A project I’ve been working on for some time has finally launched: an upgrade to the social news site called Propeller.com (Official blog post). I don’t normally write about work on my personal blog just because I’m already writing about it on corporate blogs and the like, and also because I like my blog to [...]

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So I saw a post on TechCrunch today about a partnership between BlogCatalog, which is a cross between a blog directory and a social network, and SezWho, which is a distribution comment reputation system.
I signed up for BlogCatalog (reminds me of when I listed my blog on Technorati), and there was an optional signup [...]

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Mashable reports that Marcien Jenckes, who I had the pleasure of working for at AOL, has landed as the CEO of Voxant.
Voxant is “a resource for website publishers who want to embed quality, licensed news content on a wide variety of topics”.
Good luck Marcien!

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Great article in The Journal of Defense Software Engineering written by 2 NYU PhD’s. Found it via subscription to Joel on Software, here.
I received a B.A. in Computer Science from Lehman College, a member of CUNY (City University of New York). When I first declared my major and started, computer programming courses were taught in [...]

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Earlier this month, I posted my thoughts on Wil Wheaton’s book, The Happiest Days of My Life.
Reading that book inspired me to go out and get his earlier book, Just A Geek. And I’m glad I did. I added the asterisk to the post title because Wil is not “just a geek”, as Cory Doctorow [...]

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So I’m shuffling through the Sunday Times, and come across this article. I feel like I’m in a time warp from the last internet bubble, with people talking about dumb Internet terminals with all apps being drawn from “cloud computing”.
Um, so the point of the article is that Google Docs is so rad, that it [...]

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This post by Tim Berners-Lee talks about the Semantic Web and social graphs. Being the creator of the World Wide Web, Tim is someone I listen to.
An example social graph:

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So MomWonder, KidWonder and I packed up and moved out of NYC and into beautiful Westchester County this past week. The move went reasonably well (I would recommend Moishe’s moving company in the NYC area), and we had Con Ed turning the lights on btw 8am and 12pm and Cablevision btw 11am and 2pm. Con [...]

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So about 3 weeks ago, my buddy Chris posts on his blog that he’s looking for alpha testers for a new website he’s building.
This morning, I’m reading my normal RSS feeds, and come across this post on Lifehacker.
I love to see Entrepreneurs in Action. Good show Chris!

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This is a good talk Andrew Keen gives at Google (not sure if its at the Googleplex). He discusses his book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. I heard that he had criticism of where I work, but he didn’t mention it during the talk. I might have to [...]

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