OK.
You want to be cool. You want to be an entrepreneur. And you want to start a shiny new web 2.0 company. Here’s an idea for you:
You 2.0. Or myspy.
I can’t decide which name I like better. But here’s the idea in four words: persistent painless personal history.
Got that?
The idea’s free. If you […]

Congratulations Rastin Mehr on being named a project mentor for Joomla’s entrants in the Google Summer of Code.
Rastin is a good friend and colleague, and will be a great mentor.

While I was doing some education/technology research today, I ran across a tutorial for Finding Information on the Internet.
9 major sections, 5-6 subsections, and a whole page of “things you need to know before starting.”
I find it incredibly how educators can be so incredibly … ummm … how can I say “stupid” nicely? They […]

John Gruber at Daring Fireball is taking the plunge: testing out the blogging-is-my-job waters. As I was reading about that, I happened to click on his colophon, to read these delightful words:

If Daring Fireball looks like shit in your browser, you’re using a shitty browser that doesn’t support web standards. Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer […]

This is a test of Sidewalk. Sidewalk lets you create web forms very, very simply, and stick them on your website without any application development whatsoever - and very little technical ability or knowledge at all.
Here’s my first test … tell me something that’s cool:
Please fill out our form.
The best thing about this is […]

Ummm … I’m a little confused by this one.
I ran over to Plaxo, a company that synchronizes contact data between you, your various devices, your friends, and anyone you want. Mostly because I saw this post which says, basically, that they suck.
Checking out their products, they offer a free service, but if you upgrade you […]

It never changes, does it?
I’ll scratch your back, if you scratch mine.
Today, Microsoft basically purchased the privilege that it received a week or so ago: getting pre-installed on all of Lenovo computers made and sold in China. It’s a realpolitik manoevre that Microsoft basically had to make: buying $700 million of hardware in order to […]

How do you know it’s 2006?
I received an invite to a marketing webcast from the American Marketing Association today.
Halfway through the first paragraph:
Traditional communication methods such as mail, email and a generic “dot com” website experience are simply not working.

Wow. Innovative to traditional in less than a decade.
I think a lot of small, innovative web […]

From Plastic Bag:

“To make money by appealing to the stupid human instinct to collect dumb things.”

Check the whole post for more …

OK. Here we go again.
I’ve just started a new project. Some details will come out over the next month or so as it goes public.
It’ll be basically an independent start-up business. I’ll be doing it with some minimal help, but essentially by myself. And here are my guiding principles.
(Subject to change, of course, like […]