A tip for new Nintendo Wii owners: when you go to buy a second Wiimote (the controller for the Wii), don’t buy a standalone remote for $40. Instead, buy the Wiiplay bundle — it includes a second Wii controller and 8-9 other games. The games aren’t all great, but there are a couple of fun ones and it’s definitely worth the extra $10.

Rakesh Agrawal is the CEO of Houston-based SnapStream. You can read more from his personal blog at rake.sh/blog.

Maybe Lost hasn’t jumped the shark after all… things haven’t been as bad since the Hurley-asteroid episode. But I haven’t made up my mind if I’m still watching because I really like the show or because I just want some answers.

Anyways, for the Lost fans out there who are also fans of SNL and Andy Sandberg, you can’t miss this video:

! contains content from 3/21 episode !

Rakesh Agrawal is the CEO of Houston-based SnapStream. You can read more from his personal blog at rake.sh/blog.

I’ve received two online photo albums today from different friends of mine and both used Picasa Web Albums. I hadn’t told either of them about Picasa (though I’ve told lots of other folks about Picasa!)

While there hasn’t been a lot of coverage of it, my guess is that Picasa Web Albums is slowly becoming a gorilla in the online photo sharing space because of the quality of the Picasa client and because of it’s tight integration with Picasa Web Albums. I don’t have any basis for this claim other than 1) I keep coming across more people using Picasa and 2) I’m involved in product development and I think I can recognize a ‘hit’ product when I see one.

Quiet ‘hits’ — as in successful products and companies that aren’t spotlight-seeking and maybe aren’t even that ’sexy’ — are often the most interesting ones. (more…)

While I’m as excited as the next gadget freak by all the talk of the new Apple iPhone, the mythical Google phone, and Palm’s next SmartPhone-move, the new HTC S730 (aka the HTC Wings) could actually be my next phone. I have the Cingular 2125 right now and the clincher for me is that the HTC Wings is about the same size and weight as my 2125 and it has a slideout keyboard.

Cingular 2125 size/weight:
116mm x 46mm x 18mm, 106 grams

HTC Wings size/weight:
100mm x 50mm x 19mm, 120 grams

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