By now it’s all over the blogosphere that Apple took the iSight off from their online store. I kindda noticed this last Saturday when I searched around for one on Amazon. I bought one from a guy at Cafe Sappore, our neighborhood coffee shop in North Beach. He upgraded his PowerBook to a MacBook Pro and no longer needed it. I had always wanted an iSight, but buying 2 of them was quite a bit of money considering you can get like a 8MP digicam for less. But I got Sherry a MacBook for x’mas and it had a built-in iSight, I had to get one for myself so we can do vid chat when I’m in south bay during the week. I suspect A LOT of people now want iSights as well because their family and friends are getting new Macs with built-in iSights.

Apple probably took them off at a pretty bad time, I think they would’ve sold quite a few of them this holiday season, HAHA!

Now the iSights are going for more than full price on eBay, pretty insane. This is actually quite typical of Apple products, it’s amazing really. Like when we parted out Sherry’s iBook G3 when it was replaced by Apple with a G4 free of charge, we found out that the Airport card (non-Express) for the G3 was no longer available anywhere, and used ones were commanding almost full price on eBay!

Now that CS3 beta is out maybe I’ll upgrade to a MBP and sell the iSight, I copped mine for 70 bucks, great deal really… 😆

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Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo?s ?Project Fraternity? Docs Leaked

Our sources say that Facebook flatly rejected the $1 billion offer, looking for far more. Yahoo was prepared to pay up to $1.62 billion, but negotiations broke off before the offer could be made.

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This is pretty cool idea, and it makes so much sense… I like the part where they have Jabber for your domain for GTalk too… I wonder why they didn’t hook up their Blogger service to this though…

Since my blog is at a subdomain, I could point my domain to this and keep the blog on my server, this way I won’t have to handle my mails (and spams)… well… I’ll think about it…

Google Apps for Your Domain

Get your people talking

Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively. These services are all unified by the start page, a new addition to this service, a unique, dynamic page where your users can preview their inboxes and calendars, browse content and links that you choose, search the web, and further customize the page to their liking. You can also design and publish web pages for your domain. If you already have a domain, it’s all free* and everything is hosted by Google. No hardware or software required. If you don’t have a domain yet we’ll help you register a new one for $10 a year.

You can choose any combination of these Google services

	The start page  –  A central place for your users to preview their inboxes and calendars, access your essential content, and search the web.
	Gmail  –  Offer email to your users with 2 gigabytes of storage per account, search tools to help them find information fast, and instant messaging built right into the browser.
	Google Talk  –  Your users can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free — anytime, anywhere in the world.
	Google Calendar  –  Users can organize their schedules and share events, meetings and entire calendars with others.
	Google Page Creator  –  Create and publish web pages for your domain quickly and easily with this what-you-see-is-what-you-get page design tool.

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I thought Cingular would be okay around here coz they advertise that they got the “best coverage” from an “independent study”, I guess they don’t… hmmm… Apple better release a CDMA iPhone… damnit!

Cingular VS Verizon – south bay – Yelp

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I use SkypeOut at home a lot since they made calls to US and Canada free, I mainly use it to call non-Verizon people doing peak hours and also to call customer service numbers that I expect to be put on hold for an extended period of time. Starting 2007 calls to non-tollfree numbers will no longer be free. I will still use it for toll-free CS numbers for sure… 30 bucks per year for unlimited US calls is not a bad deal if I use it enough… I was able to dial down the voice portion of my cellphone plan because of Skype… Actually I would use it a lot more if it worked well on my POS IBM ThinkPad work laptop, but it just doesn’t work very well, voice quality is shit on that thing, and it’s worse if I use it with a Bluetooth headset… and I refuse to bring in my own Mac to work just to use Skype…

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Time For Skype To Start Charging In The U.S.

Unlimited yearly calling will cost $29.95. If you purchase the plan before January 31, 2007, it will only cost $14.95. Without an unlimited plan, users can pay 2.1 cents per minute to calls within the U.S. and Canada, which is the same as the rate for international calls.

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