Posts Tagged ‘opinion’

Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones.  Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I’m going to extend it to "connected applications" that aren’t SMS or voice.  Windows [...]

Is your company, web site, or business model ready for the smarter customer spending habits being created by data transparency?  The world of data transparency is one where anyone can access, slice, dice, pivot, and extrapolate on their own about your products is almost here. The cost of doing so, like other commodity driven resources [...]

Here is a little glitch I ran into with Google Reader. I’m hopeful someone on that team picks this up, but maybe I’m giving their bug/idea search too much credit. The problem is that Google reader isn’t always ready to go offline.  Before my most recent flight to Dallas I installed Gears and tested switching [...]

In the next release Community Server will support "Groups".  I love the feature, but it could create a new problem for community site managers.  How do you manage the creation and population of these sub-communities on your site?  I tend to agree with Sean and believe that Facebook does a terrible job of this.  And [...]

  I’ve been amazed at how quickly Facebook has taken off with my core friend group in Seattle. Out of all the people my wife and I routinely interact with there are only 2 that aren’t “facebooking”.  Watching the non-technical members of the group I think it comes down to a combination of factors. There [...]

I remember when I started working at Microsoft. Everyone there used MSN Messenger (if they used IM… most didn't at first) and I was the new guy from college that used AIM because all my friends where there.  If a friend was on both AIM and MSN I added them twice so that no matter [...]

There is something obviuos missing from Feedburner now that they’ve been purchased by Google.  It’s a link splicer for Google Reader.  I love sharing items in Google Reader and having a link blog, but what I really wanted to do was merge those links into this main blog feed. I attempted blog mirroring with Community [...]