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Ever learned of something just a fraction too late behind “everyone else”, causing an immediate disregard for that thing?
For me, the incident I remember most was the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. I prided myself on knowing cool weird bands, then boom, everyone was listening to Nirvana, and I’d somehow completely missed the boat. […]

A year from today, I’ll be 35.
That’ll make me eligible to be the President of the United States. I had planned on announcing my web2.0 candidacy, and do a Ze Frank-esque 1-year internship of running for president. I even registered a domain, “designed” a logo, and planned on doing a write-in campaign to […]

Browsing the website for the Web 2.0 Summit coming up in October, I tripped across the Launch Pad portion. The introduction says, in part
While it’s great to be chosen to launch your new company at a conference like Web 2.0 Summit, the reality of the market is that the majority of successful Web 2.0 […]

Was signing up to try Remember The Milk, and thought the way they figure out your date-formatting preference was pretty smooth.

Well, that’s pretty darn simple.

In a thread on TheServerSide, commentors are discussing how much trust you can put into an OpenID identity. Even the OpenID literature speaks of a server that returns true to all queries. The argument seems to be that since you don’t control the OpenID server, you can’t trust the identity returned, making it […]

Today Ning crossed the dad threshold. This is the point in time when someone like your dad might actually cross paths with the work you (or your friends) do.
Without you having to say “hey dad, look at this”.
I’ve personally never crossed this point with my own father. He has a rough idea of […]

I applaud the recent announcement between JBoss (Red Hat) and Exadel.
JBoss, through Seam, is committed to JSF, the standard view framework for Java EE applications. The Exadel components represent a nice set of JSF-compatible chunks to help build rich applications, using AJAX and such.
To be honest, I’m still learning JSF myself.
But from a business […]

Communities exist independent of any actual connections between people. There’s a community of people who have all bungee-jumped off the same bridge as you, even if you’ve never met them.
But, throw a Bridge Day, and the community becomes visible.
With online communities, this is quite evident. Some communities are purely based around the tools […]

Following on the heels of my last post, I’d like to announce the Ruby Underground. It’s simply a selective aggregator of Ruby blogger content. There’s already plenty of sources for generic ruby content. Tons of 20-something youngsters (yes, I’m old) are out there talking about Ruby on Rails and such.
The Ruby Underground […]

Blogs and such are supposed to be about both aggregation and syndication. With aggregators such as Bloglines or NetNewsWire, I think we’ve thus far got a pretty good handle on aggregation. Or at least personal aggregation. In true populist web2.0 form, the user is supposed to cut out the middleman, and just […]