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Cloud Wars — A New Hope

July 31, 2009

Con­sumers strike back against cor­po­rate over­reach in the cloud-based economy.

Safari: Apple’s New Platform?

June 12, 2007

Yesterday’s announce­ment of Apple launch­ing it’s Safari web browser for the win­dow plat­form was a bit puz­zling and I wasn’t sure of what to make of it at first. So I decided to read more about it and then install it. Of course, day one is always amus­ing. First, it’s clear that the secu­rity claims are not fully […]

Danger Dooming Itself

March 19, 2003

I was excited to hear that Dan­ger would soon open a devel­oper site. The license agree­ment seemed OK except for the fol­low­ing: 8. Prod­uct WARRANTY Invalid. Devel­oper Acknowl­edges and agrees that the down­load of any soft­ware (includ­ing licensed tech­nol­ogy) onto or tam­per­ing with any t-mobile side­kick or other dan­ger hip­top device shall inval­i­date the lim­ited product […]

First Post on Usenet

December 16, 2001

Google recently posted a large por­tion of the Usenet archives. As far as I can see this post may be the old­est trace of my pres­ence on Usenet.

Internet.com Acquires Earthweb’s content

December 27, 2000

Today, Earth­web and Internet.com announced that Internet.com was acquir­ing all of Earthweb’s con­tent prop­er­ties. For me, it’s an inter­est­ing announce­ment because I was involved in the build­ing of both prop­er­ties. When I left Internet.com in 1996 and went to Earth­web, I was in charge of build­ing Earthweb’s prop­er­ties into some­thing com­pet­i­tive with Internet.com. At the time, there were […]

Succesful Web Content

February 28, 1999

Cre­at­ing suc­cess­ful con­tent sites is easy. Here’s how.