This still remains my favorite music video of all time – nowadays they are all junk.
Days Go By
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The Facebook Flea Market, or Why Diversification is the Only Free Lunch
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Facebook applications are awesome – and a good number of developers and agencies have committed to themselves full time to developing applications for themselves and for clients. We all see huge potential for being able to interact with users on such a personal level, so easily. Relying on other services is a big component of this generation of web applications in general. The ability to...
The Last Mile
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This is a bit of a stream of thought, so bear with me. One of the topics that really interests me is the last mile. We have electronic devices that store and deal with pretty much any type of information. Phone numbers, addresses, messages, people, etc. Fridges that keep track of our food, even. But how do they all connect? They don’t. When will all of them communicate? When will, the...
2008 DC Idiotarod
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I can’t believe I missed it!
I Made a Fire Eagle Application
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Late last year I mentioned that Yahoo was coming out with it’s own location management platform. They launched it last week in private beta. At this point – it really is just that, a platform. Very few applications exist. Seth Levine was kind enough to send me an invite. I wrote a quick application using Fire Eagle. Birdwatcher shows recent location updates on a nice pretty map (using...
Craigslist Fun
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I love Craigslist. You see a lot of decent gigs, but there’s also a ton of crap. And every once in a while, someone lashes out. Reply to: gigs-585642542@craigslist.org Date: 2008-02-24, 9:19PM EST Looking for someone to design a new company logo – the logo will be light-infused, modern, edgy, clean, and professional. Please link to examples/portfolio of past artwork done. Offering $80...
Two Great Days
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There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay [via Guru Gilbert]
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Fight the Maryland Tech Tax
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Thanks to Jimmy for pointing this out. Effective July 1, 2008, Maryland’s 6 percent sales tax will apply to computer services, including: Computer facilities management and operation. Custom programming. Computer system planning and design that integrate computer hardware, software, and communication technologies. Computer disaster recovery. Data processing, storage and recovery. Hardware or...
730 Days
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Alex and I have been dating two years today. 🙂
WhyGoSolo Facebook Application
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I made the WhyGoSolo Facebook Application, which just launched. If you join WhyGoSolo, you can have any events you create or sign up for show up on Facebook automatically, so you and your Facebook friends can know what you are up to. We’re planning on adding a lot more functionality to it in the future. Our main focus is bringing what happens on the main site into Facebook. If you...