• Bringing Great Open Source Ideas to Market

    Posted on January 20, 2005

    I went to a presentation at Stanford VLAB titled “Bringing Great Open Source Ideas to Market” earlier this week. There were some interesting comments made, and I’ll get some of those down here. First I want to mention the overall message however: “2005 will be the breakout year for open... [Read More]

  • New Wordpress Install

    Posted on January 19, 2005

    I upgraded my Wordpress install today. I’ve been getting a ton of comment spam, and instead of hacking my aging install to deal with it I want to hack a new install. Wordpress has served me really well, and I love the features, so instead of being a punter and... [Read More]

  • Steve Case at the Computer History Museum

    Posted on January 13, 2005

    I went to see Steve Case give an interview at the Computer History Museum tonight. It was actually kinda boring, but some points were made. Here are some notes from me, heavily editorialized by me, only vaguely based on what they were talking about on stage. [Read More]

  • Flickr Uploads Working from the 6600

    Posted on January 12, 2005

    I was having trouble uploading to both Flickr and Buzznet, so I thought maybe something really funky had happened to my phone. But I emailed Flickr and Buzznet both anyway, and now Flickr has responded saying they fixed a bug in their code. Behold, it works!! That was really odd,... [Read More]

  • iShouldn't Even Bother

    Posted on January 12, 2005

    As Elle has already mentioned, we were less than impressed with the ease of use and fluid experience that is the crippled MP3 player called the iPod Shuffle. Everything about this device seems to scream out “access denied”. They should have a little loop of Job trying to escape the... [Read More]

  • VJ / AV Battles

    Posted on January 12, 2005

    There’s an interesting event up in San Francisco Thursday night. Dimension7 is hosting a VJ Battle. The event starts at 9:30, and they’re going to be using SMS based voting to determine the winner. I wasn’t able to go to the last event they did, this one I’m definitely not... [Read More]

  • RSS Subscription Synchronicity

    Posted on January 11, 2005

    Apparently Dave Winer has been thinking about the same problem I was in terms of RSS subscriptions. I’m in favor of something a little simpler than what he described, but I can certainly see value in what he’s talking about. I emailed Dave to see if we could start trying... [Read More]

  • RSS Subscription Service Network

    Posted on January 9, 2005

    It seems like one of the major complaints that I hear most often about RSS is that it’s hard to use. Finding the XML link if there is one, choosing from multiple if there are different options, cutting and pasting the link, knowing where to put it, and dealing with... [Read More]

  • Welcome Michael Fagan

    Posted on January 8, 2005

    Michael Fagan, author of FaganFinder.com, is going to be working at Feedster for the next few months. His site is a well respected web search tool. He’s been out there interacting with people. Tweeking, tuning, and expanding his site. We’re hoping he can teach us some of the lessons he’s... [Read More]

  • Feedster and Technorati

    Posted on January 8, 2005

    One of the questions I’ve been asked by a number of people since joining Feedster is “Are Technorati and Feedster competitors?” (or “Is there a difference between Feedster and Technorati?” or something along those lines). I was going to write up something to explain my take, but it looks like... [Read More]