September 17th, 2012

Firefly: Screen Sharing For Customer Service And Competition To Salesforce.com’s GoInstant

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Salesforce.com acquired GoInstant earlier this year for $70 million. The startup found a way to break through the complications of software-based web conferencing with a service that allows the sharing of web pages without any plug-in needed.They call it browser collaboration.

The GoInstant sale represents just the start of a sea change coming to the customer service market. Companies… → Read More

February 18th, 2011

Firefly Reruns Returning To Basic Cable

By a show of hands, who here believes Firefly is the best show ever created? Everyone? Good. We can move on then. → Read More

August 21st, 2010

So Now Facebook Has Check-Ins — What About Twitter?

At an event on Wednesday, Facebook unveiled Places, their new location element that allows users to check-in to venues. Obviously, this mimics the core feature of smaller startups like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and dozens of others. The move of the big boys into this space was inevitable, but it is somewhat surprising that it has taken this long. The next question may be: will Twitter follow… → Read More

July 9th, 2010

The Firefly intro re-imaged as an '80s-era show

Yeah, this is probably the best thing you’ll see on the Internet today — maybe this weekend. It’s that good. You’ll appreciate it even if you haven’t seen one episode of Firefly. Fun fact: I’ve only seen the series premier for some reason I can’t explain. → Read More

November 18th, 2009

Comics about video blogs. Dr. Horrible hits shelves today.

Comic books seem to be quite the staple in the Whedonverse bag of tricks. Buffy comes to an end? Comic books. Firefly gets cancelled? Serenity just isn’t enough? Comic books. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is done? Bam. Comic Books. Today is no exception, as the prequel to Dr. Horrible went on sale in full-color glory. → Read More

February 29th, 2008

Microsoft Surface gets its' first game, Firefly

Matt was impressed by the Surface back at CES so I’m inclined to go along based on his judgement. The Sarcastic Gamer gets up close and personal with the Surface’s first game called Firefly. Check out the video and see what it’s all about. It looks really neat. → Read More

January 31st, 2008

FireFly anti-dust device

Sure there are a ton of new digital SLRs with built-in dust reduction systems, but how can you be sure that you’ve got all the dust off? Because most of those systems use variations on the same technology – the imaging sensor or glass covering the sensor is vibrated at high speeds – there’s always a chance that static electricity might cause some dust to stay stuck. The PMA 2008… → Read More