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Here I go again, picking a out quote from a blogger who I really likeand dissecting it. I don’t know, maybe I am cranky. Robert Scoble, of Microsoft and Scobelizer fame, [reports on a conversation he had with Kim Polese](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/15.html...
Read more →Hey, this is really cool. BlogBridge made a “Top 10 Java Web Start Apps” list. I ran across it on “Cardsharp on Software”, a blog written by Kurt Williams. “7. BlogBridge. Wicked cool RSS Client” That alone led to lots of downloads and hits on the site. And then it got picked up by Java Desktop as a Featured Blog, which led to even more traction. Wicked cool, as they say!
A very interesting piece about how people are beginning to use Instant Messaging instead of email. It’s quite counterintuitive, but it does seem to correlate in one particular college studen...
Read more →Everyone wants to give me a toolbar! I’ve successfully fought back Yahoo’s and am a happy user of Google’s Toolbar. Now A9 has a toolbar too. Have you checked out A9? It’s Amazon’s Search Service. What does Amazon want wi...
Read more →There’s a site called IT Conversations that has a collection of interviews, recorded on mp3s with some very interesting people. Also included are lectures, debates and panels. It is an excellent site, I recommend it. For a while now, I’ve been, manually, do...
Read more →No, not Eastern Daylight Time, the Swing Event Dispatch Thread. Duh. If the abbreviation EDT doesn’t send shivers up your spine you’re not really a Java Geek. Or maybe you are an uber-geek. Anyway, I came across this clear and short articleexplaining the big traps and how to avoid them. It is the SPIN project which implements a way-esoteric-PhD-level technique to make it easier to work with the EDT.
Here’s a really cool idea (via Boing Boing– see their story) – Creating a web site, identical to an existing one, except that certain words have been changed to links. A very powerful idea. [Read the art...
Read more →We just got a totally cool new BlogBridge feature working, which actually was suggested by a user a few months ago: keyword highlighting. It’s quite simple: The user supplies a set of keywords they care about (in my case: “Bush Kerry Microsoft eRoom Curacao and Pito”) In turn, whenever blogs a...
Read more →Here’s a cool idea: using the web services of Google and Technorati together to find other, related blogs. Here’s the idea: One of the things I am trying to do with BlogBridgeis to help users discover new blogs that they would be interested in. **Let’s s...
Read more →I’ve written about this before, I think, but I am once again pleasantly amazed by Google. I momentarily blanked out on the name of the ‘other’ conservative blogger – other than Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) that is. So I asked Google, what sites are related to Instapundit? And here’s what it says. Number 2 on the list: Andrew Sullivan. Yup, right answer! Cool or what?
You know I am a fan of the cool little Mars Rovers. Here’s an interesting little bit from Nasa: “Mars Orbiter Sees Rover Tracks Among Thousands of New Images NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovativ...
Read more →We are looking for a few people who would be willing to give verbal feedback on BlogBridge usability. I think it would take at most 1/2 hour of your time, and you’d have a chance to have a very direct impact on the direction of the product. Please call Pito or email me at pitoatblogbridge.com and I will fill you in. When we have T-Shirts, you will get one, gratis!
BlogBridge is going “Great Guns” as I told my friend David in answer to “What’s going on with BlogBridge?” Well I don’t really know what the heck that means except that I am pumped to see the progress we’ve been making. More and more every day. And now there’s a way for you to see it too! We...
Read more →Ok, guys, we have another beta release with lots of great new goodies! It will be up on the web site tomorrow hopefully. It sports lots of new features, which I will be describing when I have some more time to do it. For now, please go to the BlogBridge web site and look around. Some links of intere...
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I am often asked what’s so special about blogging. I always answer, technically it’s pretty simple, so that’s not it. It’s that there are people in the world, who for their own reasons have chosen to write down their thoughts and opinion. I learn things that I would never have learned otherw...
Read more →I came across a fascinating article,a transcript of a speech by Christopher Alexander, architect and author of “A Pattern Language.” Alexander is the guy who invented Patterns as they have now been broadly adopted by the Software ...
Read more →Here’s an interesting link that continues on the theme from my previous post on Agent Based Modeling. This isn’t agent based, but it is kind of the most auspicious use of simulation one could imagine: “Computing the Cosmos. One of the biggest computer simulations ever run is illuminating the deepest mysteries of the universe.”
And now for something completely different. I was reading this book: “It’s Alive” over the weekend. Particularly of interest to me was all the discussion about so-called “Agent Based Modeling.” Agent based model...
Read more →Here are two very interesting posts on the question of Feed Readers: Glassdog asks “What’s wrong with Feed Readers” Rasterweb talks about “More aggregator maddness” Info Freako This is of more than passing interest to me of course, as it relates to the design ofmy Blog Reader: BlogBridge. Some of the ideas mentioned here are already planned for BlogBridge, but there are lots of good tidbits to insipre further work!