The Entertainment's Political Bias
For your entertainment: the Hollywood overwhelming leftist bias in numbers. To be taken with a grain of salt given PoliticalBase's elusiveness about how it collects the data and where it's coming from....
View ArticleUS 3G PAYG BYOD OMG WTF?
I'm thinking of buying an unlocked Nokia E71 (about $400 at Newegg, the Blackberry Bold isn't really available unlocked yet at decent prices, and the iPhone has half a dozen dealbreakers for me). I...
View ArticleDept. of People Who Know What They're Doing: DabbleDB
I've looked at online databases and spreadsheets rather extensively a couple of months ago, and DabbleDB had hands down the most powerful yet usable user interface of the bunch, significantly ahead of...
View ArticlePlowing through Unstructured Data
Jon Udell just experienced some of the practical limitations getting in the way of sharing and representing structured data easily that I've been running into myself. To produce an entry about Circuit...
View ArticleZoho Gets on Public Health Status Train
Kudos to Zoho for introducing a detailed dashboard monitoring the health of their online applications. I'm very pleased to see more and more web app vendors delivering on transparency I advocated as...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine Gets Serious About Availability, Transparency
After Zoho, Google. Now we're talking: System Status Dashboard, Quota Details Page, and a Billing Sneak Preview. These quotas and billings make me think Google must have hired someone who used to work...
View ArticleWant Timely Firmware Updates? Don't Buy a Nokia E71
To help other people from being sold a device that's not going to be maintained by its manufacturer, let me warn you that some versions of Nokia's E71 smartphone sold in the US (aka E71-2 NAM) have not...
View ArticleOffline Gmail
Gmail + Gears if finally happening. The pieces are really starting to be put together by Google here. Good move....
View ArticleNokia E71 Apps
Quick notes on apps I'm using with my E71 smartphone: Nimbuzz and Fring because (unless I'm being really dense here), Skype Mobile doesn't support free skype-to-skype calls over WiFi. I'm using Teliax...
View ArticleState of my VOIP Setup
I just bought a prepaid data package from Claro, one of the three mobile telcos here in Chile. After fumbling with their settings (their APN for prepago banda ancha is bap.clarochile.cl, not...
View ArticleQuick Update; ExpressionEngine Struggles
I haven't posted on this blog for a long time, mostly because we've kept ourselves quite busy hunting for, then buying and renovating a house in Concón, Chile. After 5 months of remodeling, we finally...
View ArticleAlive and grateful
Living through a major earthquake: pretty scary. Realizing your family, yourself, and your property don't have a scratch: priceless. My thoughts to the families of the deceased, wounded and homeless....
View ArticleOut-of-Left-Field Idea of the Day: Google Broadband
Pushing this entry back to the front after its first publication in October 2004. It's fun to see what's been right about it, and what already looks quite old context. It's from the...
View ArticleInteresting Online Marketing Tools - 2010 Edition
The marketplace for tools helping interactive marketers with their tests, tracking, and optimizing, seems more vibrant than ever. More and more small companies know what the issues are and work on...
View ArticleWeb Services Need to Advertise Their Health Status
September 2010 necro-update: How things have evolved through the last decade! There's now api-status.com to get the pulse of dozens of public APIs. You read it here first as per this entry originally...
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