I’m always interested in applications that bring the real world and the virtual world closer together, it’s why I’m so interested in SecondLife and it’s why I founded Fabjectory. Today Tinker.IT has released a very interesting application that I think … Continued
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Google Background Checks
Found this on John Battelle’s Searchblog, legal precedent has now been set letting Google searches for a person act as actionable information regarding employment. That seems to be the crucial part of the ruling here, because it essentially means it’s … Continued
Flock’s Stickiness
I’ve always been deeply impressed by the intentions and execution of the Flock browser team. It’s based on the same web browser engine that Firefox uses so they gain many of the advantages of that, from their site: Flock is … Continued
That Damned Key
So the tech world has been going on and on about the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) HD Encryption key making it out into about a million places all over the internet. Long story short, this … Continued
Calibrated
Sometimes you hear a turn of phrase that you just instantly “get” only to slowly realize that it’s not going to work in day to day conversations. Brad Feld used the phrase “we were calibrated” to describe one of the … Continued
API Usefulness
One of the things I did to help manage Fabjectory mentions on the Internet was to develop a mini application that pulled in search results from a couple different sources and let me track and report on my responses to … Continued
Software is Hardware, Hardware is Software
While the phrase “Software is Hardware, Hardware is Software” is perhaps not literally true; it does highlight a larger truth: that over time what were once hardware functions have increasingly become software ones. As part of Om Malik’s writeup of … Continued
Daring Microsoft / Yahoo!
If companies can be compared to living beings, then the code used to run them is their DNA. John Gruber of Daring Fireball asks a very pertinent question of the rumored and now supposedly dead talks for Microsoft to buy … Continued
New Look
I updated the theme of the site to Cutline by Chris Pearson. It looks a little less cluttered now. I’m also attempting to forward all the feeds to FeedBurner, so things might be wacky for a day or two. Thanks, … Continued
It’s Tools not Terrorism
I really feel for the high school student who was expelled for recreating the architecture of his school as a level in CounterStrike. He’s in Fort Bend Indiana, stuck in a large building with a maze of hallways all day … Continued