Here goes another rant, but this time about privacy. Everyone worries about what is collected about them from big companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. Back when I first started using the internet, it was a time where you NEVER used your last name for anything. In fact, few even knew my first name [...]
Don’t look now, but the internet user has an increasing amount of influence over how or what is consumed online. Early on, only the geeks held some influence, but it is quickly moving towards the masses. Geeks Force Legal Issues to Forefront Roll the clock back to around 1997, way before the technological wonders of [...]
I just heard that there is a bill in the senate that will force all online retailers to pay sales tax, regardless if they operate in that state. This is wrong for a few reasons: Online retailers are at a disadvantage to traditional stores because of shipping fees. Local stores usually do not have to worry about these [...]
This post might bite me in the ass one day, but what the hell right? Running your own start-up is not easy. In fact, its insanely frustrating for many reasons. Try telling ‘regular’ people your idea over and over and for it to just go straight over their heads. Either that or they’ll instantly think [...]
This is just one of those random thoughts I had. As a programmer, everything I do involves taking complex problems and breaking them down into small pieces of logic. I look for the simplest and most effective answer to a problem. Pretty cut and dry, right? But after being a programmer for almost 10 years now, I’ve realized that [...]
The term “social web” sounds great. A lot of people use social websites like facebook, digg, twitter, reddit, etc. Every year more and more social websites create buttons for websites to allow users to vote, like, digg, tweet, etc for their site. While that sounds good at first glance, after a closer look all they [...]
I read a post today at c|net saying that Scott Ambrose Reilly is moving on from Amazon.com’s music division. I of course had no idea who he was until I read the article. Now that I know who it is, I have to say thanks for all he has done. 3+ years ago, 98% of [...]
I was doing my daily rounds of sites that I visit and noticed that The Big Lead had a post about Lost. My hope was that they were going to make fun of the nonsense and explain how many times they laughed out loud. Like when Hurley was doing yet another slow-motion scene. But of course not. [...]
By now everyone has heard of the iTunes commercials and the phrase “There’s an app for that”, but how much staying power does it really have? Just yesterday Google released Google Voice as a standalone web application that can be used in the browser. For some of us, it’s hard to imagine why this might [...]
Very recently Mashable created a post on their site indicating 5 reason why “Internet Explorer 6 Must Die”. I was so inspired by their post that I decided to create 5 reasons Mashable is bad for the Web