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what “web 2.0″ really means — and why “web 3.0″ will never come
Posted by on February 21, 2009
I generally have a bad reaction to fads but perhaps as strong a reaction to things that can be easily turned into them, or misappropriated as such. “Web 2.0,” which Tim O’Reilly & Co. coined back in 2004 (which now feels like a century ago), and that Tim discussed at length in this 2005 Post-FOO [...]
I hadn’t looked at LyX
Posted by on July 25, 2008
I hadn’t looked at LyX in a long time, and it has gotten really good. By now it may be the way to do LaTeX without a lot of complexity, on any platform.
tip to microsoft marketing: if you’re going to try sell me something, don’t start by calling me an idiot
Posted by on July 22, 2008
on the new MS vista campaign. Comment on the ad and also on the details “translating” their material such as “but some of you complained” to “we know that even Bill Gates couldn’t make this stuff work…”
iphone 3G battery life tips
Posted by on July 17, 2008
As I mentioned in my earlier post, the battery life of the iPhone 3G was a complete disaster for me, but I had noticed this is the old iPhone with the new firmware as well, so I did some experiments. Apple has a list of things you can do to improve battery life which is, if [...]
the obligatory iPhone 3G review
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Yes, yes, I belong to the fraternity of lost souls that queued up over the weekend to get His Steveness’ shiny new toy. Having had an iPhone for a year now I’ve increasingly used the browser more and more, and a few times I’ve used the maps+search feature to find something close to where I [...]
defender of the favicon
Posted by on July 15, 2008
Defender of the Favicon. Defend away at a glorious 16×16 resolution!
graphs aren’t social
Posted by on June 3, 2008
At Ning, we often hear the following question from people outside the company: how do we see the ‘social graph’ from our perspective? They don’t ask what people enjoy doing on the service. They don’t ask for stories of users, of finding long-lost friends, or of newfound friendships. They don’t ask what makes people on [...]
microhoo: what’s next
Posted by on April 28, 2008
As we wait with baited breath for the next move in the Microsoft/Yahoo saga, Marc just posted a must-read entry on what happens if microsoft goes fully hostile. Meanwhile techcrunch has some speculation. Another interesting question is what exactly is Microsoft buying with this, given that many people would leave, many have already left, and [...]
Professor Knuth gets many right, at least one very, very wrong
Posted by on April 27, 2008
An interesting interview with Professor Donald Knuth (via slashdot, where the slashdotter writes: “[Knuth] pitches his idea of “literate programming” which I must admit I’ve never heard of but find it intriguing” — really? never “heard” of that? I think it was one of the first things in programming I “heard” of… anyway…). Some interesting [...]
