• From the Classroom: Phone as Platform: Lessons from ITP

    Posted on March 16, 2005

    The talk that Clay gave mentioned the hackability of cell phones as a platform. Good to hear in an environment like this. Having Python released is a step in the right direction, but I think for the most part people just laugh still when I talk about lowering the barrier... [Read More]

  • Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia

    Posted on March 16, 2005

    ETech talk from the founder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia addresses the original dream of the internet: people sharing information. The early services worked well for a while. There were some problems though: [Read More]

  • Cory Doctorow

    Posted on March 16, 2005

    Down at Etech right now, Cory says that the notes from his talk are going to be up online after the conf. He’s talking about how creating an alternative email system that cuts out the abuses would ruin a lot of the applications built on and around email. But there... [Read More]

  • ETech Ho!!!!

    Posted on March 15, 2005

    I’m heading down to ETech tomorrow for the day. I wanted to go to SXSW but didn’t get a chance to, and hadn’t made plans for ETech cause it seemed like things were too busy. But then Russ decided to go down just for the day, and said “Come on!... [Read More]

  • Two RSS Articles at Small Business Trends

    Posted on March 14, 2005

    Two great bits of info about RSS over at Small Bussiness Trends: RSS and Marketing and Is 2005 the Year of RSS? I’m a big aggregator fan. Without my feedreader I would have a much harder time pulling together and sorting through the information I want. But I’m a geek,... [Read More]

  • Kraus Posts the JotSpot Long Tail Presentation

    Posted on March 14, 2005

    I went to see a presentation at SDForum’s Emerging Technology SIG just a little while after JotSpot launched. Joe Kraus spoke about the long tail of software development, and how trends like situated software pointed to there being room for lots of small applications with small groups of users. He... [Read More]

  • Paul Graham on Startups

    Posted on March 13, 2005

    I really enjoyed reading Paul Graham’s take on running a startup. It seems like almost everything I read online these days is either relatively short or I just don’t finish it. The stuff that Paul Graham writes tends to keep my attention all the way through however. Do I agree... [Read More]