On my list of horrendously bungled acquisitions, I put Delicious near the top. Since its acquisition by Yahoo in 2005, the biggest user-facing change to the site was a visual refresh in 2008. Even with this rampant feature stagnation, I’d stuck with the site because it solved a daily need for me — bookmarks anywhere.… more
At the first whisper of school starting, Californians lose their fucking minds during the morning commute. What was a leisurely 20 minute commute to Cupertino turns into an hour of frustration. It’s not just that a large demographic of people are suddenly on the same schedule, it’s that they’re panicking because they’re late for work.… more
Pet peeve — a name which do a poor job of describing an idea. A good name’s job is to elegantly wrap an idea in a single word because a name is going to travel. It’s going to leave one person’s mouth and go to another… and another… and another. Each time the name jumps… more
The size of the fervent rush towards the Ajax reminds me that folks are dying to discover the Next Big Thing. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a Netscape-magnitude holy shit and while there are have been many false positives… has any Internet technology in the past two years seriously knocked your socks off? Well,… more
I have never paid a cent to Google. “Google is doing just fine without your money, Rands.” Someone is paying the bills… who are they? “Online advertising is the revenue stream at Google. This means that advertisers believe that ads on Google translate into sales of their product and they wouldn’t pay if this wasn’t… more
I’ve been tinkering with placing RSS feeds (via the fine mt-rssfeed plugin) on the right side of the front page. The Popdex Top five is there now although I considered both Daypop and Yahoo Buzz feeds. Unfortunately, Daypop looks (and has remained) broken based on looking at their front page and the Yahoo! buzz results… more
When Movabletype (�MT�) was suggested to me as a means of managing Rands In Repose, I was immediately put off by the requirement of having to display the MT logo on the web page. HEY SCREW YOU PAL, IT�S MY WEBSITE AND I�M NOT AN ADVERTISING WHORE.
