Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Since August of this year, I have been exploring the insides of my mind in greater detail. If you read this blog regularly, you are pretty likely aware of the fluctuations in my mood, and the rationality of my behaviour.
If you get the chance, find and watch The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive hosted [...]
In: Life| Technology
8 Mar 2006I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
In: Gutter Helmet
6 Oct 2005When I look at my logs, I am always astounded by the items visitors come to read.
The one posting that I am most proud of is this one, where I do not sing the praises of Gutter Helmet.
b2evolution only maintains local hit logs for 30 days. In that time, there is a serious pattern appearing.
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In: smp
5 Jul 2005I recently switched all of my phone services back to Verizon. Today, I got a phone call from my former provider, MCI.
I have never experienced telephone slamming before, but “Tiffany Johnson” from MCI exposed me to the seedy side of the telephone market. I know why MCI is slamming departing customers: they need to get [...]
In: smp
5 May 2005George, this does not mean watching the shareholders heads spin, like in The Exorcist.
And acquisitions? George, your staff is not even comfortable walking across the street to get some BBQ at Armadillo Willy’s or a coffee at the Bridgepointe Starbuck’s, because they figure when they come back, a new name will be on the building [...]
In: smp
21 Mar 2005It is interesting working in a post-bubble company, watching the companies on the edge of the newly expanding bubbles of search, Web services, blogging and social networking start to try and find ways to link and grow together.
Ask, after buying Bloglines, gets acquired by IAC. Yahoo acquires Flickr. MSN has Spaces; Microsoft buys a file-sharing [...]