As I teased earlier in the week, Rich has been cooking up Connect People Search for your iPhone. Last night, it went live.
This isn’t an iPhone app because, as we all know, there are a few issues preventing an app that requires behind the firewall access: 1) we can’t yet connect to VPN using the [...]
It’s pretty hard to keep up with all the stuff Google does. There are several blogs I know of whose only purpose in life is to cover Google.
Anyway, a couple noteworthy Google announcements recently caught my attention. So, I figured I share them and collect your thoughts.
Google Flu Trends
Google.org announced Google Flu Trends recently, which [...]
I’ve mentioned Portland-based Shizzow a few times in the past in posts about geo-aware services and networking.
Shizzow has been open to Portlanders only until this week, but Tuesday they added the Bay Area. And now today, Seattle is also supported.
Full disclosure: I know all the principles that make up the little Shizzow operation. They’re all [...]
So, I now have about five or six people sharing their Google Reader shared items with me, which is good.
These feeds function a lot like Twitter for me, i.e. the items in there are sometimes interesting and tend to tell me a bit about each person. For example, Paul shares a lot of gadget stuff [...]
Here’s some more iPhone goodness, and a teaser to whet your appetite.
Fake Calls
Thanks to Floyd for this tip. I started out to review three fake call apps, but quickly realized there are a lot more than three. Eleven apps matched the keyword search “fake caller” in the App Store, and only one didn’t fit the [...]
Friend of the ‘Lab Dan McCall sent this post my way last week.
The issue in question is whether your LinkedIn contacts could be considered the property of your employer, should you decide to part ways.
This is an intriguing question, considering:
LinkedIn’s self-described purpose as a “professional network”.
People use LinkedIn to keep track of their business contacts, [...]
Meg’s comment on my post about TiVo (note to self, add TiVo to iPhone as a topic that gets lots of comments) got me thinking about the best of the last 20. She said:
I have said often that Tivo is the best invention of the last 20 years, in my life it is equal to [...]
I love my TiVo.
Like pretty much anyone who currently has a DVR, I was interested, but skeptical before I had one. Skeptical not so much about the value-add from a DVR, but because of the rabid fan-ism exhibited by those who owned them.
Now, I’m happily one of those rabid fans. I’ve had TiVo for many [...]
Another pair of iPhone apps came to my attention today, making it four for the week, and it just so happens one is brought to you by Oracle.
Oracle Business Approvals for Managers
Steven Chan put me on to this one, which looks like an iPhone app that surfaces a lot of the worklist notifications EBS users [...]
I’m going to try an experiment on all of you.
Don’t worry, it won’t hurt, much.
I’ve just installed Panels, which is a newly launched beta service, on this blog. Panels adds, well, panels to your blog links. From their blog:
With the addition of panels to your site/blog your readers are given all the information about a [...]
I saw this post on RWW about Read It Later several weeks ago. I guess Read It Later has been around for a while; it’s a nifty little Firefox add-on that allows you to mark links to read later. Simple enough. Plus it syncs between multiple browser instances, allowing you to have a consolidated reading [...]
This blog continues to draw iPhone traffic, so here comes an iPhone post to keep you interested.
I installed two new iPhone apps today.
I Can Has Cheezburger
As I probably mentioned in the past, I tend to install apps, test them for a while, then remove them. Very few stick with me for very long.
Today, I found [...]
Mix is one year old today.
Seems like it’s been around forever, at least to me, but you’ll recall we launched it to very little fanfare at the beginning of OpenWorld 2007.
Mix didn’t really get much promotion at all until Marketing decided to solicit session ideas from the community for OpenWorld 2008 back in May. Over [...]
I found this nugget in Paul’s Google Reader Shared Items feed: “Get Satisfaction Launches Socialized Ad Policy“.
As previously documented here, we like what Get Satisfaction does, and even though ads usually put me right into a coma, my curiosity about how ads could be “smart” (from Paul’s note in Reader) overcame me.
Turns out it is [...]
Last week, FriendFeed added an IM feature, allowing you bring the information firehose into your favorite IM client.
I’m a fan of FriendFeed, but it’s very hard to control the noise level. Typically, each person you subscribe to has several streams of information, e.g. a blog, Twitter, Google Reader, etc., making the amount of noise significantly [...]
I had planned to do the Defrag recap in a single post, but it got really long. I guess my memory isn’t totally shot yet. So, this is part two of my Defrag recap. Part one is here, if you’re a glutton.
Tuesday
Tuesday was shorter for both Paul and me, as we had planes to catch.
After [...]
Looks like I got out of Denver right before a cold front came through, dropping the temperature significantly. Not that the weather is all that great here in Portland.
So, Paul and I were at Defrag Monday and Tuesday, as was Bob, who has done a good job of recapping in near real time.
Overall, I enjoyed [...]
No, I’m not talking about the US election, which I will be so happy to see in the rear view mirror.
I’m talking about conferences. Paul and I are at Defrag in Denver Monday and Tuesday. Paul is giving a session this afternoon, and though I haven’t seen the slides yet, it’s going to be something [...]
As Joel announced yesterday, Carl’s family will be holding a memorial service to celebrate his life Thursday, November 6 in Riverside, California.
In lieu of flowers the family has set up a Memorial Fund in behalf of Carl’s daughter, Destany. Donations to Carl’s Memorial Fund can be by domestic or international wire transfer or by sending [...]
I dumped Windows for good back in July and have been running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on my Dell since then.
I love Open Source, and for the most part, I’ve enjoyed running Ubuntu. I’ve found it to be on par with XP for stability and superior in usability. Before you quibble with the stability comment, [...]
