I was a beta tester for Squidoo early on, and honestly, I still have no clue about what it does. People can run their own weblogs, so why write on Squidoo? People want to determine their own content types, so why only stick to the “modules” Squidoo provides? I don’t get it, but maybe lots Read more »
No Firewire On Intel iBooks???
Dec. 9, 2005
Mr. Jason O’Grady is reporting at ZDNet that the rumored Intel iBooks coming in January will not have Firewire (IEEE-1394) inputs, continuing a trend started with iPods dropping Firewire for USB 2.0. Wow, let’s hope this can’t be true, because…
Web 2.0 Scalability In The Bullseye
Dec. 7, 2005
Jeremy Wright posted an entry the other day titled, “Web 2.0 Companies Need To Scale” where he talked about how infrastructure scalability is sometimes not written into the plans of new “web 2.0″ companies and I agree. He then continues to talk about how executives at companies want 3 or 5 9′s of uptime (99.999% Read more »
Lean XHTML and Precise CSS
Dec. 5, 2005
Paul often tells me the CSS I write tends to look like complicated C code, and for the most part, I’d agree. The stylesheets I usually produce rely almost exclusively on descendant selectors which let me pinpoint <div>‘s, headings, and other tags in a very precise manner for styling. In this entry I’ll talk about Read more »
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X
Nov. 30, 2005
As I’m sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
Web Publishing Software Functionality
Oct. 23, 2005
Previously I expressed some thoughts about current web publishing software, and I got a lot of great answers to the questions I posed. Now I’d like to take it a bit deeper and find out what functionality is really needed and what’s just fluff.
Flock and Web 2.0: The Leaning Tower of Buzz
Oct. 7, 2005
Well everybody, if you haven’t been seeing PR praise for Flock on the interweb then you must have been living under a Web 1.0 rock for awhile. Wired has praised it, Bessemer Venture Partners and many others gave them tons of money (enough to hire ~12 people out the shoot, supposedly around $2 million), nearly Read more »
“Web 2.0″ Noticings
Oct. 2, 2005
I have to use air quotes whenever I mention “web 2.0″ for fear that if I forget them, someone will call me out to explain what “web 2.0″ actually means. There’s no real in-depth entry here, just a few things that made me do a double-take as of late:
Minty Fresh Mint, Now Available
Sep. 5, 2005
Shaun Inman’s statistical brainchild, Mint, is now live. He (unfortunately) never shot a demo version my way, so this is my first time playing with it and I have to say it’s exactly what I thought it would be, and a lot more. It’s very cool, and I hope he makes a mint from sales Read more »
IE7 Built-In Aggregation Thoughts
Aug. 19, 2005
I’m currently sitting at the BBS keynote, watching a Microsoft engineer demonstrate the new RSS capabilities built into Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7. Read more about it over at ForeverGeek.com. Personally, I don’t really “get it.”
New TypePad and MovableType Features
Jul. 13, 2005
SixApart just announced some great new features to TypePad, their hosted weblog service: “Weblog owners now have the option to turn on default comment moderation for all posts made to any of their weblogs. With comment moderation turned on, new comments will not be visible to the public until they have been approved by the Read more »
Technology All Around Us
Jul. 6, 2005
This post really has nothing to do with weblogs, but is mainly just a verbalization of the amazement I have for technology. Read on.
That New Sixty Thing
Jun. 27, 2005
I was talking with my buddy Adam Michela the other day, and he gave me the run-down of his new project, Sixtyspots. Here’s the skinny: It makes travel more fun. Without giving away too many of Adam’s project secrets, Sixtyspots will let you find out great recommendations for where to go, what to do when Read more »
Nokia Phone Browsers Running Safari?
Jun. 14, 2005
Apple has teamed up with Nokia to produce an open source version of Safari to work on the next Nokia cellphones due out next year. This new web browser project is supposed to be compatible with a slew of other cellphones as well, including ones from LG and Samsung. This announcement comes after Apple recently Read more »
Apple/Intel Roundup and Commentary
Jun. 6, 2005
As unlikely as it seems, Steve Jobs has thrown caution to the wind and dumped IBM for Intel with Intel-based Macs coming this time next year. This switch brings many questions like “Mac OS X on a machine from Wal-Mart?”, “Every virus in existence now works on Macs?” and “Steve Jobs didn’t wear blue jeans Read more »
