All my blog posts and articles
An interesting post by Cringely, forseeing the imminent demise of most 350 social networks. This quote, only tangentially relevant is good, but you should read the whole post from [I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS](http://www.pbs.o...
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Check out this funny post from The Dilbert Blog: > A reader sent me a link to a story about a Japanese woman who was accused of kicking a hole in some guy’s door, crawling through the hole, and destroying his property. She was acquitted when the court realized that her breasts were too big to allow her to fit through the hole. (from: Right Up My Alley)
First it was Facebook, then (I think) it was Plaxo, then LinkedIn, and now MyBlogLog is offering me a way to publicize all the fascinating stuff I do on other sites. I dunno, there must be 100 other ones that d...
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Another really interesting post from TSA Blog: Evolution of Security: (which should be called ‘The TSA Blog’! ** "Behavior analysis is based on the fear of being discovered**. People...
Read more →Brad Feld, famous Venture Capitalist writes an interesting post about how he might get to the point of telling an entrepreneur “we are passing” in this post from Feld Thoughts: > “We...
Read more →Joining the ranks of the growing number of news aggregation and research sites is Silobreaker, which I first met at Demo 2008. Two things catch my interest with Silobreaker – try it by [clicking here for a search on the topic ‘Google’](http://www.silobreaker.co...
Read more →Here’s a new online light weight database product that picks up where QuickBase leaves off and goes crazy. It’s called blist. It has a far snazzier (and more complicated) user interface than Quickbase. ...
Read more →Do you get fund raising / spam phone calls from very persistent, insistent callers asking for money to ‘Support our Veterans’? I’ve gotten them more than once, and have even donated. For some reason it has stuck me that these particular calls were unusual in the high-pressure tactics they used. So I...
Read more →I came across this note that the fairly famous spat between Apple Gossip site Think Secret and Apple Inc. has been settled: > “We understand that Nick Ciarelli, the journalist who ran Think Secret, is “very satisfied” with the settlement. While it is sad that Think Secret will be closing its doors, since it was a valuable news source, Ciarelli is now free to move on to other things…[snip…]” from Electronic Frontier Foundation It’s too bad. Think Secret was a valuable resource. I wonder where Nick will turn up next.
In the context of the current Wall Street excitement, I received a letter of assurance from a mutual fund manager saying, among other things: > “Dear Investors, * While the recent downdraft in worldwide equity markets may be unsettling, there is a great deal in our investments to engender optim...
Read more →Chris Herot writes about a new product called RulesBase: Check out this post from Christopher Herot’s Weblog: > “I had a visit yesterday from Steven Ginzberg and Jack Schatz of [Gray Box Software](http://ww...
Read more →Several products I’ve worked on recently have relied on Amazon’s really impressive web services. I’ve written before about how much I admire services such as S3 and EC2, solid, commercial quality infrastructure services. They address (and? or? solve) a big...
Read more →Yesterday the New York Times had an interesting article about our expectation that software (and web sites and web applications) all should be free. I’ve written about this before so I won’t ...
Read more →Take a look at SiloBreaker (don’t ask me why it’s called that; is it supposed to break down silos?) Try typing something into the search box, say “Pakistan”. You will see that it identifies it as a country (it would also identify companies, people, and who knows what else.) Right off that’s interesting, right? Scroll down and in the right margin you see boxes with some rather unique perspectives: maps, article volumes, concept network, hotspots, trends, quotes, and lots of semi structured analysis. It’s a hard site to describe but looks like a unique and useful research tool.
I just looked through my friend list and I see some people who’s name I recognize but don’t know exactly the context where I knew them from, and then there are mysteriously who I really don’t think I’ve ever known, so I can’t remember how they got there. I was discussing with some people at the party how we are going to soon have a new word to distinguish a ‘real’ friend from a ‘facebook’ (or other social network) friend, as well as a term to distinguish a ‘real’ social network from one on the computer. See one of my favorite new terms, Retronym).
You can read all about the potential acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, here for example, where Marc Andreessen writes: > “I think that a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would have practically no impact on any high-quality Silicon Valley startup.” (from [Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger](http://...
Read more →This is a dramatic and well told story of one patient’s patient search for a kidney donor. Also notable is that the donor turns out to be a pretty well known blogospherian, Virginia Postrel. And that she, as far as I can tell, has not really talked about this touching and generous act herself.
Huh? Don’t know who Mr. Spock is? Don’t know about the Vulcan greeting? Please! How dare you to be reading this blog! Anyway for the other 99.999% of you, here’s Mr. Spock’s great revelation!
I was going to wait until I had read each of these great articles that all won the “Sidney Awards” but this post was getting stale. And then [part two of the Sidney awards](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/opini...
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