web 2.0
Platforms and the rule of three
Back in my old gig, I wrote a feature-length story entitled “Top 20 IT Mistakes” and wrote a followup blog post in which I referenced the excellent Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass, writing:
The book contains 55 facts ranging from the people-specific (”Fact 1: The most important factor in software work is [...]
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us!
Yes, it’s true as of a few minutes ago — del.icio.us just joined us at Yahoo! See Yahoo! Search blog and the deli.icio.us blog for the scoop.
Welcome Joshua and team!
Syndicate Conference next week
The Syndicate conference is next week in San Francisco, and I think it’s well worth checking out. Last year, the conference was an interesting mix of traditional media types who wanted to know what all the RSS/blogs/syndication fuss was about along with the folks who were creating the new world. This year, Doc [...]
We’re hiring: join one of the most innovative teams at Yahoo!
If you thought the Event Browser was kick-ass like I did, here’s your chance to actually work with the team that built it. Ravi Dronamraju is adding to Team Edison (a team he put together) and just sent this job description over:
Do you have what it takes to build, prototype, innovate? Are [...]
First impressions of Measure Map from Adaptive Path
I got my invitation a few days ago to try out the alpha release of Measure Map, the blog stats service from the folks over at Adapative Path. After a few days of using it, I’m generally impressed. The quickest (but also crudest) way I can think of to describe the service is [...]
Flock and WebOS
Now that I have Flock, I decided to test it out a little. My first task, of course, was trying to post to my blog. That’s what you’re seeing here (please forgive some of the wonky formatting). I was hoping that the blog tool would allow for offline posting a la ecto, but that doesn’t [...]
Web 0.1 head-to-head: 37Signals’ Backpackit vs. Gmail in Lynx
Last night, I decided to not-so-carefully run a couple of Web 2.0 apps through the old-school Web 0.1 Lynx browser to see which would work best, or work at all. It occurred to me that in the Web 2.0 world, Lynx might be thrown onto the trash heap of history, made useless by [...]
Web 2.0 and Punk Rock
Microsoft, Salesforce.com, and Web 2.0
David Berlind wrote recently about Marc Benioff’s (CEO of Salesforce.com) response to Steve Ballmer’s recent proclamation that Microsoft is going to give Salesforce.com “a run for its money.” In in an e-mail to the press, Marc wrote:
Microsoft’s failed enterprise software strategy has let the industry down. We have competed against them in the CRM [...]
Site to watch: ProgrammableWeb.com
I just subscribed to the ProgrammableWeb.com blog, described by the site’s creator (John Musser) here:
So what’s the point of this site? Although still euphemistically ‘in beta’, the goal is to create a home page for Web 2.0 developers. Content to include news, reviews, comparisons, and examples. Formal APIs, unofficial APIs, and accidental APIs are all [...]