Archived Writing, Syndication and SEO Black Magic

February 19, 2010

I’ve watched as many of the projects I’ve worked on in the past have come to an end. In each case I’ve usually contributed some amount of writing to a blog about that project. One annoying side effect of the end of these projects is that my writing oftentimes ends up committed to the void, [...]

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SnapMyInfo AR

February 18, 2010

The next phase of snapmyinfo is something I’m calling snapyinfo AR. It takes the basic 2D barcode, “QR”, decoding technology of snapmyinfo and adds an augmented reality experience on top of it for contact sharing.
I experimented with a live video decoder prototype at the MassTLC tech tuesday event in November. That experiment pointed to [...]

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Naming Your Web Product

December 7, 2009

When I’m developing something new, I always have a terrible time coming up with a name I really like. I spend way too much time obsessing over it. Web products have the additional burden of having to have an available domain to use. I’ve written before how we obsess over these things, but that I [...]

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The Fall of The Benevolent Google

December 4, 2009

Louis Gray has a post where he declares that Google will never be “evil”. I found it very interesting for a few reasons. Why does Google seem so benevolent? Why do so many people implicitly trust them? As Louis highlights, part of it is the corporate culture they’ve built. I think, however, there is [...]

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Munich

December 2, 2009

A series of pictures that I took with my iphone in Munich.

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Plum Island

December 2, 2009

Some pictures we took when we were on Plum Island a few months ago. Testing some mediaRSS modifications.

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Update: SnapMyInfo

December 1, 2009

It’s been about two months since I opened up SnapMyInfo for testing, thank you to all those who have given the site a try! I thought I would write a quick post with an update on the project.
First, a thank you to Marshall Kirkpatrick for mentioning the project over on his posterous blog. That [...]

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An Interesting Video from the Web 2.0 Expo on Currency

November 23, 2009

Some pretty thought provoking ideas about currency and its implications regarding creativity, abundance, and the digital world. Not sure if I agree with all of it, but still interesting.
Web 2.0 Expo NY 09: Douglas Rushkoff, “Radical Abundance: How We Get Past “Free”

Found via FriendFeed user “Complex Days”

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Chrome OS and The Luxury of Time

November 20, 2009

Chrome is going to be a major hit! Or err… maybe it’s going to be a huge flop. We have no idea.
In the throes of building my second startup, I’m acutely aware of one thing: time. Google doesn’t need to have a runaway success with ChromeOS (or Android for that matter) right out of the [...]

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Beyond The Long Game

October 30, 2009

I just read a pretty stunning analysis over on, abovethecorwd.com (Bill Gurley’s blog, a VC with Benchmark Capital): Google Redefines Disruption.
I underestimated Google’s price/cost strategy, in my previous post. I thought they were going to allow market forces and free (both as in beer and speech) to bring cost of handsets to near zero [...]

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