On Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer correctly noted that while the New York Times’ slogan is “All the News That’s Fit to Print” (first appeared in 1896) the reality is it is “all the news there is room for”.
While I was working for a newspaper pre-press software company, we often noted it was “all [...]

My blog was “born” about three weeks ago. In that time, I have spent more than enough time making it look the way I want. Along the way, I’ve been reading a few other blogs - mostly starting at Carl’s blog and branching out from there. As I encounter a new blog, I read the [...]

Web 2.0 - highlighted by web services, mashups, the explosion of leveraging Google Maps, Wikis & Blogs, RSS/ATOM feeds, REST, etc - presumes that an application is the value-add portion of lots of reusable services. In most cases, the resources are remote and may or may not have had the expected usage.
Moore’s Law assumes compute [...]

So, I’ve got a bit crazy with some of the Lotusphere notions and my blog. I just implemented a tag cloud. I actually think it may prove interesting from a research POV. I will be curious …

will I keep it up to date ?
will it expose trends in my blogging content that I was not [...]

I use a blogging client called Windows Live Writer. It is an XMLRPC client that supports the MetaWeblog API. One thing that has bothered me has been it’s interface for “categories”. From looking at the API, I think it is less of an artifact of the client and more of a limitation in the API. [...]

Businesses call it “Collaboration Software” whereas the rest of the world calls it by whatever program they are using - “chatrooms” “forums”, “bulletin boards”, etc. This is definitely true of persistent chat solutions. The idea has been around longer than text messaging. The concept has roots in AOL chat rooms, message boards, BBS’s, even list-servers.
The [...]

A post on Kolabora links to the following new story …
Sramana Mitra submits: IBM’s (NYSE: IBM - News) entry into social networking is a smart move. Anyone who has experience with large enterprises knows how tedious it is to locate people with the right expertise. Thus, I envision a LinkedIn equivalent which serves less [...]

My Tag cloud implementation started from the Matt’s weighted-categories implementation on hitormiss. It was working fine but I needed two things (yeah, just 2)

the hover text to be more informative
WordPress 2.1 support

I only needed to change one line to make the hover text include the category name (for cases where my font size was tiny). [...]

We’re getting a *real* snow storm for the first time this year. It reminded me of a litle tool I created last year when I first got my Blackberry. I call it PocketRadar.
There are two versions of it - one for the older devices with only 240×160 screens and one for the Treo and newer [...]

I keep wasting hours tweaking and re-writing my blog’s look-n-feel. No sooner do I get it working the way I like, that I go too far and then decide to start over with some other theme.
The most recent activity was to leverage a theme with lots of cool JavaScript. I wanted it to be flexible [...]

I fell out of the software developer track for a number of years. I was a strong (although not the best) C language developer and had some C++ talent but I shifted gears when Java took off at my company. Since that time, I have done mostly scripting based hacks and small tools as “brain [...]

While not technically a mashup, the theory is very similar - take two useful services and make tem work together with a minimum of effort - the result of which should be a better solution than the individual pieces.
In this case, it is also a brilliant method of marketing exposure.
Yugma Skype opens-up the door to [...]

I’ve been pondering the idea of desktop applications authored as mashups. the question becomes - what is the development environment ? You can run PHP, Perl, and other languages on a local machine but they really were not meant for that.  You could install Apache and Tomcat and have an HTML and applet environment [...]

Anyone who hasn’t woken up to Google’s plans to take over the world, needs to start reading a bit more. The latest “launch” has happened with Google making simple slide presentations over the web a “no brainer”. 
The presentation can be shared with everyone and any viewer can follow the presenter or take control of the presentation. [...]

Back in the 1990’s there was this idea of “network computers” - computers that did nothing without their connection to the network. The idea fizzled. Now we are on the verge of the “web computer”. Same idea but with better timing.
The emergence of Amazon S2 & AWS , Force.com, Facebook, and Google Apps & [...]

There are two answers to the question of “what’s the difference between RSS and ATOM ?” First, there is the technical answer. Second there is the end-user answer. I’ll start with the second.
For the vast majority of end-users today there is very little difference between RSS and ATOM. Both are used as means [...]

I’ve wondered what all the excitement has been about Twitter. It’s not new by internet standards and yet I had not used it. So, I gave it a whirl. I ended that joyride last night. I posted a tweet saying ” no thanks”. Here are my thoughts and experience.

Twitter has a very [...]