Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING
9 Sep 2007In today’s Boston Globe, there is an article discussing why Facebook went to the Valley instead of staying in the Boston area (article online).
Having now lived in both areas for nearly equal amounts of time, I can tell you that there are substantial differences between them. People from Boston may violently disagree, but I have found [...]
In: Software| Technology
22 May 2007I have been using Skype as a landline pretty exclusively for the last 6 months, but the quality of the service has been degrading rapidly. Today, I called Samantha from the office and she said it sounded like I was calling from inside a tin can.
So, on a recommendation from a co-worker, I am giving [...]
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
In: Life
17 Jan 2007I spent my entire life escaping from Golden. It’s a much different place, 20 years and one massive ski resort development later.
But, as you got on the Trans-Canada Highway to leave, hopefully for the last time as a 25 year-old grad school dropout, you looked over your left shoulder, and saw this.
[Photo: raarky]
An eerie beauty…the [...]
In: Blogging| RANTING| Technology
10 Jan 2007MacYawn
Now, shut up and go back to the interesting stuff.
Thank you.
In: Skype
14 Dec 2006Around the blogs, there are a number of folks talking about Skype making people pay for SkypeOut calls.
Guess what? Everywhere else in the world, you have always had to do this. So I don’t understand what the problem is.
I know that the QoS will improve on SkypeOut once the feeloaders are gone. Free is good, [...]
In: Life
8 Dec 2006Once again, thanks Hugh.
Yesterday, I read Anne Zelenka’s post on ROWE at Best Buy. I was heartened to see that this idea was getting mentioned again, and that it was getting front-page interest from Big Media.
On a lark, I forwarded the post to my director and VP. Their responses frightened me. They were written in management-ese, and indicated [...]