http://www.pberg.com/blog Solving problems since 1979. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:58:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Streaming mobile video service, Qik, has demoed a version of their service which will work on the iPhone. As Mashable reports, they will be facing competition from Flixwagon, who will also be releasing such a service. Here's a video of their demo: http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/06/12/qik-demos-video-on-the-iphone/ I've been working on a post talking about the challenges that Twitter has faced lately and why I think they're on shaky ground these days, but before I get a chance to finish it and post it here I figured I'd link to a post on the Twitter blog where ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/06/03/twitter-transparency/ The awesome folks over at Get Satisfaction launched two sweet new features today. I'm extremely pleased to add that Joby was among the very first to implement beta versions of their new Help Center software. Over the past few days I've been working on getting our Joby version of the Help ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/05/22/getting-satisfaction/ Not sure what's going on right now, but it appears that Apple.com is borked. This can't be good for the almighty Jobs. http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/04/22/choking-on-an-apple/ There are few tech things I love more than my dear, sweet Blackberry (recent crashing issues notwithstanding), but one thing that comes close is Twitter. So what could be better than something which marries the two? In an attempt to do just that I downloaded Twitterberry the other day to ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/04/21/a-short-lived-affair/ Hooray! Web 2.0 Expo is here. What does that mean? Well, beside the fact that there are way more tech nerds in SF than usual, it also means a lot of companies are spending perfectly good VC money to get you liquored up. For all you party animals out there, here's ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/04/21/drink-for-free-all-week/ Brilliant breakdown of the song "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/04/01/youre-beautiful-redux/ I recently returned from two weeks in Europe, attending a trade show, working from our Geneva office, and then a little fun in Paris. Along the way I learned several things. Here are some of those lessons: Mullets are still very much in style among Eastern Europeans. Europeans still like Americans, even ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/03/22/some-things-i-learned-in-europe/ Greetings from Geneva! I'm working out of our European office this week after attending CeBIT in Hannover last week. The tradeshow was huge, with over 500,000 people attending. And although it was a lot of work, we got some great leads, maintained our existing business relationships, and had a ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/03/18/bonjour-de-geneve/ I'll be at CES in Las Vegas next week, representing Joby and promoting our new product offerings. Come visit us at booth #71037 in the Sands! If anyone will be in Vegas, drop me a line at peter [at] pberg.com. I'll try to post some updates from the field, so watch this ... http://www.pberg.com/blog/2008/01/05/going-to-ces/