Looking Back

• RRW: Top 100 Products, Web Platforms, Mobile Web Apps, Biggest mistakes
• Sophos: Top online security threats
• Microsoft's 3 biggest mistakes (Vista, Apple, Yahoo)
• NYT: Buzzwords
• ChannelWeb: Coolest Open Source projects of 2008
• CSO Online: Top 10 Data Breaches
• UMA Today: prediction review
• Last100: Internet TV
• CIO.com: The Eight Hottest Handsets of the Year
• Bad Astronomy: Top Ten Astronomy Pictures
• Last100: Top ten Digital Lifestyle products of 08
• BBC: Best new gear
• Femtocell report card
• Radio World: 2008 in Rearview

Looking Forward

• RRW: Social Media Predictions, Web Predictions
• InsideCRM: CRM & BI predictions
• AppsLab
• Daily Wireless
• Google
• Telecom Ramblings
• Web 3.0 trend map laid out as the Tokyo rail system.

I upgraded my AppleTV (160GB version) as soon as the update was published. I was an early adopter of the aTV. partly out of curiosity and because I was interested in hacking it to more useful things.

Looking Back

Long story short, I bought a Kohjinsha SH6 UMPC. I wanted (needed even) a small, light, portable computer for mobile blogging, travel, business meetings and presentations. It needed WiFi, a decent keyboard and ability to run non-trivial applications like OpenOffice and and SSH client.