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Yet Another Facebook Post

As I gradually brought myself online today I started to see that then entire tech and business sectors of the blogosphere seem to be talking about Facebook. While those two groups tend to get enamored easily, there is no denying that Facebook has made a series of moves that have raised their stock (figuratively [...]

Light Presence

I am in the mountains of Tennessee in a cabin outside of Gattlinburg. While I am not going to the extremes of Rex, I am going to be mostly offline.
I am hoping to have a little time to complete summarizr, but that plan may change. (Last night I uploaded the summarizr changes I [...]

Live-Blogging the Development of Summarizr

This morning I mentioned a little web service that I would like to use. This afternoon I decided that I might as well develop it. I am (naively / arrogantly) thinking that I will be able to complete a launch-able version of the application in a single day. (Actually, I don’t have a [...]

Web 3.0 Coming Soon To a TV Near You

Yesterday Dave Winer shared his observation on what Web3.0 will be. What I took away as the important part of what he said is the the web is going to be breaking free of the browser. Here is my gross simplification of how I see the progression.
Web 1.0 - Global Information. “Wow! [...]

Ma.gnolia Daily Blog Posting

I switched to Ma.gnolia for bookmarking a while back. I really like it more than del.icio.us.
There is one thing that really bugs me about Ma.gnolia; there is no daily blog post feature.
Sure, I can create a daily bookmark aggregation with statzen (FeedBurner can do the same thing). The problem with that work-around is [...]

Presence Based Notification Delivery for Business Intelligence

Condition-based alerts are a part of corporate reporting known as Business Intelligence (or BI). Typically these notifications are delivered through email, but IM is starting to be more common as well. Some people prefer to just be notified when they go to a website, but that is a little too passive for some [...]

Take the Preds Out Black and Berry Them

Enjoy the Preds while you can. Looks like they are going to be moving after next year.
RIMs Jim Balsillie to buy Nashville Predators
Hey, I like the Preds and all, but I am still going to buy a Blackberry 8830.

Exclusive: Interview with Jackson Miller

I just skimmed a post on lifehack about how to better brand your blog (Branding Your Blog for Success). I am not really very interesting in better branding my blog, but the post had a set of questions that I found interesting. So, I decided to answer those questions here.
So here you have [...]

Crystal Reports for Eclipse

Business Objects has recently released Crystal Reports for Eclipse. The first time I ever heard of it was when I heard one of our clients was requesting some Crystal / Eclipse development work.
When I was first initiated into the world of Crystal Reports last year I found it both very frustrating as well as [...]

Nashville Has Two of the Best Schools in the Country

Two Nashville high schools are in the Top 100 Public High Schools in America.
Congrats to all of the teachers, students, administrators, custodial workers, lunch ladies, and parents at Martin Luther King Jr. (23) and Hume Fogg (55).
[ht: Matt Nye]