Some analysts think a next-gen video game console price war is coming.

If you’re a fan of Ansel Adam’s iconic photos of Yosemite National Park, you’ll enjoy this multimedia feature from the New York Times.  Ansel’s former assistant talks about the story behind nine of his famous photos.

Looking for a parking lot or transit stop in Toronto?  Try Stopfinder.  After you provide the destination address, the service highlights public transit stops.  It also identifies the closest and cheapest parking lots in the area.

TripIt is a free web service that “automatically organizes all your travel plans.”  Supposedly you simply forward each travel confirmation email to their the plans@tripit.com email address.  Using the information in the confirmation emails, TripIt will then compile a personalized travel itinerary that includes weather, driving directions, maps, etc.  They claim to support Canadian travel vendors including Air Canada, WestJet, and ViaRail.

Has anyone tried it?

Their web site provides comprehensive profiles of Toronto neighbourhoods and tips for home buyers.

Each profile is an attractive "mashup" that offers information on housing prices, sales, styles, and taxes as well as performance reports for the local schools.  They also include a directory of nearby entertainment, health, and shopping services that are plotted on a embedded Google Map.

RSS in Plain English

I’ve been subscribing to RSS news feeds for a long time.   It’s easy, saves a lot of time, and automatically keeps me up-to-date on Jeff’s crazy ideas, Finn’s latest photos, and other important news.

Personally, I prefer web-based readers like Bloglines or Google Reader.  That way I can check-in from work or at home.

As it turns out, I’m not the only one looking for an 1.8 to 3.5 IDE adapter.  A number of people have landed here while searching for this elusive adapter.

So for their benefit, I purchased an adapter from 1topstore.com.  It was shipped from Hong Kong and arrived a few weeks later.  The price was reasonable and the unit worked perfectly.

In a recent post, he does an excellent job explaining the concept of the “Internet platform” and outlines 3 types of platforms.

For those that don’t know, Marc helped create the Moasic web browser.  Later, he co-founded Netscape, Opsware, and Ning.

For history buffs, here’s a video of Marc discussing the Moasic web browser at the first Internet Marketing Conference in San Francisco, 1994.  Marc appears around 30 minutes into the video.

Slacker – A few months ago my favourite Internet radio application, Pandora, closed the box to non-US listeners. I suppose their partners didn’t believe all those users claiming their snail mail was delivered to the 90210 zip code.

Since then I’ve been experimenting with Slacker. Although persistent personalized radio stations are not available outside the US, the service is free and the default stations can be customized. 

According to CNET’s Crave blog, Slacker intends to differentiate itself from Pandora and LastFM by selling a portable device that will stream your personalized radio stations via Wi-Fi.

Judging by the traffic in my personal inbox, it seeems a number of my colleagues have just discovered LinkedIn.

Although I`ve had account for a few years, it wasn`t until I listened this podcast interview with Reid Hoffman that I recognized the some value of it.

If you’re new to the service, the folks at Web Worker Daily offer 20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively

Guy Kawasaki has written a number of articles about using LinkedIn:

• Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
• LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover
• LinkedIn and the Art of Avoiding an A**hole Boss

If you`re curious, you can find my profile here.