31 Jul
Heh
Bug Labs, day 2
A few items following up on last night’s Bug Labs piece.
1. As Fred Wilson points out in his post, it’s the polar opposite of the iPhone. He compares it to Ning, but it seems more like an early PC, and the app designer, if it delivers on its promise, as the BASIC [...]
30 Jul
Bug Labs (initial review)
I went to a real interesting dinner tonight in San Francisco, to get introduced to a New York-based startup, Bug Labs, along with Ryan Block of Engadget, Robert Scoble and Jerry Michalski.
We met with their CEO, Peter Semmelhack, and their San Francisco-based consultant, Jeremy Toemann. Dinner was at Le Colonial in [...]
29 Jul
MP3s in Scripting News
Fred Wilson sends a pointer to playtagger.
“Include this tiny javascript in your HTML, and your mp3 links will automatically become playable right on the page.”
Let’s test it!
A Christmas song for Doc
I was reading David Weinberger’s beautiful testimonial to growing older, on the occasion of Doc’s 60th birthday, which is today!
I thought [...]
28 Jul
118,254 RSS feeds
Last week I met with the founders of a young Emeryville company named Persai Research, and they told me about a project to gather a huge collection of feeds.
They just sent me a link to a zip file containing over a hundred thousand feeds.
http://research.persai.com/persai_feedcorpus.zip
And stay tuned to this blog for more [...]
27 Jul
Today’s links
Photos from tonight’s TechCrunch party in Menlo Park.
Apparently some ISPs are inserting ads in web content as their customers surf.
Jason Calacanis: “It makes no sense to me to build inside of someone else’s platform when you have the wide open internet out there to develop on.”
Frank Zappa: “Gotta meet the Gurneys and a dozen [...]
26 Jul
Harry Potter wasn’t for me
But there’s no doubt I’m going to see this movie.
Synopsis: “Homer Simpson must save the world from a catastrophe he himself created.”
Dumb iPhone question
I have 250 or so photos on my iPhone.
I want to copy them onto my MacBook hard disk.
How to?
PS: I did read the manual.
PPS: [...]
25 Jul
Twitter, month 5
Another idea that’s gaining maturity, and therefore perspective, is Twitter. It’s now been almost five months since we fell in love with it. By “we” I mean a handful of people in the tech blogosphere, enough to create a critical mass of people to network with, enough so we can explore what it’s [...]
24 Jul
Today’s links
Wired: “Blogging is not about making friends, it’s about expressing yourself truthfully and in the process providing some hitherto unforeseen insight into an important issue or topic of the day.” Agreed.
Chris Pirillo being tormented by his wife Ponzi.
Uncov meetup in SF, Aug 3 at the Mars Bar.
Andy Ihnatko says he’s not the [...]
23 Jul
Apache on the Mac, day 2
Thanks for all the great advice on configuring Apache on the Mac.
After wading through all the options, many of which included mastering system options that I don’t care about, and have nothing to do with the problem I want to solve, I decided to give MAMP a try, and [...]
21 Jul
Exploring Apache on Mac
In the background I’m learning how to configure Apache on Mac OS X. There are lots of little stumbling blocks that involve penetrating the user interface and getting down to the Unix running underneath. There’s a tiny sliver of Apache showing through the GUI but not enough to do anything interesting.
The first [...]
