Magic Links
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...
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October 2004
September 2004
Find what you care about with BlogBridge
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 →Web Services gone wild
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 →Why Google is great
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?
Mars Rover tracks seen from space
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 →BlogBridge Usability Victims
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 releases coming fast and furious
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 →BlogBridge Beta 4: Sept 15, 2004
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...
Read more →Sept 11, 2001
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Why Blogs are great, #102
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 →Patterns from the master
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 →Simulation is hot!
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.”
Agent Based Modeling
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 →August 2004
What’s wrong with Feed Readers?
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!
A new term: Blobjects
A very thought provoking speech by Bruce Sterling at SigGraph 2004. Recommended. “When you shop for Amazon, you’re already adding value to everything you look at on an Amazon screen. You don’t get paid for it, but your shopping is unpaid work for them. Imagine this blown to huge proportions and attached to all your physical possessions. Whenever you use a spime, you’re rubbing up against everybody else who has that same kind of spime. A spime is a users group first, and a physical object second.”
BlogBridge Starz!
Finally. Ever since we started working on BlogBridge, I’ve been talking about helping a user slice and dice and sort through a ton of blogs and other channels, finding the good from the bad, the interesting from the boring. Remember the catch phrase “… *the ability ...
Read more →eBay to assist in setting BlogBridge Price
So, some day we will consider BlogBridgecomplete enough to actually be worth a few bucks. But the question is, how much? I’ve said many times, that even if every single cool idea I have is perfectly realized that the most one could expect is maybe $20 or $30 per...
Read more →This Is Rumor Control
This is a really interesting new sitewhere the posters, apparently well informed folks in the intelligence, defense and state communitycomment on what’s going on in the world. (Then again, it could be a 16 year old in Argentina.) They also have a sense of humor: 
XP SP2 Shows Why Microsoft Is A Great Company
I’ve said (and believe) that there’s no other company on earth that has the capability to develop, debug, beta test, deliver software on a massive scale like Microsoft. The number of configurations (both legal and illegal) of hardware, system sofyware, application software, languages, etc that ...
Read more →XP SP2 Makes a Hash Of It
As you know, I am quite impressed with Microsoft’s ability to build and ship and deploy and sell and support software at an absolutely mass scale. Yet, on my second XP SP2 installation, it totally destroyed and hosed my computer. It took a superhuman effort (with...
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