Why knowingly breaking standards may be the way forward.
Is Techmeme myopic?
I’m a big fan of TechMeme, a web aggregation service that provides, at a glance, a few of what’s being discussed in the technology-focused part of the blogosphere. It has…
Why the Boo.comeback makes sense
There has been much discussion lately, most of it negative (you can read more comments on Technorati), about the comeback of boo.com and once again, I find myself on the opposite…
Standards as social contracts
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I…
Adobe acquires Macromedia
This morning’s big news is that Macromedia is being acquired by Adobe. Reading through the announcement, it is hard to say whether this will come to pass or not, as…
2005 Predictions
Looking ahead at 2005
The day I broke Gmail
Like many other geeks, I’ve gotten a Gmail account but unlike most people, it took me less than 48 hours to render unoperational (and this time, it’s not a joke).…
2004 Predictions
What will 2004 look like?
Google Ping
Google should create an infrastructure for quicker indexing
Compression, Glorious Compression
I added the XML files and QuickTime movies to the list of things that are now compressed for this site. Expect and even faster TNL.net experience!