12 Days of Techmas: Chumby One

Gadgets

Cute name for cute tech. The Chumby is the cuddly soft internet clock radio that did a little bit of everything. One of the coolest things about it was the squeezably soft Italian leather that surrounded the little doodad. It was just made to be touched, the new pet rock. It was kind of like [...]

Jinni Figures Out What You Want to Watch

Launches

If you’ve ever used a service like Last.fm or Pandora, you can probably appreciate how nice it is to have a piece of software figure out what you what music you’d like to hear based on what you already listen to. These are called content discovery engines because they use what they know about you to figure out what you might like. Now, Jinni provides us the same type of experiences, but for movies and TV shows. They just launched their public beta, so it’s worth a look if you can’t decide what to watch.

Yahoo Takes Music Back To Its’ Roots

News

Yahoo’s new artist pages take the site back to it’s roots as a directory of content rather than a home for the content. Instead of hosting video, photos, and audio directly at Yahoo!, the content for each artist is aggregated from a host of other social media sites.

You have the option to play full-length tracks [...]