Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Ever since I attended 37 signals "Getting Real" workshop I've want to put some of their design principles to the test. My company is Syntenic, a boutique consulting and services shop primarily focused on web operations, performance optimization via application delivery controllers (load balancing and server offload) and 24x7 high ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Alistair, who has been writing recently at GigaOM, puts together the most lucid synthesis I have seen on the topic of the "Web OS."
Big Internet companies are making themselves the OS of the web 2.0 world. In addition to the fundamentals — operating a web application, storing data, handling logins ...
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007
or "How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet"
A disproportionate amount of brilliant stuff was written by Douglas Adams, who in 1999 had this to say about the internet:
the biggest problem is that we are still the first generation of users, and for all that we may have ...
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
The folks at Groupscope give us some fascinating looks into, among other things, the relationships behind some successful so-called "Web 2.0" startup ventures:
From the Linksviewer blog.
I wonder how severe the survivorship bias is. It would be more interesting to see all ventures that these individuals were involved with (perhaps the ...
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
I agree vehemently with Alistair that folks who spent time decrying the lack of general quality in the blogosphere or on Flickr or the internet in general are missing the point. Average quality doesn't matter. Who cares if my free stock photo site has mostly crap on it, the question ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Austin at Billions with Zero Knowledge is blogging at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference. This got me thinking again about all this of web nomenclature hoopla which seems to have spread like the Code Red worm (see below) with monikers such as "office 2.0," "enterprise 2.0," "identity 2.0," etc.... Anytime ...
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
One phish, two phish, red phishing-shield, green phishing-shield
Microsoft and Mozilla have released their new browsers Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 which include anti-phishing features that warn end users about web sites which suspected or known to pose as trusted parties for the purpose of stealing sensitive information such as ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Concerned about your air quality? Crime rates? Thinking of moving perhaps? Neighboroo provides a cool heatmap style mashup of geographic data and Google maps, designed to let you research the key characteristics of neighbourhoods which matter to you.
I would like to see something similar for Canada.
Via the fabulous Infosthetics.
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
Choose a problem which frustrates you on a daily basis that you think you can solve. You shouldn't have to look far. Passion is key, make sure you can get worked up about it.
Hone your powers of concentration. They are your brain's "killer app."
Learn to communicate succinctly.
Design efficiently and effectively.
Embrace ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Adam (crypto nerd extraordinaire, former evil-genius at Zero Knowledge) from the Emergent Chaos "jazz combo" throws us a reference and ties it in with an amusing story about misguided security concepts.
The Emporer's New Computer
Affixing a Mac logo to my PC was, after all, motivated by a combination of personal amusement ...
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Last week I attended the 37Signals "Getting Real" workshop where they indoctrinated the attendees on their parsimonious approach to building and running web applications. Getting Real is an exciting approach to software development currently largely practiced by Mac-toting revolutionaries. But rumours of folks building really useful applications and economically sustainable ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
40 years of pop music summaried in 37 minutes
Before I get to one of the more interesting pieces of music aware software I have seen lately, I need to credit Alex Gelfand with another interesting music nerd article in Wired:
DuBois...has developed a technique he calls "time-lapse phonography." ... DuBois devised ...
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