Giggles.net is home to Giggles Computer Funtime for Baby. But first, a confession (paraphrased): “Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies!” That is, I know very little about children and whatever they truly enjoy. That said, Giggles.net appears to offer an excellent product that allows babies to do what I have observed babies do best–bang on things, specifically in this case your computer’s keyboard without the danger of losing or harming your applications and data.
I have just one quibble with the site. If you click on View Demos on the home page, a new window opens that begins a new audio-visual presentation, but the home page presentation does not stop. You therefore are barraged by competing sales spiels. To avoid that one needs merely to wait for the home page audio to cease before viewing the demos.
V CAST, Verizon Wireless, & “Everything The O.C.”
Wednesday, 31 May 2006; 14:14Does anyone else find it ironic that as we progress to larger video screens on increasingly larger computer displays and home TVs there is also a march toward infinitely smaller video delivered via cell phones? And, as home theaters with five or more speakers and Dolby surround-sound become more commonplace we also have tinny-sounding music delivered via our G3 phones that makes Edison’s original phonograph sound downright symphonic? (And therein lies significant debate, in each latter case, if such “e-miniaturized” content delivery ventures will be successful and profitable.)
To give you an idea of what you may be getting with these new (and far too expensive, relatively speaking) services, have a look at this virtual demonstration (click on Videos) offered by Verizon Wireless and what I have heard is a popular TV program, The O.C., for brave ground-breaking consumers and their V CAST phones. (Or in the parlance of professional marketers, opinion leaders and/or early adopters. But in the parlance of reality, people with more money than brains.)
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