I had the pleasure of seeing Josh Holmes keynote CodeStock Saturday morning.  His presentation, “The Lost Art of Simplicity,” was very well done.  Very broad topic, but very applicable to likely everyone in the room.  Certainly I took away many good points.  In some ways, it’s a lot of points that we *know* at an [...]

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Just saw on TechCrunch tonight that Justin.TV has taken a first step towards DVR functionality in their player. Good to see it, and I just felt like posting that I did call this out as a need last fall :)  It’s not quite what I was hoping for just yet, but it sounds like they’re [...]

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I’ve wanted a way to record cell phone conversations for *years*.  With the proliferation of smart phones, you’d think we’d have this by now, but it’s still not a feature widely available (and, reportedly, blocked by some device manufacturers).  So, to scratch my own initial itch, I’ve put together a service to allow me to [...]

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This was a very brief demonstration of a sample Twilio app.  They have some other interesting demos - I suggest you take a look if you’re interested in learning more.  Apologies for the slight hiss/buzz on the noise.  This was a last minute recording decision, and I didn’t play with sound levels or anything like [...]

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I wrote this over on TechCrunch but felt like it deserved a home of its own here. 
I’m tired of hearing about ‘inventory problems’ that hobbled the Pre’s launch.  Palm had an excellent opportunity over the past 6 months to engage developers and the rest of the community to gauge demand and modify production [...]

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Just saw a presentation on ’semantic web’ at our local user group, and some examples were about Amazon.  Not related to semantic web specifically, but I got to thinking about a couple things Amazon could do to enhance my experience and/or their bottom line.
First, when I buy something for someone - indicated by shipping it [...]

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I’ve recently soft-launched a new document management service for insurance brokers.  The service allows brokers to set up document distribution sites for each of their clients, with a private log in for each client.  It currently includes basic download stats for documents for each client.
This was a service initially set up for one local client, [...]

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Just woke up this morning to news that Oracle is buying Sun.  After cursing myself for not having bought some JAVA last week when it was in the 6 range (pre-market now at 9.10), I started thinking about what this might mean for MySQL.
About a year ago, Sun purchased MySQL.  Although a lot of hooha [...]

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I’m looking to put together a mastermind group to meet with on a regular basis.  The purpose will be to encourage and support each other in our business pursuits.  I’ve read about the idea around the net a few places, and have heard Napoleon Hill talk about them in “Think and Grow Rich”.  Hill’s version [...]

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So, as an update to my earlier QVC entries, I was contacted by QVC tech support today.  Apparently the president, Mike George, or at least someone in his office, was alerted to my problem, and Eileen in customer care contacted me.  She set up a conference call with Johnathon and Christy (hope I’m getting their [...]

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