Category Archives: Web

Digital Swarm Behavior

Thought this was interesting: Digital Swarm Behavior In general, I keep waiting for a new set of paradigms for “everyone to be talking about” to emerge. The candidates I hear about are: “social graph”, as in “facebook rules the social graph” … Continue reading

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Lost sale – a tale of a forgotten password

“Online interactions should mimic real-life experiences as much as possible” – from a Colleague’s conference abstract With all the talk about customer/user experience, businesses sometimes forget that ALL interactions matter, and that friction built in any phase of the transaction … Continue reading

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Understatement of the morning.

Understatement of the morning for me. Emphasis mine. One issue that I ran into was leveraging Expeditor’s Accounts API. I wanted to use that API, but I kept getting NullPointerExceptions when processing an account update. I think the documentation could … Continue reading

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Job Description – Wish I was qualified

This came my way, and I just like the scale of it. Scale of computer systems has truly changed over the last decade, and I imagine this is one of the job that brings SkyNet a little closer to being… … Continue reading

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Lotus Mashups – Working and Learning

I have had discussions with the [awesome] Lotus Mashups team for a long time. It seems like a product that has lots of uses, and one whose architecture I really like. Recently, I needed to build some demos for a … Continue reading

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[SYNTHETIC-WORLDS] Greenland Open Beta

Always wish I had more time to participate in such activities. Anyone has a chance to try and let me know? Sent to a [SYNTHETIC-WORLDS] mailing list: A main goal of the synthetic worlds initiative at Indiana University is to … Continue reading

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New York City is not exepnsive, and other stories

A few years ago I met people behind many-eyes visualization project from IBM. Today, inspired by other things I have seen in the labs I decided to see what their site (http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com) has been up to. Always consumed by price … Continue reading

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forgot my password, so…

I forgot my admin password on wordpress. I know, it is silly, but I reset it to something and then promptly forgot.What followed, was a sad comedy of errors and a small ode to open source. For long version, see … Continue reading

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Highrise feature request

Now that I am a paying customer for highrise (highrisehq.com) I can request features, right? :) I am trying to figure out how best to use the “deals” feature, and it would be really great if I could surface emails/notes … Continue reading

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Notes on Margins

Fred Wilson wrote: It’s gotten to the point that if I can’t interact with content, I don’t want to consume it. When I read books, I underline certain passages so I can blog about them later. If I were reading … Continue reading

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