New Blog Location
I've moved my blog again. The new URL is http://kurt.karmalab.org/ . I've moved it away from the codehaus because I'm not really involved there anymore, and I've been broadening my horizons from the...
View ArticleInterruptions
Jeff Nolan writes here about all of the interruptions that we have during our work day now. I thought it was mildly ironic that his entry popped up in my Newz Crawler alert window at the same time an...
View ArticleWhat's the big deal about Sphere?
I keep reading about the Sphere beta on a number of different feeds that I read. Now, I'm not on the beta test for Sphere, but is it so radically different from what's already available that it...
View ArticleMicrosoft vs The World
The blogosphere is abuzz over the leaked Microsoft memos from Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie that are found here. I've read the memos, and I can't help but wonder if Microsoft can really win a battle where...
View ArticleThe Google Copycat Effect
Om blogs here about the general trend lately of one company copying another, copying another, copying another, ad nauseam. This most likely began when Google came along and looked at a field that was...
View ArticleExtending Riya
I've been seeing a lotof talk about Riya over the last few days, and I must say that it looks pretty cool. I'm not sure if Riya is going to have open APIs to their service, but if they do then I hope...
View ArticleeBay APIs Free
Now that the eBay APIs are free, I'm betting that we'll see a sudden surge of innovation in that area.Extra points to the first person who builds a Google mashup that shows me where to buy from to save...
View ArticleRespect the Suspenders!
As I was walking home from work yesterday (and by home I mean the SF hotel that I've been residing in for the last couple of months) I heard a person loudly exclaim to the group of people he was with,...
View Article101 Ways to Write a Business Plan
As I've been looking at how to write a business plan lately, I've been reading everything I can about the matter and the only consensus I can find is that there is no consensus. Today we've got another...
View Articlediggdot.us
This pretty much encapsulates my morning browsing habits. Best Thing Ever. (via TechCrunch, of course.)Sombody needs to make a tool where I can just feed in a number of feeds like this and come up with...
View ArticleFroogle Local Will Not Work
I was just reading the New York Times Article (via CrunchNotes) about the new Froogle Local shopping service and the following seems like an awesome feature:Additionally, local merchants will be able...
View ArticlePlazes is Cool
Just saw a post about Plazes over on HorsePigCow and I have to say that it's a pretty awesome app. I can never seem to figure out where any of the people that I consult with are at any given time, and,...
View ArticleTen Rules for Projects
Evan Williams posts his list of rules for web startups here. These rules aren't just for startups though, they should be taken as general guidelines for building any sort of software. Almost every...
View ArticleThe Train Has Already Left the Station: Google and RSS
Richard MacManus on Read/WriteWeb:Watching Google and RSS is like watching a high school student experiment with a chemistry set. Meanwhile Yahoo and Microsoft are busy inserting RSS into their...
View ArticleBusiness Games
Mark Cuban has posted a bunch of links to blog entries of his about how he succeeded in business and they're all good reads.The best link by far though is The Sport of Business. It hits it spot on...
View ArticleHotdog!
Alarm:Clock has an article on a new tech company that has Yet Another Biometric ID Mechanism (YABIDM), but the interesting part of the post to me was:We once worked in an office where lessons were made...
View ArticleWhy I Don't Work for Big Companies
Hopefully I never end up working for a company where people are irritated enough with the way management is doing things to inspire something like the Mini Microsoft blog. When your own employees...
View ArticleThe Problem With Ruby
I've been writing a lot of Ruby code lately, and I think that my friend Ryan best expressed the biggest problem that I've seen with it so far:The problem is that I get something done in two lines of...
View ArticleEnd of the Year Ideas
You can tell it's getting close to the end of year, as the tech ideas that normally seem to come fast and furious seem to have tapered off a bit, and my day is a little more boring because of it. This...
View ArticleThe Illustrated Long Tail
As I push more and more of my personal data out on to the internet, I see more and more examples of the long tail in my own activities. Today's illustrated example is my Last.fm top artists chart. It...
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