Open Source or Closed Source?
Alan Shimel has a good post on a recent release of a formerly “open source” product called Nessus. With the version 3.0 release, the authors abandoned the GPL license and
Technology
Outlook Map Display
In the category of “duh – that’s been there for a while”, I got a nice tip from TheOfficeWeblog about Outlook’s ability to automatically generate a map from an address.&n
Shared Nothing Architecture
On the heals of TypePad’s 18 hour outage this week, there’s been (and will be) a lot of continued discussion about how to build scalable and reliable online / web-based
Egopedia
I’ve received a variety of entertaining (and thoughtful) presents for my 40th birthday. Earlier this week, Dave Jilk gave me another one – my own Wikipedia entry. I suppose eve
The Signal to Noise Ratio Feels Out of Whack To Me
I monitor around 400 blogs and try to stay on top of them daily (I use FeedDemon and NewsGator Online and have developed an awesome personal algorithm for getting through
It Ought To Be Easier
Lyle Lovett’s “It Ought To Be Easier” was the 195th song on Amy’s iPod Shuffle playlist that I manually recreated for her this morning. Someone at Apple on the iPod
The Web Is Not A Normalized Relational Database
I had lunch with Stan James on Friday at Pasquini’s Pizzeria. Stan is the creator of Outfoxed and was introduced to me by Seth Goldstein who is one of the
User Agents
I woke up this morning thinking about User Agents (ok – I was also thinking about Naomi Watts and Sean Penn who were amazing in 21 Grams.) A commenter on
del.icio.us Tags – The First Derivative of What I'm Thinking About
I was in an Oxlo board meeting recently and Todd Vernon (Raindance CTO who is on the Oxlo board) said “I’ve subscribed to your del.icio.us tag feed – I like it
Personalized Feeds
As an investor in a number of companies that do stuff with RSS (NewsGator, FeedBurner, Technorati, and Judy’s Book) and fan and active user of others (e.g. del.icio.us, FeedBlitz, SixApart)