Man, that was a lengthy game! I guess any open world game, such as L.A. Noire,  is bound to be lengthy since you have the ability to explore the world at your own leisure. This game was getting a lot of 5-star ratings, which is why I decided to play it (the star studded cast was also another major motivator).  Having played and finished the game I think that it is indeed a 5-star game!

Well, that was a bit short lived! Just last week I was pondering how much longer Instapaper will be a paid app given that apps and services, among them Spool, we're available for free. Well, spool is now gone into the graveyard of Web 2.0 apps and services. The nice thing about spool was that you could save multimedia for late viewing, not just text. I hope other services jump on the multimedia time

Την περασμένη εβδομάδα πήρα χαμπάρι πως η Apple κυκλοφόρησε μια δική της εφαρμογή για podcatching και για να ακούς podcast.  Ένα από τα  κύρια θέματα με το iOS για 'μένα είναι πως από την αρχή έπρεπε να συνδέσεις την συσκευή στο

I just came across this TED video (in a workshop I am taking).  This short video was pretty good! Going from Human Gatekeepers (of information) to Algorithmic Gatekeepers.

Αυτό το περασμένο σαββατοκύριακο, εκεί που καθάριζα τις πεθαμένες πια web 2.0 υπηρεσίες από τα bookmarks μου άρχισα να σκέφτομαι περί του delicious και του diigo, αλλά και άλλον υπηρεσιών bookmarking  και social bookmarking, και το αν είναι ακόμα

I was browsing the AppStore the other day and I saw that Instapaper was cheaper than its normal price Maybe if this were the original price I would have gone for Instapaper over ReadItLater ;-). In any case, I was in a temptation to buy it!  After all, Instapaper was my original "save for later reading" application on iOS, and I only changed to ReaditLater (now Pocket) because there was no free

My weekend Web 2.0 cleanup yielded another service that apparently went belly up over the past six months. Mediafly still exists, but they are focusing their work on the Enterprise and not on the consumer. I wonder if they will go the way of Britekite due to this restructuring.In any case, mediafly onair was a way to subscribe to your favorite podcasts using a web interface and then access that list

This past weekend I was doing some summer cleanup of various Web 2.0 services and I was planning on checking up Ping.fm to see if I needed to clean up anything in my settings. I really enjoyed being able to cross-post to various networks. Ironically, the networks that I had as backups to twitter (such as Jaiku, youare and posterous) have all either been bought out and closed, or have just ceased operations

Well, the end is here! The end of MobileMe, that is. Anyone visiting MobileMe will get a "closed for business" sign that seems all too familiar. I started using .Mac around 2004-2005. Sure, I had an iTools account before (which I rarely used) , but later on I signed up for .Mac for one and only one reason: cheap web hosting! Back then it was cheaper to pay $99 per year for HTML hosting, and you got

Google IO just passed by me yesterday.  I guess the days where I could stop and be in awe of keynotes at developer conferences are over lol - too much work to do!  In any case, I skimmed the news yesterday on Engadget and theVerge, and things seem quite interesting! Here are some quick thoughts on the various announcements: The Nexus 7 You know, this was a bit of a "m'eh" for me.  Don't