Year: 2005

Working for a company that many have described as a “Web 2.0” company, I absolutely love this characterization of what Web 2.0 means… I somehow missed this post from IBM developer James Snell written in May.  He describes Web 2.0 as “chmod 777 web“.  He adds some perspective on what Web 2.0 means to him:…

Whoa, nelly. Makes you want to get into the movie business, making movies nobody ever sees: Via Phosita: Story on the $17.5 million clearance of rights of Dukes of Hazzard. [The Trademark Blog]

Haven’t vanished… had a great time ‘down the shore’ in New Jersey, then turned right around and hit the road. Will be back in Illinois this weekend, and life will return to some semblance of normal.

We hit the road for the east coast in the morning, visiting my parents in Avalon, New Jersey (on the shore). Can’t wait, I hear the water’s warm and it promises to be sunny almost the entire week. No blogging until I’m back. Something tells me you’ll manage.

…Which would make our latest announcement kind of big.

Wow — just updated my Treo with the updater for my Cingular Treo 650 and the results are pretty incredible. Available memory on the phone went from 4 megabytes to over 10 megabytes, thanks to the changes in the Palm file system). What does that mean? In the old filesystem, files took up a minimum…

It started harmlessly enough: giving a speech in front of a room of 400 attendees, my tongue hit my teeth just right. Though I’d had braces as a teen, my teeth had spent the last ten years on an inexorable march towards overbite, overcrowding and, well, chaos. Of my front four teeth on the bottom,…

I’m playing with Dave Winer’s OPML editor over here. That space will be a scratch pad to experiment a bit, I’ll write up my observations here once I’ve figured it all out. Congrats to Dave on hitting this milestone.

Kos points out the incredible commentary from a Deutsche Bank analyst in a recent New York Times article re: Costco and its treatment of its employees: Wow. How do these Wall Street analysts sleep at night? Costco’s average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam’s Club. And…

Two years ago, I pointed to a Britt Blaser post (which linked to Roland, who was linking to the source, Jason Kottke, whew!) about a donut vendor in NYC who put his customers on the honor system, and in the process doubled his customers per minute (as compared to other, similar donut vendors). Having recently…