April 11, 2008 – 12:00 am
A thought struck me yesterday as I was toying with drop.io. Terms like cellular, mobile, and web 2.0 are slowly going to fade. The key to new social media is transparency. Usability is going to be a barrier to overcome so that the user doesn’t feel like they are taking a series of steps on [...]
April 10, 2008 – 8:40 am
Last week Google announced it’s AppEngine. It took a couple of days and a conversation with a friend to realize some of the potential for this service.
Google’s AppEngine service is a framework for developing web-based applications. Google provides free hosting for anything built with it. Right now Python is the only supported language, but Ruby [...]
April 9, 2008 – 9:07 am
I’ve previously commented that mobile technology is the next frontier in the technology sphere. It seems that Mike Arrington at TechCrunch agrees. Look for the next tech boom to be in mobile technology. It’s going to connect us in ways we never dreamed possible.
In the mid nineties when what we know as the web was [...]
April 7, 2008 – 12:00 am
Radiohead does it again. By now you’ve probably heard that Radiohead is offering the raw tracks of their “Nude” single for remixing. A few years ago this sort of thing would not have been possible, but with advent of GarageBand and other free and low-cost digital audio suites, thousands of people can participate and engage [...]
April 3, 2008 – 12:00 am
Cell phones are quickly becoming the new frontier in emerging technology. I’m told that smart phone adoption rates are much higher in Japan and Europe. Here in the U.S., things are just heating up. Yesterday Amazon.com announced TextBuyIt, a service that will allow you to compare prices by sending a text message. Amazon sends a [...]
April 2, 2008 – 12:00 am
Wordpress 1.x was the first CMS to get me to move away from my old home-brewed CMS I used to use for blogging. Yesterday I upgraded this blog to Worpress 2.5. Even though you can’t see it, the admin area has a whole new look and support for audio and video in posts. I’m going [...]
April 1, 2008 – 12:00 am
Last Friday James Lileks published a column in the Star Tribune called “Godless Death or Sensible Joy Spirals.” I realize that this is meant to be a humorous piece, but it got me thinking: What is the purpose of publishing such innocuous content in the newspaper? I mean, why waste the column inches?
Then I thought [...]
March 31, 2008 – 12:00 am
Columnist Don Reisinger at ITworld.com posits that we will one day look with disdain at current good guys Apple and Google. Reisinger’s argument goes like this: Apple and Google are perceived as “good guys” right now. Microsoft, now perceived as an “evil empire” was once perceived as the good guy. Therefore Apple and Google will [...]
