Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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21 Feb 2005Marc Canter says that
All bloggers owe their heritage to the original Gonzo.
[here]
Amen.
The subjectivity and raw opinion in HST’s work colours my writing to this day. it is difficult for me to write professional, technical documents without wanting to launch into a preternatural screed (two words I learned from the Good Doctor) on the opic I [...]
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19 Feb 2005Read a Trademaerk Attorney’s opinion. [here]
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19 Feb 2005Scoble and I have had our differences of opinion before, but I agree with him on this one. [here]
SmartTags == AutoLink == B-A-D
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18 Feb 2005SOGrady notes that a number of the large bellweathers in Tech are announcing hiring. [here]
I have noticed that, after a 3 year absence, my inbox is seeing slow trickle of recruiters, mainly those looking for low-hanging fruit in tech-support and junior development positions. *YAWN*
If recruiters actually took the time to read my resume, instead of [...]
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4 Feb 2005Port80 Software in San Diego is a team who is dedicated to improving Web performance.
However, they just recommended Maxthon, which uses the MSIE engine. [here]
I can’t buy into that. It still uses a core browser which has been patched but has not evolved since 1999. Until Microsoft releases a browser that can handle HTTP Pipelining [...]
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4 Feb 2005Ok, so I have both Kanoodle and Google Ads on my site. Total Revenue this far: $0.
I am not completely sure what the hoopla is. Then again, I get less than 200 hits a day. Guess that could be an issue…
Russell Beattie is back to Google. What’s your opinion?
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30 Jan 2005Because when I read technology blogs, I stagger across elitist comments like this.
I happen to need abstractions, because I do not plan to re-write the MySQL connector for every app I build.
This blog has had the shortest stay on my watchlist — about 3 minutes.
Got Flamed in the trackbacks to this post, but my opinion [...]
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11 Jan 2005So far, YDS seems to be ok. A bit of hacking to get it to look into PST files (this should be a default!). However, I am re-building the indices (not indexes, please!) because the file search was having issues finding the string "doc". But my Outlook e-mail was all searchable (except for the PST [...]
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23 Dec 2004Remember how Comcast Re-IP’ed the entire neighbourhood this week? Well, I can measure the Sears hompage again. For those who don’t know the story, you can read more here.
The ethical question that I face is whether I should or not because I can. In the Web performance business, the companies that I work for have [...]
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7 Dec 2004I wanted to point you to an evangelist of the good kind that Scoble found — "Obi-Wan", the Prowler Knight. They come in all shapes and sizes.
One of the directors in our company keeps saying how impressed he was by a certain product evangelist he saw at a conference a few years ago. He sings [...]