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Just Shelley

Many Moving Parts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I don’t get the web on my cell phone. Personally I don’t like to take calls on my cell phone when I’m out and about. I carry it with me more for telling me what time it is (I don’t wear a watch) and emergencies, as in: “Help, I’m trapped […]

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Diversity

Irony

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh god, please, won’t someone notice the irony of this post, and the accolades heaped on this white boy? I can’t be the only human being on this planet who sees this as absolute proof of everything we’ve been saying for years about the invisibility of women. I am silenced. I have nothing more […]

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Diversity

Focusing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]

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Web

Web 1.0 must die

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think Web 2.0 is killing Web 1.0. I think there’s a ‘young eating their parent’ thing going on. Amazon has been using its resources to put out S3 and the new video service at the same time that the company’s bread & butter online store seems to be taking […]

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Web

And the young eats itself

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Liz Gannes at GigaOM writes a story on Evan Williams and Odeo, and Williams confession at the recent Web Apps of the Future yak fest. Williams talks about how he royally screwed up with his startup, Odeo, burning through it sounds like millions, hiring a staff of 14, all to build […]