Archive

May 2005

46 posts

  1. Defensive Domain Name Purchases

    Politicians who neglect to understand the impact of Web addresses have regretted it. It is truly amazing that so many politicians (or rather their staff or campaign staff) fail to see the value in spending a few hundred dollars a year protecting their "brand identity". The above article in the boston globe refers…

  2. Penguin Day: Calendar applications

    So as i mentioned in my initial reflections on the conference, calendaring was a hot topic of discussion. These seem to be the three calendaring applications that folks were talking about. Upcoming.org (i love it, and think that there are so many applications for using it more, think dynamic blog calendars, tagging events to pull…

  3. Penguin Day: On Speed Geeking

    Gunner, you sadist, 10 rounds of speed geeking? I was ok through round 6. For those who don;t know what Speed Geeking is, the basic idea is that a bunch of conference attendees get 5 minutes to demo their "coolest thing" which might be a product, a tool, or a technology. The rest of the…

  4. A new Paradigm for the tech conference

    I have touched on this before, but let me lay it out here. Problem: Tech conferences are geat opportunities to network, but formal sessions get in the way of hallway conversation. The gut response to this would be to get rid of the sessions and just allow people the venue to have informal discussions. But…

  5. Penguin Day: Initial Reflection

    I got hom a little while ago from Penguin Day (I actually walked home from the post conference watering hole on 33rd and 3rd ( about 2.5miles and 4 minutes according to google maps now, since i wasn;t walking along the FDR, it was more than 2.5 miles and even if i were driving the drive,…

  6. AP and CNN on Tagging

    Well tagging has hit the big time with this AP story picked up by CNN . It is a pretty good primer on tagging, and mentiones the potential problem of tag polution and hijaking. this is the best line in the pice Tagging is fundamentally about tapping the collective human wisdom, rather than relying on a…