In my last post, I decided to give a “state of the blog” because a lot of things have been happening. This morning I was going through my feeds in Google Reader and realized a lot had changed, even in my reading habits. This has all happened in the past 6 months or so as… Read More Lessons Forced on Me by Life and Early Adoption
Well, it has been an interesting few months of blogging. Like any blog, things started slowly and I wondered if anyone was reading what I wrote. Some days I still wonder about that, but I definitely have more subscribers and traffic now than I did six months ago. More importantly, a lot of things have… Read More Snowballs in Summertime and the Grand Effect
Security in web applications always seems to be an addition that the engineers will “get to later”. Sure they all have a secure login and password, but something like OpenID or a way to integrate with third party applications definitely comes in the later stages. This was evident with popular microblogging site Twitter. However, we… Read More Web Application Integration With OAuth
Image via Wikipedia Every day, you will see someone complaining about the noise on FriendFeed. Typically, the user will talk about how they are going to trim the subscriptions. Contrary to what some people say, this is probably a good idea, not only on FriendFeed but everywhere there are social subscriptions. If you begin to… Read More Size Does Not Matter, It is How You Use It
Yes, it is that time again, I have another guest post on LouisGray.com! Basically, many early adopters read TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and Mashable for much of their tech news. A post was shared on FriendFeed where the blogger was complaining because nothing exciting was going on in technology, only Google and iPhone stories. Given that this… Read More Yet Another Guest Post: What News Are You Reading?
Sometimes I wonder whether people have forgotten why we do what we do. Most people who blog do it because they have a passion for what they are writing about. Many people creating these fancy Web 2.0 sites are doing it because there is some passion for what they are doing. Even “how to be… Read More Passion, Early Adopters and the Mainstream
Fairly soon you will all be tired of hearing “Hey I have another guest post!” But, for now you have to keep hearing it. I have another guest post over at LouisGray.com talking about Federated Microblogging. To give you an idea of what I am talking about, here is a short summary. People are leaving… Read More Federated Microblogging at LouisGray.com
The past few weeks have seen the release of Google Lively and Electric Sheep Company’s WebFlock. 3D environments have been around for years, with the initial attempts using VRML, an HTML like markup language. VRML was an interesting idea but had problems because the computers and typical network speeds for users made the environments too… Read More Are 3D Worlds Useful Yet?
If you read this blog regularly, it probably means you are involved in social media and most likely an early adopter. If not, then you are probably just a hardcore geek looking for a geek fix. Given that this is my audience, I am going to tell you why the possible/probable acquisition of Digg by… Read More The Google Digg Purchase Would Mean Nothing to You.
I have been really busy lately, but it is a good busy. I was contacted earlier this week by Louis Gray to write a guest post on his blog. WOW. For those of you who read this blog and do not know who he is, Louis Gray is one of the hottest “non A-List’ blogs… Read More Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me!
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