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We’ve been experimenting with a switcharoo of the BlogBridge web site – a major overhaul conceived and prototyped by Francois. (Thanks!) The new site will be going to production tomorrow, but you get to take a look while we are p...
Read more →I just saw references to these two books. I am putting them on my reading list. - Rebuilt: How becoming part computer made me more human – Michael Chorost. - Is Bill Cosny Right? – Michael Eric Dyson Technorati Tags: book
Just add this one to your reading list: > “(XP) challenges many of the common assumptions about software development. Of these one of the most controversial is its rejection of significant effort in up-front design, in favor of a more evolutio...
Read more →Another neat link I was shown: > “Ever since I was a wee programmer, I’ve been reminded that good code has a lot of comments. After all, code will be read many more times than it will be written. ” (from “Write Sweet-smelling Comments“) Technorati Tags: programming
I just came off listening to Dan Bricklin’s first podcast, an interview with Linda Hamel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts about patents, intellectual property and open source. Quite interesting info. I am looking...
Read more →What system is this from? 
I love it too, but this is ridiculous! Technorati Tags: funny, technical, UI
This can’t be good: Google closed at $288 today. John Batelle’s search blog is quoting someone as saying it will hit $300 I say, short the puppy, big time! Technorati Tags: google
Interesting article about counting blogs makes a good point right off the bat: > “First, let’s step back and consider why we’re counting blogs at all. You no longer see articles that attempt to demonstrate the legitimacy of the Web by stating how many Web pages there are. But blogs are still in the process of entering mainstream consciousness, so numerical credibility is important; bloggers themselves cite the statistics a lot.” (from Wall Street Journal Online) Technorati Tags: blog
I love my Mac, as y’all know. I was amused to read about Intel CEO Paul Otellini who publicly recommended getting a Mac. He was being interviewed by Walt Mossberg at the “D” conference: > ‘… Asked whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security...
Read more →Not that I’m an expert or anything… In the last few days there have been several articles about the problems in High Tech Venture Capital. One particularly interesting one was in the New York Times on Sunday talked about the exodus of recently minted venture capitalists from the busines...
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I Just came back from seeing ‘Falsettos‘, an unusual (and unusually good) musical, at the Huntington Theatre, in Boston. The themes cover the gamut from family, children, love, judaism, homosexuality, life and death. The music is unusual and complex and very nice. I recommend it highly. So much that I also just got the music from iTunes! Technorati Tags: music, recommended
Check out Synergy: > “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” Cool! Technorati Tags: interesting
The latest weekly build has been posted, BlogBridge 1.6. Check it out! There are lots of bug fixes but the major new functionality is Phase 1 of SmartFeeds. Read our blog for more details, and download it here. Technorati Tags: blogbridge, RSS
Nothing to add: > “Not only will you be able to subscribe to whatever podcast you would like using iTunes, but producers will be able to submit their podcasts for inclusion in the iTunes Music Store so that people can find them” (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) Technorati Tags: mac, podcast, itunes
Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade has a really interesting report on something that I didn’t even know was going on in Boston. Apparently they/we are thinking about providing wi-fi access across the c...
Read more →Just a quick note of the very nice mention of BlogBridge by almost-famous Dowbrigade blog by the incredibly prolific Michael Feldman. > (Emphasis mine, throughout) Blog Bridge is the amazing new RSS reader and aggregator from Pito Salas. Sure, it m...
Read more →One of the cool things about BlogBridge’s (free) companion service, is that keeps track for you what you have and have not read, *even if you are using BlogBridge on more than one computer! * In other words, please sign up for the service, and set your synchronization options the way you want them ...
Read more →Just an amusing little bit from the Wall Street Journal about the Toyota Prius: > “Some buyers of Toyota MotorCorp.’s Prius gas-electric hybrid cars are complaining that their vehicles are stalling or shutting down at highway-driving speeds, a problem Toyota attributes to software problems in th...
Read more →Welcome back Chris Lydon! Those of you who have lived in the Boston area for a while (and who are NPR listeners) will recognize the name. Chris has been on local and national TV and radio, and a couple of years ago did some really early, innovative p...
Read more →Check out the BlogBridge blog and site for the latest weekly release. Technorati Tags: blogbridge