May 2010
I’m Married! →
I’m living proof that wonderful things can happen to quasi-good people (I have my moments). I was fortunate in that Michelle didn’t come to her senses and last minute …
Like Features, Like Dueling Banjos →
Two talented friends, Kevin Marshall and Brian Hendrickson are hacking out solutions to an open sentiment format in the wake of Facebook’s Open Graph and Like feature. A…
That Voodoo that You Do, Social Web Magic →
Spurred on by a Marshall Kirkpatrick Cinchcast early this am, I’ll take a cut at identifying what works for me personally as a browser and content creator. Marshall…
Transient Technology, how probe may handle... →
The intentional interconnection of technology happens at surfaces that are matched*. No matter how well thought out, interface assumptions must iteratively adapt to a dynamic data…
The Evolution of Online Gaming →
A brief conversation with my visiting friend Eli Sacks has lead to a review of the state of online gaming and what directions it may take in the future. We both have been long time PC…
Probe: A fictional programming language →
This morning’s riff is a beginning for a new programming language which may end up being a dialect or library of an existing language after I take a look at what I’ve written. I’ll…
Global Communication for Free →
Organizations where founders are at the bottom, universal ownership
It’s healthy, especially for a startup nut like me, to consider other community formats besides the classic…
The Startup School Bus →
The Awakening
After what feels like an eternity of uneasy rest your alarm forces you out of bed just long enough to get a loose shoe thrown at it, quieting it’s annoying…
Technological and Product Commitment →
There comes a time in any explorative learning phase where a team has to make a serious commitment to a chosen technology. Every day spent working with web programming exposes me to a…
Websockets wikipedia page
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WebSockets is a technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)socket, designed to be implemented in web browsers and web servers. The WebSockets API is being standardized by the W3C and the WebSocket protocol is being standardized by the IETF. Contents [hide] 1 WebSocket Protocol...
Web Servers that Live in Your Browser →
This is a pretty amazing find if it’s true. OperaUnite is a browser based server that will allow hosting files, web sites, and most importantly to me, fully distributed social…
Nostat.us API draft 0 →
Nostat.us is a message first service, where communication is king.
Today I’m taking a crack at documenting a brief api for Nostat.us, Victus Media’s simple group messaging…
Web Publishing, Design & Dynamic Content →
The Free Publishing Platforms
The most popular places to host free blog length content right now that I visit regularly:
Wordpress
Blogger
Tumblr
Posterous
Others…
Where Imagination and Technology Collide →
Throughout our lives we rely on the technological designs of others. From baby formulas and clothing to transportation and education the world we live in is an…
Viral Patterns, Alpha Business, & King Makers →
Viral patterns are those ideas and products that you just can’t put down. You immediately feel a need to show it to friends to gain social proof of your impression, and if your hunches…
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Kevin Lynch to demo HTML5 tool with = timeline/layers etc at Google I/O? http://bit.ly/90E4h3 ugh twitter is = already over capacity, it’s only 8am. i/o? style=3D”= clear: both;”>
Nostat.us is Live! →
Behold! The soft release of Nostat.us.
Nostat.us is social web communicating, without distraction.
We’d love you to sign up and try it out at:
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Style is an Invitation →
More than a series of Anonymous Tips
Disjoint input is filtered out by our minds as noise. From blog posts, to product releases, to warnings from the surgeon general, to…
Personal Social Gardens that Live in the Browser →
My esteemed colleague and cofounder Tyler hacked out a 100 line observer pattern, message sharing server. He used Ruby and Sinatra and we chatted on it briefly this…
It’s not X, but how you Y →
It’s not where you’re going, but how you get there
It’s not what technology you’re inventing, but how you use it to improve people’s lives
It’s not what you’re…
Waves, Timing and Becoming Real →
Is the most important part of a wave the beginning, the end, or somewhere in the middle? It’s a loaded question, because the answer is localized to both the amplitude of a…
Profiting from Anti Facebook Sentiment →
Four young coders are tapping into public resentment of centralized social web services with Diaspora, a distributed social tool they plan to hack out this summer.
My reaction…
EPIC, the end of email →
EPIC is a protocol idea outlined briefly below. If people like the idea, I’ll work on an alpha form and distributed connection example.
Between many choices we gravitate to what…
What You Bring to the Table →
Matt Mireles called out a growing disparity between non-tech and technical cofounders in the NYC startup scene. I was in this situation last year where I had an idea for a product,…
Signal Purpose and the Phoenix →
I can guess what you’re thinking, and no, the title’s not a typo or normal Mark word mangling. Today’s riff is a brief look at startups as a system, related marketing, messages and…
Image Browser for Twitter is Live →
This is an adaption of the IMM (Intelligent Media Manager) focused on dynamic images. It includes a search within function (search within user tweets or search within list…
