Popbox is a setup box that plays just about any kind of media you can throw at it. The box is about the size of a router and comes with a variety of built-in “Pop Apps,” including Netflix 2.0, Photobucket, Shoutcast, Revision3, Weatherbug, Twitter, Channels.com, Fun Spot Games and others. Additionally, Popbox has a full featured SDK available to developers for full screen applications or applets.
During my brief interaction with Popbox at a CES press preview show, the navigation seemed pretty smooth and intuitive.
The Popbox carries an initial retail price of $129 and should be available in March 2010.
Sadly, the CrunchPad is no more. There have been a lot of haters directing their spite toward either the product or Michael Arrington and, while I don’t agree with everything Arrington has to say, I was genuinely looking forward to this product.
As with many products and startups, fundamental differences in business partners’ ideas (and, perhaps a bit of greed) killed the CrunchPad.
Arrington’s full rundown on the death of the CrunchPad is here. John Biggs’ take is at CrunchGear. Even if you didn’t care for the CrunchPad, both accounts are an interesting look behind the scenes.
There’s a lot of stuff on Facebook that I simply don’t understand. However, one thing that I certainly know is that the new News Feed / Live Feed stinks.
I’ve seen tons of people post examples of how to get the “old Facebook” feed back. The short of it is to move “Status Updates” to the default feed on your Facebook home page.
But, it’s not really the same.
You don’t get links, videos and picture updates. I know some now tell people in their status that there is new content (like links, video and pics) on their wall because so many people have moved to the “Status Updates” as default.
If you want to get Status Updates, News Feed, Pics, Links, etc. in your default feed, here’s how. [click to continue…]
So I logged onto Xbox LIVE last night for a little Halo 3 multiplayer, and was surprised to see Facebook on my dashboard.
Sure enough though, Facebook made the official connection to Xbox LIVE yesterday. I haven’t had the chance to give it a full run through (and I’m not sure I really want to connect with all my Facebook friends on my Xbox), but it’s still one of those big steps in our ever-expanding social world.
There’s a lot more detail on the connection over at the Facebook Blog.
