Everyone in the Silicon Valley, whether they know it or not, is waiting for the “next big thing”. We’re sitting at our desks in our obscenely large, yet safe companies tapping our fingers on the desk waiting… waiting for something… waiting for that something new that, right now, is struggling to find it’s way out… more
It seems that most of the folks who are on my MUST READ weblog list are headed to Santa Clara for O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference. I’m busy emerging technology for my own company and will not be attending. Alas. The track list is here and worth of a look-see if you often wonder “what’s next?”.… more
BlogShares is a “fantasy stock market for weblogs.” The idea appears to be that folks get $500 virtual dollars to invest in weblogs whose valuation appears to be based on “the incoming links to it and a host of other calculations”. Translation, if “higher priced” weblogs link to you, your valuation goes up. At this… more
Eliza demonstrated a potential holy shit the other day when she sent the following message showed up in a chat window… “Click to see my video”. Being a regular surfer of the Internet, I immediately thought, “Cool, porn.” When I clicked on the link, I was surprised to see a small window appear with Eliza… more
Ok, so I’m on a bit of PS2 platform game kick — I’ve completed Ratchet and Clank (killer fun) and just recently completed Jak and Daxter (not as fun as Clank, but still fun)… both of these, for those who pay attention to PS2, are “platform” games. I like them mostly because they are brain… more
With a painfully lame name such as Friendster, you’d probably never visit this domain unless someone threatened you, yet, this social networking site has gone viral with my group of friends in the past week. The competitive differentiator for Friendster is that you can’t see anyone on the network until you add an actual ‘real’… more
Sunday afternoon hacking on Mac OS X. A mailing list showed me some nifty Perl which listed appreviations for states… pointing at the directory /usr/share/misc. Now, I’m a Unix virgin, so I have no clue what this directory is for, but upon examination I find the following files: Airport : Lists airports and airport abbreviations… more
Quote from the architect selected to build the new World Trade Center: Libeskind says that having calculated the arc of the sun, a wedge of natural light would funnel visitors to the memorial site, and that every September 11 between 8:46 a.m., when the first tower was struck by a plane, and 10:28 a.m., when… more
I had drinks with a gaggle of old friends who’ve decided to stick it out with these various start-ups. Having decided to jump to a big company, it was strange to hear all the various woes of start-up-dom that I’d completely forgotten. Thank god. Two questions that I was surprised that none of the friends… more
Google’s purchase of Pyra/Blogger is guaranteed to do one thing: Reignite the inane discussion whether it’s “blogging” or “weblogging”. For what it’s worth, my vote is for weblogging for the same reason I don’t like pronouncing the word “meme”… I don’t much like words like sound like your mumbling when you’re actually speaking English. All… more