Archives for the 'web20' Category
Google App Engine
I’ve really been enjoying messing around with ruby and rails lately and all the new side projects I’ve been tackling are written in ruby. Trouble is, I can’t actually launch any of them on the hosting provider that I use, hostgo (not strongly recommended; look elsewhere), because they don’t let me run rails or […]
Bobby Fischer, dead at 64
Bobby Fischer died today. What an interesting iconoclast.
A related side note: For the past week, Choire Sicha (pronunciation mp3), formerly of Gawker, has been guest-blogging for kottke.org all this week. Jason did this before, and both times I’ve found it interesting how the particular interests of the guest blogger take the blog […]
YouFamous; Not Original or Quick Enough
I just came up with the term YouFamous to describe people that become famous via, and whose fame is primarily limited to, the YouTube viewing audience. Turns out there are already a few matches on Google for the term, although I only count three in their first page of results, and a search on […]
Photoblogger
I’m now a photoblogger. At work this morning we were talking about web2.0 sites, community participation, and so on, and we looked a bit at flickr’s upload tools. I’ve been getting nudged for awhile to start posting more photos to my blog, so I took about 10 minutes to set up Flickr’s upload-by-email […]
Comparisons of Web Company Headquarters
I was at Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Facebook HQs last week. I got much more thorough tours of Google and Facebook than the other two, so my impressions were skewed toward the superficial. Here are some notes:
The campuses:
Google’s campus felt the most college campus-like. My first impression was at sunset, when I was […]
