BlogJet 1.6 is released. The one feature I really want isn’t in there yet – the ability to paste an image from the clipboard, instead of having to use some other tool to save it to disk as a file first – but it does add the ability to insert an image directly from your […]
Noted by Jeremie, Google prevents other search engines from indexing their content. What would be the motivation for that, I wonder?
Dare posts on what it takes to become a target for acquisition: If you are building a Web startup with the intention of flipping it to one of the majors, only three things matter; technology/IP, users andthe quality of your technical team. I think there’s another aspect, that Dare isn’t considering, and that isn’t directly […]
I’ve brought back the Long Tail site. Between when I took it offline and now, the blo.gs site was purchased by Yahoo, and shut down public access to their ping service. The site says to email them for access, but I did and got no response, so I’ve changed the way I find updated feeds […]
An email from Sony: Access RSS-distributed audio content for playback on your PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) system! Listen to audio from websites with RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. When connected to the Internet, the PSP™ system will automatically update audio content that has been added to these pages for your listening pleasure! Of course they’re talking about […]
I should have called this post Five Gifts Not to Buy for Christmas.
A New Cell Phone. Now, if it was just a new cell phone, where you could take the SIM card out of your old phone and put it in the new one and have a better phone than you had previously, then it would be a good gift – maybe a great gift – but […]
It’s always easy to sign up online. It’s never easy to cancel online.
The Xooglers blog (ex-Google folks talking about their time at Google) has a page of words that you’d hear around Google and how they’re used. Mostly typical stuff, but there’s one I think needs a little extra note. “So…” uttered in a meeting isn’t just clearing your throat, it’s an attempt to gain the conversational […]
I don’t get a ton of comments here to start with, and I get far more spam than I do comments, so I’m switching to moderated commenting.