economics, using…