I want to wax quixotic about my job a little bit. As I’ve explained before, one of the projects I’m working on “starts from a simple enough assertion: People want to be better at their jobs. My goal is to deliver a product that will help satisfy that desire.” Part of my task is discover [...]
March 19, 2007 – 02:43 pm
From One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones: “Millions of people have more than one phone number these days — home, work, cellular, hotel room, vacation home, yacht — and with great complexity comes great hassle. A new service called GrandCentral, now in its final weeks of public beta testing, solves all of these [...]
January 2, 2007 – 10:28 am
In Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without, Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch.com, the Wall Street Journal of Web 2.0 business news, picks the handful of Web 2.0 applications that made a real impact on his life. I follow this stuff relatively closely (relative to most FI readers), and he named a few sites [...]
October 6, 2006 – 01:20 pm
In Riding the Waves of “Web 2.0″, Pew Internet writes, ““Web 2.0†has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see [...]
September 20, 2006 – 11:35 am
From The Mu Life: “A meta-utopia, at least for the purposes of this article, is a state where every piece of information has exhaustive, reliable (accurate), and (if possible) standardized meta-data attached to it. Ultimately, reliable meta-data can be a powerful tool for refining search queries. In a meta-utopia, a user would not have to [...]
August 23, 2006 – 12:01 am
In September of 2005, Tim O’Reilly wrote a now classic article (well, as classic as a year-old article can be) entitled, “What is Web 2.0?”, and ever since then, the term has taken on a life of its own. A Google search brings up over 108 million hits. Technorati, a service that tracks the content [...]
August 9, 2006 – 03:36 pm
Besides the Apple thing, another thing I said last week was that I would explain Web 2.0 to you. Probably ain’t gonna happen this week. Hopefully next week.Until then, check out Web 2.0: The 24 Minute Documentary.
August 3, 2006 – 10:32 am
I wrote a post last week about what I do for a living. In it, I mentioned that I am responsible for developing a new “Web 2.0″ website for my employer, but I didn’t explain what that means. And I’m not going to explain it in this post either.
But what I am going to [...]
I’m going to do something I haven’t really done before. I’m going to talk about my job. Some of you know where I work, and some of you don’t. I’m not going to mention their name nor what industry they are in, because this post is not about them at all. It’s about what I [...]
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