22.Dec.2009 Quote – Jonathan Rosenberg of Google
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not [...]
17.Dec.2009 How insignificant are we really?
I can’t help but feel small after watching this video: [source: Gizmodo]
09.Dec.2009 Dear HBO: Tell Cable to Suck It.
I love HBO. And when I have it, it dominates my Sunday night. The programming is just awesome. HBO rarely pilots a crap show (Flight of the Concords, True Blood, Entourage, The Life and Times of Tim and even Hung are all great). Not to mention Real Sports and all of the great HBO original [...]
01.Dec.2009 Thriller bot
You might ask “why?” Why not?
30.Nov.2009 What I do as a non-programmer
A few weeks ago Spencer Fry (Carbonmade) posted a nice article about what he does as a non-technical/non-programmer employee/executive at a web-based company. I had already been playing around with a post discussing the same (his is very good) but it inadvertently fell to the wayside while I was…well…doing those things I wrote on my [...]
24.Nov.2009 Android is the Ultimate iPhone Killer
Really this all looks like common sense to me. Apple is great, the iPhone is wonderful (even the ipod touch is a superb product). The Apple OS for their phones and ipods is flawless, intuitive and crisp. It’s no wonder they’ve grabbed so much of the “app phone” market (to borrow a phrase from David Pogue); [...]
18.Nov.2009 Quote – Steve Jobs
We believe there are only two significant brands in the film industry—”Disney” and “Steven Spielberg”. We would like to establish “Pixar” as the third. Steve Jobs in the Pixar Annual Report, 1996
17.Nov.2009 Athletes and Technology
Gizmodo is running a special section this week entitled “This Cyborg Life“. I love robots and a few people, so naturally I’m enjoying their quips. More so I really enjoyed the article guest-written by Aimee Mullins, who’s one of the fastest women in the world, on artificial legs. She wrote about the prevalence of technology [...]
30.Oct.2009 The best customer is a DIYer
If you work in customer service in a web-based company, the best type of customer you can ask for is a “do it yourself-er”, that shares their discoveries. Why? For a few reasons: The best characteristic of a DIYer is that they’re usually tech savvy. They’re using your site not because they’ve been forced to [...]
28.Oct.2009 A little Internet background history
The LA Times had a great piece about the formation of the Internet (the one Al Gore built, that is, the DARPA funded initiative). Tomorrow, October 29th, 2009 the Internet turns 40 (my how it’s matured in the last few years). The article is a quick and easy read about how a few (much younger [...]
