April, 2006

Birth of the Uncool

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Personally I find those Bluetooth earpieces one of the least attractive pieces of technology ever invented — unless you want to look as if you’ve never had sex.
So I started thinking about past identifiers of male social cluelessness, and passing by the much-maligned pocket protector I hit upon slide rules. My father [...]

Web Tools 2.0

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Here’s my definition of Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 is, collectively, the technological responses to the rising social and commercial power of people on the Internet.
In my view, Web 2.0 is not really a technological phenomenon at all; it’s a social one, enabled by technology.
A key point: by “people,” I don’t mean clients or [...]

The Networked Book

Monday, April 10th, 2006

The first Networked Book! Our efforts for book publishers begin with Farrar, Straus Giroux’s Pulse by Robert Frenay. Some thoughts on the future of book publishing.

More domain name investigations

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Following on the heels of the DomainsBot domain name investigations comes Dennis Forbes’ great new study.
Dennis looks at the availability and popularity of acronyms, long and short names, common personal names, love vs. sex, prefixes and suffixes. Nice work!
Tags: domain names, Dennis Forbes, DomainsBot

Timeline of RSS Book Publishing

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

A Timeline of publishing books via RSS, beginning with the Gutenberg Project and ending with Names@Work’s publication of Robert Frenay’s Pulse on behalf of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.