As you might have noticed, there hasn’t been much activity here on my personal blog. I have been fairly busy with several projects I am working on, which I will surely talk about soon, but I have decided to make a comeback to personal blogging. I just moved OnlyJames.com to the Rackspace Cloud, and I am currently working on redesigning the entire site. I might even be moving from WordPress to Django. So, stick with me while I dust everything off.

Research In Motion (RIMM), the company responsible for inspiring the creation of CrackBerry.com, a site dedicated to BlackBerry users and abusers, is going to be causing many BlackBerry owners to miss out on work this upcoming Friday. People are expected to line up bright and early at Verizon Wireless retailers nationwide to get their hands on the one of the most highly anticipated mobile phone releases left in 2008, the BlackBerry Storm. But will it live up to the hype?

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Mark Cuban, Internet entrepreneur, HDNet owner and Dallas Mavericks team owner, is quite the tech savvy guy. Interestingly, he is someone that I looked up to — someone I believed that could achieve success and still be a normal guy. However, allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that he participated in insider trading in 2004 with Mamma.com has forced me to question my belief in Mr. Cuban.

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If you want to talk about a company with problems, Yahoo! would likely come up in the conversation. The once unstoppable internet giant has quickly faded away from the spotlight, and, worse still, it has almost faded entirely from existence. With angry investors, impatient media, and one persistent Carl Icahn, Yahoo needs to get its act together soon if it wants to continue being independent. There are a few potential solutions to all these problems that might help Yahoo to right itself, but they are few in number.

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I just had a thought about how interesting it would be to have a feed reader that was no longer focused on individual blogs, but instead, it was focused on subscribing to individuals like journalists and bloggers—the people who create the content. This would put more emphasis on the content creators, and that, in my opinion, is a great thing. But it then dawned on me that this was such a ridiculous idea!

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Here is a quick heads up on an amazing deal I found—the Mac Bundle Box is a special deal that was recently brought to my attention through a blog post by Chris Pirillo. Essentially, 15 applications are included in a package deal that costs $49.95. The total value of each application together is over $300. At first, I thought there might be a number of lower quality applications thrown into the mix, but I soon learned differently. I was honestly shocked at the value, as there are some pretty awesome applications included.

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Windows has only taken small strides to advertise Windows Vista in the past, but the “Mojave Experiment” marks a significant effort to market Windows Vista as a product that users should consider (and, for many, reconsider). The advertising campaign has already generated plenty of discussion, so let’s break it all down.

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Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system available today, and that is a given. However, Mac OS X holds a serious amount of potential for future development. This article has nothing to do with which system is better than the other, but, instead, it is focused on which system offers developers the most potential to generate revenue. Mac OS X is ripe for fantastic and innovative software development, and it is, unquestionably, a serious place for developers who want to make those Benjamins.

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Twitter and Jaiku—these two similar services were battling it out for mini-blogging supremacy during a time when the average person had little to no knowledge of what mini-blogging was. Twitter came out on top, but don’t think for a second that it was because Twitter was better. Instead, it was a result of Twitter’s open API which allowed mind-blowing third-party products and services to be created. These third-party products and services have, in many respects, done phenomenally well for Twitter, but now there is a new player in town wanting to earn the respect of similar third-party developers.

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Could you imagine having to subscribe to every application, every song, every video game, every premium website, and most other forms of content you interact with on a daily basis? Well, the possibility that this will occur is constantly growing, and if it is bound to happen, we should expect this trend to become fairly popular within the next 10 years. While businesses would benefit from the increased control, consumers might not be as appreciative to these change.

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