Zvi Band

Category: Tech

  • Thoughts on Twitter, One Week In

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    I’ve been using Twitter for a week now. Here’s my account. I held off on joining it for so long because I thought it was the same as IM. It has the same interface (short text messages), but is completely different. The API opens up a lot of possibilities. Plus it’s a free SMS gateway.…

  • Communication Overload

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    Wave by wave, technology has brought us amazing advancements. Problem is, they don’t replace each other, they are cumulative. People still have records, 8-tracks, tapes, CDs, minidiscs*, 8mm reels, VHS tapes, DVDs… All are recently or long obsolete, but still technically operational, and therefore used. The same happens with communication, particularly recently. Not only do…

  • Google Might Want To Recrawl This…

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    Since Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, everything you are viewing is merely reflects a moment in time. You can come back a day later and it’ll be different. While I was doing some searching for the previous blog post, I came across this little gem for the wikipedia entry on Intrapreneurship. Click here to…

  • 10 Worst states for starting a business… guess who is number 1

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    Not exactly a positive mark for Washington DC. Powered by ScribeFire.

  • Yay Metro Times!

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    One of my friends pointed out to me that a search for dc metro times on Google shows my lil’ web app in third place. Nice! Peter of iStrategyLabs recommended that I get it it’s own domain name, no more piggybacking off skeevisarts.com (which I redesigned by the way, check it out!!) and see what…

  • Entrepreneurship in the DC Area

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    I had been planning on writing my thoughts on this for a while, but spurred on by the announcement of a local tech incubator launching in the coming months, I felt it was time to write something. Tech entrepreneurs, who dedicate so much of their lives to connecting people regardless of geographic location, still rely…

  • FireEagle and thoughts on location sharing.

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    Justin posted the other day about social objects, particular aspects of us (pictures, bookmarks, status, etc…) that can be shared with other people. I was going to write a post about how my “killer” social object would be location. I ended up scrapping it, but given Yahoo’s announcement of FireEagle, a platform for personal geographic…

  • OpenSocial, Or Not

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    Google released a set of standards called OpenSocial, which will allow developers to, instead of writing, say, a Facebook application which only works on Facebook, an application that will work on any social network that supports OpenSocial (which a lot of the other social networks other than Facebook/MySpace do). It’s not the open social network.…

  • The Creativity Sinkhole

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    I’m a technical person, a hacker. I happen to also be a pretty good designer, at the same time. While they both are weaved together so often, they often form a bizarre dichotomy. Spending a good chunk of my high school and college years learning to be a pretty programmer/scientist, I was taught from the…

  • Mozilla Lighting Updated

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    Fired up Mozilla Thunderbird this morning, to find an update for Mozilla Lightning, the calendar plug-in for their e-mail client. I had installed it before and absolutely hated it mainly because of the crappy/ugly interface. The new interface, however, is really slick. Thanks open source!