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Tag: internet
The reason why I canceled my Basecamp account is that I’ve lost faith in 37 Signals. I’m not sure if it’s arrogance from the growth and success of their company, but their glow has fizzled. I’m still a fan of some of the simple functionality of their applications… but the applications as a whole don’t seem to be changing the landscape as they had done in the past.
heh. i actually like 37signals stirring the pot. they are overblown, but the sheeple need more kicks in the groin.
I’ve just added preliminary 9-block IP identification feature to Daily, my blog server to enhance commenter identity beyond name and website. Basically, what I am doing is using a privacy protecting derivative of each commenter’s IP address to build a 9-block image and displaying it next the commenter’s name.
creates a unique graphic per ip. people get excited about the look of their ip 🙂
They received 50 candidacies, from which 30 came from Hotmail-directions, all of them erased as they entered. The reason: You can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.
nor yahoo mail.
It is sad when you realize that the average MySpace page is better designed than your average newspaper site
when will these people realize that their survival rests on their printer-friendly page?
my favorite paper is trying to reinvent itself. very smart, as i would expect from them.
the sooner the music industry dies, the better
Time Warner cable is like some kind of throwback to the early days of broadband, when it was rare and exotic and barely worked.
and those morons are a monopoly here
So we end up in 2007, 9 years after SEED was created for Korean users, and one legacy of the fall of Netscape is that Korean computer/Internet users only have an Active X control to do any encrypted communication online. Korea will only get beyond this problem by 1) applying Korean laws on open standards to the certificate authorities, 2) reassigning new certificates which work with open web standards to all Koreans, 3) reprogramming all Korean websites to support 128 bit SSL which will allow for a heterogeneous marketplace of operating systems and web browsers. This is a herculean task and thus Korea stays hostage to Redmond.
wow, i did not realize the south korean internet is completely fucked
The truth is, scaling from $5-$50M is not the toughest part of a new venture – it’s getting your users to pay you anything at all. The biggest gap in any venture is that between a service that is free and one that costs a penny. I can’t think of a single premium service that has achieved truly viral distribution. Can you?
why paid services are mostly dead, at least in consumer markets
Twitter is Continuous Partial Presence, mostly made up of mundane messages in answer to the question, “what are you doing?” A never-ending steam of presence messages prompts you to update your own. Messages are more ephemeral than IM presence — and posting is of a lower threshold, both because of ease and accessibility, and the informality of the medium.
good analysis on twitter. i haven’t tried it yet, but maybe i should? looks like a big time suck
Gregor J. Rothfuss 