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Entries from January 2006

Ajax Sugar Coated Bubble Gum 2.0

January 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Couldn't agree more. Had to copy it here cause of the mention of AJAX and KoZmo. From this TechDirt article: There's been lots of talk about the possibility of “Bubble 2.0,” which (so far) appears to be taking a lot of ideas from the original dot com bubble, and using dynamic HTML to make it […]

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Steelers On Their Way To The Superbowl

January 25th, 2006 · No Comments

I haven't said anything this year about the Steelers and I don't want to jinx anything by saying much here other than I'll certainly be watching the game closely.

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AJAX / JSRS / Google Maps / Real-time Network Monitoring Part 2

January 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Well, I noticed that my prototype example as described in my previous part 1 post was broken as I suspected would happen at some point. So, I decided I would spend a few minutes and modify it to use the Google API. The API wasn't available when I first started putting this together so I had […]

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Ning.com (was 24 Hour Laundry)

January 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

First time I heard about these guys since my post in June. Looks like nothing much happening there according to TechCrunch. Not like I'm going to look further but made me chuckle this morning.

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AJAX Fairy Dust

January 18th, 2006 · No Comments

I'm getting really really tired of seeing everything hyped up and sprinkled with AJAX fairy dust. I've been tired of it for about 8 months now but haven't brought myself to blog about it so here it goes. If your only claim to fame for your website is the fact that it is using AJAX, […]

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Everything Old Is Nuvvo Again

January 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Here is yet another e-learning website with nothing new except a bit of AJAX fairy dust sprinkled on it, some Web 2.0 wording and claims of breaking new ground. It amazes me that it will (already seems to be) get the kind of hype they are looking for. I don't want to completely rip apart Nuvvo as […]

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Feed2Podcast

January 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Well, looks like there is a service now to do this. I experimented with doing this over a year ago but didn't keep up with it since it was more of a manual procedure. I could have automated it but it wasn't really worth my time.

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Announcing Language Updates to KosmoBlog

January 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Another annoucement to the still unnofficial KosmoBlog: Introduction In response to market demand, multilingual capability is being added to KosmoBlog. In this first release three versions of English and Spanish are supported. The KosmoBlog Publisher Control Panel and the blog interface will be presented in the selected language. Location dependent fields, such as the date […]

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VoIP Silos

January 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Looks like Om is picking up on what I was complaining about back in July in his post here.

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Guy Kawasaki's Top 10 Venture Capitalist Lies

January 7th, 2006 · No Comments

Guy on venture capitalists lies can be found here. Might as well repost here: “I liked your company, but my partners didn't.” In other words, “no.” What the sponsor is trying to get the entrepreneur to believe is that he's the good guy, the smart guy, the guy who gets it; the “others” didn't, so […]

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