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August 2006

“Getting the cool kids to try your technology isn’t the same thing as having a long-term business proposition.”

Scoble has a good commentary and links to more commentary about Kiko. Kiko is a web 2.0 / ajax / cool calendar application that appears to be throwing in the towel. Here’s what Scoble had to say: Does Kiko predict more Web 2.0 failures?” href=”http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/17/does-kiko-predict-more-web-20-failures/”>Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger > Does Kiko predict more Web 2.0 failures? This quote: “Getting the cool kids to try your technology isn’t the same thing as having a long-term business proposition.” rings true to me. I have a constant internal battle (which I’ve written about more than once) around the theme of why everyone expects everything to be free. And by the way why anything that takes more than 2 months to build is too long. Maybe for the cool kids, but for a real company with a real business, it’s gonna take you longer than 2 months.

Demographically insensitive user interface

Picture 1-1 I was playing around with one or the other web site the other day, and upon requesting a registration I was asked to provide a secret answer to a question so that sometime in the future I could prove my identity. You know, kind of like the Web 2.0 version of “Mother’s maiden name.” But in order to be Web 2.0 they let me pick from a slew of alternative questions, because “Mother’s maiden name is just so five minutes ago.” Here are the questions. Not very helpful. I can’t remember the answer to any of those! Technorati Tags: funny, security

James Fallows: “The War on Terror is Over”

Another great article in The Atlantic, James Fallows: “Declaring Victory“ “The United States is succeeding in its struggle against terrorism. The time has come to declare the war on terror over, so that an even more effective military and diplomatic campaign can begin.” (James Fallows, from Declaring Victory) Yes it sounds very strange given today’s occurrences, but it’s an excellent article that is kind of persuasive. It doesn’t go in the direction that the blurb above might make you think. “But the...

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How to add a map to any blog page

I came across this interesting bit in LifeHacker: WikiMapia – The geographical wikipedia – Lifehacker. It teaches that using WikiMapia, you can add a map to any web page in 30 seconds. If that claim is true, then you should be seeing a map of where I was born below. If you don’t see that map, then ignore this post, please 🙂 http://wikimapia.org/s/#y=12212522&x=-68950195&z=10&l=0&m=a p.s. It worked!!!Just shows that there’s nothing you can’t get from the internet, and that Google Maps is unbelievably cool! Technorati Tags: google, wikimapia