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October 19, 2005
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October 13, 2005
MySpace hacked: samy is my hero.
“Oh wait, it’s exponential, isn’t it. Shit.” This is too funny. Hack some social software and get 1 million new friends!
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September 20, 2005
TextDrive Gives Urchin the Finger
“The response of the TextDrive community has been fascinating to watch. Rather than looking to Urchin’s competition for a solution, they’ve decided to become Urchin’s competition.”
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September 18, 2005
Building the Urchin Killer?
When you ignore some customers, they may decide to try and build you some competition.
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September 15, 2005
24FightingChickens: The Secret Order of the ^v^
Welcome back to the web, 24FC. Don’t be a chicken, be a man and turn on your comments. Make your own Usenet.
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August 23, 2005
GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
The Future via Kottke. It’s an evolution of the First Web Miracle, PC and Mac users being able to read the same document. But now we’re talking applications
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August 15, 2005
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet.
Isn’t this how the movie Terminator began, except it was called “SkyNet”?
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June 17, 2005
Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
“The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not”
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June 02, 2005
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April 03, 2005
Spring break gone wild
“In this digital age, everyone’s a potential amateur pornographer poised to turn a few seconds of immaturity into a lifetime of Web-based infamy.”
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March 13, 2005
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March 12, 2005
The Online Coalition :: Letter to the FEC
“we ... request that the FEC promulgate a rule exempting unpaid political activity on the Internet from regulation, thereby guaranteeing every American’s right to speak freely and participate in our democratic process.”
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February 26, 2005
Spam Huntress: Verio’s server still full of spam
As
I said, “Do not use Verio, they harbor one of the biggest spammers on the web, and appear unable or unwilling to do anything about it”
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November 26, 2004
EPIC 2014
A very entertaining and somewhat scary eight minutes ... from the future
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November 21, 2004
The Tech-Support Generation
“Next week, on our annual pilgrimage home, we’ll turn our Web-trained minds and joystick-conditioned fingers to the task of rescuing our parents from bleeding-edge technology on the blink.”
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November 09, 2004
Firefox 1.0 is released
If you’re still using Internet Explorer, in terms of both features and security, you’re driving the
Corvair of web browsers
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October 19, 2004
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September 12, 2004
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August 24, 2004
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August 17, 2004
“It looks like Earthlink has hired performance artists to staff its live online help department”
I wave a dead chicken over my DSL modem every night, in hopes of avoiding Earthstink tech support
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July 09, 2004
KerryEdwards.com
Not what you’d expect; it’s the 2 year old personal site of a man named Kerry Edwards.
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July 01, 2004
TextDrive adds a very sweet $12/month plan
300mb of space, 3 GB of bandwidth/mo., 6 MySQL databases, to host up to 3 domains. Plus all the standard TextDrive GoodStuff.
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South Korea blocks Internet access to some weblogs
“Affected are thousands of netizens who use and read blogspot.com, blogger.com, blogs.com and typepad.com, among other sites”
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June 23, 2004
Getting More Out Of Gmail
“a collection of programs, sites, and information that will allow you to get more out of Gmail”
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June 22, 2004
Gmail 4 Troops.com
Google has ramped up the invitations, so give ‘em to a good cause
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Cory Doctorow talks to Microsoft about Digital Rights Management
“I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM”
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May 18, 2004
Popup Screenshot:
Googlespike, from the
Googlelanche
I’ll likely never see a traffic spike like that again
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May 14, 2004
More tales of
The Googlelanche:
Backcountry Conservative,
Outside the Beltway,
Single Southern Guy,
Brain Shavings
Looks like a lot of people, myself included, may be over on bandwidth for May
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May 01, 2004
mozDex: An Open Source Search Engine, with a really bad logo
“mozDex uses open source search technologies to create an open and fair index”
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April 30, 2004
“file sharing is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism”
At least, when soldiers do it and hog their unit’s bandwidth
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April 16, 2004
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April 10, 2004
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April 06, 2004
The Secret Source of Google’s Power
“Google is a company that has built a single very large, custom computer”
