Previously I wrote about the need for Web app integration as one of the big, but hard to solve, opportunities of the next generation Internet. Another area closely related to this is one of online identity management. My initial interest related to this area was based on the concept of user fatigue at social networking […]
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Continue reading →Do you know what that means? Well, yes that bunnies were hopping all over the good ‘ol U S of A bringing enough candy and cash to last kids for weeks (what ever happened to real eggs?). But more importantly then that it means that Lent is over. And I can go back to MyYahoo! […]
Continue reading →Do credit cards have digits to represent the month of the year and nearly every web site requires that you select the month by its proper name? Is it a fruad detection test to see if you are smart enough to do a conversion and thus worthy of a credit card? Some people even think […]
Continue reading →{rant} I have written before about my woes with Technorati. Scott told me about a blog post I was mentioned in so I decided to seek it out. No result on blogsearch.google so I headed over to IceRocket and then Technorati. They both had the reference. Well this got me to futzing around on Technorati. […]
Continue reading →I stumbled upon a word document on my hard drive today doing a search. These were written by Evan Willams of Obvious. Good stuff, he deserves all the credit for it. #1: Be Narrow Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do […]
Continue reading →I have been interested in the concept of digital lifestyle aggregation (DLA) for some time. My most recent pain surrounding this had to do with the launch of a web site promoting our condo in Rosemary Beach, Florida. In conjunction with this we also listed the condo on a few of the online rental web […]
Continue reading →Trying to think of a nice little SLA (that would be seven letter acronym) to designate the big seven of the consumer Internet world. Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Amazon, Fox Interactive, IAC, and Google. Yah Ma Fig seems to work a little bit better than Gamma Phi (GAMAFIY) At the moment it only means something in […]
Continue reading →Yaplet is a nice Ajax browser side app created by some Tech students. Yaplet allows you to chat with others that are viewing the same Web page. Here is a nice demo. Reminds me a little of SideTalk, where I served on the advisory board. Contrary to what I have been told, Tech does do […]
Continue reading →Embrace, extend and extinguish is the term introduced during the Microsoft anti-trust case to describe Microsoft’s generic strategy. Must be a pretty good strategy. Seems to me that Google is at least implementing the embrace and extend part. For those that did not hear, last week Vincent Dureau, the person in charge of television technology […]
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