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- A Case of the Mondays
Everyone knows you’ll have bad days but the good thing is that they generally don’t happen too often. If they did, you’d have a tough time getting out of bed each day, heading to the office. Today though was a bad day. Mistakes were made last week and the bill came due [...]
- Simple Mongrel Handler
I have a project at work which I just need to break down a given URL and insert data into a database, nothing more, nothing less. Right now for convenience sake, I’m using JBoss, mainly because it was already setup and ready to go. That’s way too much stuff for this so I [...]
- Ask3D
Lots of people are talking about Ask’s launch of their new search interface and new algorithm. It is a different way to search and so far, I’m very impressed by it. I’m not going to rehash all the new features as any of the above links can do that. Instead, I thin [...]
- Celebrating Failure
A week or so ago, Tara Hunt posted a thought-provoking blog entry. That isn’t really a shock since most of her pieces live in my browser tabs, waiting for some sort of response. Invariably, too much time passes before I comment and the moment is gone. Hopefully that isn’t the case for [...]
- Physical Activity Fishbowl
One of my favorite blogs is information aesthetics. They post some amazing visualizations of data and sites which do the same. One of their latest posts shows off a physical activity fishbowl which was used in a study recently.
The basic idea is that a virtual fish’s size and facial expressions are [...]
- Facebook Platform as the Evolution of the Portal?
David Sacks makes this argument in a recent guest post on TechCrunch. He’s see the evolution coming from the browsing of portals to search-based portals and now to a portal which your social graph pushes information to you. He sees the Facebook Platform as the example of the last step.
Obviously I’m a little [...]
