Update: April fools courtesy of Arrington and I got taken in bigtime. Ugh! Leaving the original post up as an ode to my naivete. 52 years ago in August 1958 the United States was so confident in our ability to provide clean nuclear energy that we put one hundred and sixteen men in a tin […]
March 31, 2010 | Tech News | No comments
“My machine overnight could process my in-box, analyze which ones were probably the most important, but it could go a step further,” he said. “It could interpret some of them, it could look at whether I’ve ever corresponded with these people, it could determine the semantic context, it could draft three possible replies. And when […]
December 16, 2007 | Tech News, Technology | No comments
Paciolan is managing ticket sales for the Colorado Rockies. Their servers were hit with over 1500 requests per second and it took down not only the Rockies ticket sales infrastructure, but all Paciolans other customers too. They claim to have been hit by a DDoS attack, but that’s something that’s hard to prove or disprove […]
October 23, 2007 | Tech News, Technology | No comments
I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments
Once upon a time I was a Facebook addict. It was an awesome way to reach out to people I haven’t been in contact with for years, share photos, update your status 80 times a day, etc. But Facebook apps are getting a little out of hand… …and I’ve always hated that friend detail feature. […]
July 28, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
I just got back from the Naked Truth panel and party in Seattle. It was loads of fun. I met John Cook for the first time in the flesh – he’s interviewed me about 3 times and we’ve never actually met. Also met Michael Arrington briefly. The panel was so-so. I think the general consensus […]
Rob Malda (aka cmdrtaco), the founder of Slashdot.org has written a rather schizophrenic piece on Slashdot about Alexa. He spends most of the article beating up Alexa, but is sure to include 5 links to the website in the article – two of them specifically asking people to install the Alexa toolbar. A while ago […]
July 23, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
A friend in the UK sent me this. The number of searches for ‘facebook’ in the UK as just overtaken the number of searches for ‘myspace’. This has a history of being an excellent predictor and it’s showing that myspace is going to get beaten up by Facebook – at least in the UK market.
July 18, 2007 | Tech News | No comments