Archives for the 'web20' Category
tripit, my favorite startup
I twittered about tripit after using their service the other day but 140 characters wasn’t quite enough for me to write out the reasons I like them. They’re my favorite startup right now because they do a really great job of solving a particular pain that I have had.
Tripit is an online tool [...]
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 [...]
