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Category: Technology

  • What About the Open Web?

    Facebook: FarmVille is bigger than Twitter, beyond insane when I think about it. To prove the popularity of these extra-curricular sections of Facebook, Johnson explained: “Applications make up a huge part of Facebook. There are over 90,000 applications on Facebook. “69 million active users are using FarmVille alone, that’s more users than Twitter.” Interestingly, Facebook […]

  • Updates to Netflix for Books

    As an update on my idea for a Netflix type system for books. I realized while discussing the idea with family members over the weekend that there is one important change that probably needs to be made. To make this idea a viable business you would almost have to only allow for e-books. While you […]

  • Netflix for Books

    The tweet that spawned this post Netflix in case you haven’t heard of it is system whereby you give them money and they send you movies by mail that you can keep for as long as you want. No late fees, no extra charges on your account. Mail back the movie in their pre-paid envelope […]

  • Firefox vs. Chrome

    PC World yesterday ran a piece on Chrome and Firefox, comparing the two and essentially Firefox was dead and Chrome was going to win the latest browser battle. Run Chrome and Firefox side-by-side, and Firefox is embarrassingly slow. It’s not even in the same league. It’s an old man on the running track trying to […]

  • What Should A New WordPress Blogger Do?

    This question is sparked within me for two reasons, two new bloggers entered the world. One, the company that I work for has a blog that is relatively new (blog.accade.com), and my g/f is working on launching a blog. Find a really good domain name and keep it. If you don’t have a domain name […]

  • The Case for Web Applications

    Recently Neil McAllister wrote a column for InfoWorld making his case against web applications. I want to make my own case for web applications, pretty convenient since that’s what I want to do as a full time job. It’s client-server all over again Scaling small server farms to meet demand can be a real challenge […]

  • Everybody Take a Step Back and Breathe

    Want to know what happened on the internet today? Slashdot | Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware Google Mistakenly Labels The Internet as Malware Google Red-Faced…And Me, Too Updated – Google: Every site on the Web is harmful Oh and that isn’t even half of the articles that […]

  • Anonymous Comments and Comments with Meaningless Names are the Same Thing

    I recently had a friend recommend an artist (who is someone that they personally know). No problem, that’s the whole point of friends, doing stuff and letting other people know about it. However going to the CDBaby site of the artist, and taking a look at the reviews of the music I get this: Even […]

  • Facebook and Twitter: Different and Both Useful

    Which do you care about more simply getting a stream of conciusicous thoughts from people or a stream of tons of different aspects on that person and lots of information to put it into context. That’s the dilemma facing people signing up for social networks. Each specializes in an area that makes it useful to […]

  • Disqus Now Includes Facebook

    Disqus now has the ability to log in to leave comments via Facebook. So now down where there is that comment section, just sign in using your Facebook account and comment away. I have really enjoyed using Disqus as it lets me see where else have people commented and creates an easy way to have […]