Monthly Archives: October 2005

Paying for Betas

Kevin Burton doesn’t have enough money for server(s). So, for fund raising, he is offering you the privilege of testing his product, if you pay $20. I think this has a few major problems, that whole paying for servers idea. … Continue reading

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flock to companies without a business plan

Testing Flock. I am missing the point . Okay. Dragging Images around is kinda cool. Still missing the point on how they will make money. Just using Yahoo as a default search engine can’t make you really rich. The (forced) … Continue reading

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forum software?

I am looking for suggestions & experiences for forum / bulletin board software. Wikipedia has a cute comparison of many different boards. Nothing really seems to stand out. I looked at many of their home pages, but all of the … Continue reading

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google

Computerworld: According to Rasmussen, Google’s design philosophy centres on end user loyalty not money, going beyond the browser’s lowest common denominator, to develop simple Web applications that are as dynamic as native applications, and to launch early and often to … Continue reading

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welcome to the suck

Javascript sucks. Don’t use it to build your enterprise application. DJB sucks. Maybe he is a cool guy, but these days, I expect better quality apps. Oh. I see the connection. Both of these stopped being cool, in like, 1998.

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thought of the day

Programing itself isn’t hard, it just happens to deal with hard problems more often than other tasks. I don’t personally think multi-threaded programing is inherently hard, but put a hard problem on top of a multi-threaded program, and it is … Continue reading

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Bubble 2.0

Great article over at the Register about Web 2.0. I really like the 2nd page, where he talks about the idiots trying to build a global operating system aka Web 2.0 on top of non-reliable services like Flickr.

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curve balls

So, I found this cool quote over on the web 2.0 con website. Well. What can I say, the curve balls do make life interesting….

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