Landscape Management Article on Blogging
Just a quick note and link to my recent article on blogging in Landscape Management Magazine. Blogging is the newest way to connect with your employees. InfoTech: Blogging ShareThis
View ArticleAmazon’s Mechanical Turk
Have you ever wanted to earn a little extra money on the web? Amazon.com has a solution for you. It’s called Mechanical Turk. It’s a system where people answer simply questions for pennies. The...
View ArticleAmazon’s S3 Web Service – Online Hard Drive
It think we’ve hit a new milestone in the web’s development. Amazon.com has announced their Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service. We now have low cost, “in the cloud” data storage. What does this mean to...
View ArticleYahoo Messenger Adds VOIP
Yahoo has recently added VOIP (Voice over IP) capabilities to it’s Instant Messenger client. Now you can carry on world wide PC to PC voice calls for free. There are two interesting items to note from...
View ArticleOnline Calendar, Google Style
If you haven’t heard already, Google just released an online calendar web application. It has all of the slick interface items that you have come to expect from Google. But was makes this offering...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Software Industry
Dan Farber wrote and interesting blog entry (ZDNet Between The Lines) recaping Software 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. He highlights some interesting themes in software industry and how we...
View ArticleThe SEOmoz.org Web 2.0 Awards
For those of you interested in the cutting edge of the Web 2.0 movement, check out the Web 2.0 Awards from SEOmoz.org. It provides a pretty good cross section of the types of solutions out there. My...
View ArticleThe Internet as an OS vs. Virtual / Online Desktops
I’m been thinking a lot lately about Web 2.0, web services, and client / server applications moving online. And it occurred to me that Internet could be seen as one big operating system with the...
View ArticleAnother Great WebOS Article
Richard MacManus with ZDNet posted another great article on the WebOS market, calling for Google or any one of the small startups in this space to become the next Linux. Wishful thinking you may ask?...
View ArticleApril CTO Breakfast
I attended Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast this morning. As always we had a good discussion on all things technology. I found a couple of interesting ideas from this meeting. First off, Nathan Conger from...
View ArticleThe IM Generation
There is an interesting article at AlwaysOn on what is being billed as the “IM Generation.” Born between 1980 and 2000, this next generation is living in a 24/7 online world where IM is more important...
View ArticleFoldera Online PIM
Foldera is a new personal information manager (PIM) that is completely online. Complete with all of the usual Ajax goodies, this service is currently in beta. This might just be the perfect solution...
View ArticleSkype Offers Free Calling
Online Voice over IP vendor Skype has just announced free calling with in the US and Canada until the end of the year. This is an interesting move and further commoditize the long distance market. But...
View ArticleASCII Maps and Poly9
Have you ever wondered what happened to the ASCII art phenomenon on the 70s and 80s? Look no further than ASCII Maps from Canadian based Poly9 Group Inc. ASCII Maps is a mashup between Google maps and...
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Google Spreadsheet, What will MS do now?
Good news for the web 2.0 world today. Google has released (via limited beta) Google Spreadsheet, their answer to Excel on the web. While it might not be as feature rich as people would like, that fact...
View ArticleWindows Live Writer
My blog entries as of late have been a little sparse. I’m sure that it has something to do with my attempt to get a life and relax. I’m also thinking it has something to do with the post editor thaqt...
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ChaCha.com a Google Killer?
What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com For a search engine ChaCha.com provides a clean...
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Imagine your data on a Swivel
Swivel.com is the YouTube for data. Interesting business model: 1 part Google Spreadsheets, 1 part YouTube, 1 part graphics. I guess in this day and age you can take just about any idea and put it on...
View Article8 Great WordPress Plugins I’m Using
One of the first things I realized was that tylerwhitaker.com was pretty light on plugins. I have been running Akismet for spam (and it works great.) But the rest are new. If you know of any better...
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SocialPaywall.com and the Kynetx Platform
So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a fun stealth project. And now it’s time to open it up to a little wider beta audience. So, I’m now introducing…. SocialPaywall.com - Get paid for...
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