BurningbirdDave Rogers: I’m somewhat chagrined to note that I’ve imbibed the Facebook Kool-Aid™. What has tipped the balance for me is the iPhone application, and the fact that many of my “meat-space” friends are on Facebook. If you’re a regular reader and are also on Facebook, look me up as David Michael Rogers. (I was […]
I agree with Jeffrey Zeldman in that I’m also surprised that George Oates was laid off from Yahoo and her work with Flickr. I also thought that George’s recounting of how she found out she was laid off was telling, and sad. Once upon a time, Yahoo was the bright and shiny future. Once upon a time, Flickr was […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Eureka is a popular science fiction show currently showing on the Sci-Fi channel, on Hulu, as well as downloadable from Unbox, and iTunes in beautiful, and expensive, HD. Now in its third year, the show was faced with an interesting challenge at the beginning of the season development: this season’s […]
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted,” the great car making pioneer Henry Ford once said, “they would have said a faster horse.” Kevin Gamble points to Twitter’s recent decision to cut outgoing SMS for UK clients: On Wednesday, we announced that Twitter has suspended outgoing SMS to our UK number. The blue in the chart […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the […]