We want to continuing getting our readers to use RSS feeds to get their content. You read the other day about Personalized Homepages and now today we’d like you to use this Feedburner feed to access Butterboom through your Yahoo! Mail or your Personalized Homepage. Copy and paste this feed address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/butterboom/
If you have a 3G or internet-enabled phone you can also read Butterboom.com on your phone. We have installed the Opera Mini-Browser and from there have added the feed above which will send you the newest postings you would see on the site on your phone.
Try it out, you can add all kinds of other content too and read it anywhere in Hong Kong. Watch this video if you need help setting it up or understanding what RSS is all about.
ITunes had a 9.8 percent market share in the first quarter, ranking behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s 15.8 percent and Best Buy Co.’s 13.8 percent, according to The NPD Group. Online retailer Amazon.com’s share was 6.7 percent, slightly ahead of Target’s 6.6 percent, NPD said.
Apple’s rise in the NPD survey reflects a key shift in the music industry: Compact disc sales are declining while digital music sales are climbing. That, plus the popularity of Apple’s iPod portable music players, has helped boost iTunes sales.
Still, digital music represented less than a quarter of total music units sold during the quarter, NPD said.
The promise made in the dotcom era is coming true, albeit slowly, but soon you’ll be saying good-bye to the CD’s like we already said good-bye to the vinyl and record player.
Hey, at least we’re getting a theatrical release of what is supposed to be 2-movies-for-the-price-of-1. Depending on if you like Robert Rodriguez‘s movies (Director of Desperado, Sin City and The Faculty) then you’ll want to catch this love-letter to the B-movie starting today in Hong Kong. Girls, guns, monsters and craziness as a refreshing pace to the Summer blockbuster.
Bruce Willis plays Detective John McClane for the 4th time in Live Free or Die Hard or as it will be known in Hong Kong: Die Hard 4.0 (we’re just such a techy place, aren’t we.) We weren’t even thinking of seeing this, but the reviews have been pretty positive and this one sums up our thoughts so we might reconsider our stance:
Live Free or Die Hard could have very easily been a complete piece of crap. I wasn’t inspired by the trailers, and I wasn’t really looking forward to see the film…and I’m a Die Hard fan….even Die Hard 2: Die Harder…so, I was extremely surprised, and extremely happy to see that this is a true sequel in tone and feeling to the Die Hard films. It is more of a sequel to Die Hard with a Vengeance, as far as plot and pacing are concerned, but it is a solid as all hell action flick the likes of which we haven’t seen in a decade.
This is how action movies are supposed to be.
It’s full of insane action, witty dialogue, a moderately compelling plot, and lots of bad guys getting their asses handed to them.
That guy sounds like us – so it sounds like it could be a winner. Is the sequel curse usually only reserved for the 3rd installment?
And of course Hong Kong’s Maggie Q is in it – hopefully doing a bit more than Tom Cruise let her do in Mission: Impossible 3 last year, but her agent is great, getting her into Grade-A blockbusters. You go Maggie! Here she is at a press conference in Singapore:
The two things we don’t get in Hong Kong just yet.
The two things the web has been abuzz over our holiday has been all about tech: the launch of the iPhone on Friday and the upcoming release of the Transformers movie.
And this is the first video clip we’ve seen that we hear Megatron’s voice (so distorted you can’t even tell it’s Hugo “Agent Smith” Weaving.)
Transformers will FINALLY open in Hong Kong in 4 grueling weeks on July 26. iPhone in 2008 at a TBD date.
UPDATE: This site is reporting that 500,000 iPhone’s were sold over the weekend. Yes you read that right – Half a million were sold in the US from Friday to Monday with an expected 1 MILLION by this coming weekend!
We did an unscientific poll of people in Lan Kwai Fong on Saturday night to see how many people had personalized homepages. Surprisingly many of the people we asked did, but the ones that didn;t, didn;t even know what it was.
Instead of surfing your bookmarks you can have a Personailzed Homepage that brings your web to you all on one page, and this is what we call your personilaed Homepage. Many people in Hong Kong use My Yahoo since they use alot of the services but there are other free services out there and this site reviews 14 different offerings you should check out.
We use NetVibes because we can easily drag and drop sections and create page that checks all our email accounts, the weather, the news from 10 different websites and has sticky notes, photos, auctions etc. and we can access this from any computer by logging in. Butterboom.com‘s RSS feed can be sent into this personalized page so that at a glance you can see what new stories we have posted without having to specifically come to the site everyday.
Its the web the way you want it, you customize it and you tell it what you want to see and what is important to you. A great way for people on the go and want a snapshot of what is going on with their morning coffee. The easiest analogy is that you are basically creating your own front page of a newspaper with the topics that you are most interested in. Don’t be left behind, check out the reviews and choose the one that’s best for you.
Will something good show up at the movies next year?
Not happy with what you’ve seen so far in 2007? Here is a slate from Slate of what is coming out in 2008. Besides Indiana Jones 4 and Speed Racer who have medium-high expectations, and hopefully an improved Hulk 2 there isn’t that much on this list that looks super exciting in a line-up and dress-up way. Does this mean the death of Summer blockbusters?
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