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If you live in the Boston area and are in the tech business you should check out the more or less monthly Web Innovators gathering sometimes referred to in shorthand as WebInno. Here is the WebInnot blog and here is the [WebInno registration page](...
Read more →I am just finished reading Devil In The White City by Erik Larson. Loved it! This news item about the first archaeological dig at the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition caught my eye because that is what the book is about (also about a serial murderer, but that’s something else again.) I am only part way through the book but it’s quite good so far.
Recently three friends of mine got nice press coverage, so I thought I’d share them: - Reed Sturtevant is doing some great things at Microsoft in Boston - Paul Engiish and Kayak are showing the true prices of air travel - Ted Morgan of Skyhook are performing magic with photos and no-GPS So in fact, there IS cool tech stuff going on in Boston 🙂
I just came across Dave Dupre’s blog. Some good reading there, for example: > “[…snip] If the single test does not show a huge improvement, the project is considered a failure and scrapped. This happens all the time, and it always stifles innovation. Why propose something new...
Read more →I haven’t seen anyone pointing to this article about TechCrunch and Professor Arrington, but it’s very interesting. I remember when it was first starting and how he would write an unbelievable number of interesting and useful reviews...
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He’s been saying something like this since a week after 9/11. I agreed with him then, and I still ag...
I am on a Mac and I have lots of odd little things running, doing backups, syncs, who knows what. Every so often my computer goes “boink!” with no error message or display and I wonder, hmm, I wonder what just happened? I have a suspicion it’s my hourly backup which is boinking because one file couldn’t be backed up. But it might be finder saying that it was done copying all those files (oh wait, maybe that’s a “bing” not a “boing”) Or might it be something else totally?
I got the big new release of FireFox 3.0. Looks fine. Actually looks mostly the same. I am not sure what the big changes are but I am trying it out to see how it goes. I know one regular headache with FireFox for me has been that it would pin the CPU for no apparent reason. The closest I came to see...
Read more →I am a LifeLock customer and so I follow developments in this arena pretty closely. Check this post LifeLock and Identity Theft from Schneier on Security: > LifeLock does a **bunch of othe...
Read more →My Citibank MasterCard allows me to generate a virtual credit card number, pretty simply, using a fairly ugly web interface. But a few clicks and you get a picture of a credit card, including numbers, dates and CVC. The magic is that this credit card can be used only once so if it’s stolen you don’t run a risk. Pretty cool. I just used it to pay for some software online and it worked like a charm. Simple and useful!
This is a question I hear all the time. I thought I’d write a bit of an introduction to the topic. Check out “The difference between a web site and a blog”on Squidoo.
I just returned from RailsConf, a conference all about Ruby on Rails. Many bloggers have [written about it...
Sounds ominous, right? So I call them up, and I hear a serious voice telling me to please hold on, then I hear the official sounding “you are being recorded” beep beep beep. Then the voice comes on the phone and says, “Thanks for calling Discover Card. Please give me your Discover Card number.” What would you do? I am worried about fraud on my card, right? But do I know who I am actually talking to?
There’s an amusing site called Google Sightseeing whose sole purpose is to point out cool/curious/amusing features that...
Ever wonder what speed your internet connection really has? Try this handy-dandy little utility!
I’m in Portland Oregon for a few days for a conference, and this may be an unfair sample, but I was amazed to see how many more people seem to be smoking cigarettes – on the street, in restaurants, etc – than what I am used to in Boston. Only one data point, but notable. I wonder why.
Check this post Life Lock’s CEO Identity Stolen from MetaFilter: > Life Lock CEO’s Identify Stolen Remember all those commercials recently t...
Read more →This, from American Airlines: > “Your trip is eligible for check-in now. Save time at the airport and check-in on AA.com® any time from now up to one hour prior to your departure. To use our new instant check-in feature, simply click the button below and print your boarding pass. Save this email and use your personal check-in button for quick and easy check-in for your return flight.” Anyone have any idea what possible benefit I get for checking in online? I don’t think any of these - Save Time? How? I still have to go show my Id before getting my boarding pass don’t I? - Checked bags? Still have to go to the counter as usual, don’t I? Checking in online seems cool, but why???
Adam Green points to Scoble who re-discover and discover, respectively, Amazon’s street by street, address by address, photographic coverage of the map of, what, the universe? It’s a neat new user interface of something [they’ve had for a ...
Read more →I met with a potential client the other day who was on red alert because there were a lot of nasty things being said about them on blogs, comments and forums. And I thought of the concept of asymmetrical conflict as we have learned about it in recent years. Even without knowing whether the criti...
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