Viral App Distribution with Google Wave

May 30, 2009

Amidst all of the coverage of Google Wave this week, I have not seen mention of its significance for software application distribution. In short, waves come with optional code content (like attachments) that run inline with the user’s approval. The first time a user sees an extension or robot connected to a wave, they “install” [...]

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5 Reasons Why Twibes are Better than Hashtags

May 11, 2009

Twibes Twitter groups help people with common interests find each other on Twitter. The first question an experienced Twitter user will ask when seeing Twibes is “Why do we need Twitter groups when we have hashtags?” Before Twibes, the best way to communicate about a certain topic was to use hashtags. Hashtags are words prefixed [...]

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CSS Link Color Sample Code

February 10, 2009

Here is the CSS required to change the color of a link. If you are trying to figure out how to use CSS to change link color, this is the code you’ll need.

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Quotes from Seth Godin’s “Tribes”

January 3, 2009

My favorite quotes from Seth Godin’s book “Tribes”

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Rails ActiveRecord Tips

December 24, 2008

After using ActiveRecord for a while, some questions keep coming up when performing operations that are more complicated than the standard create, read, update, delete.

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Mac Software Recommendations

November 28, 2008

I’m making one final pass at cleaning off my hard drive this morning before installing OS X Leopard. As part of the process, I’m making sure I have license keys for all the software I’ve purchased over the last year or so. Here is a list of the software I have purchased that I recommend. [...]

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What is Twitter?

November 22, 2008

I’m proud of having introduced Twitter to a prominent Seattle investor a couple years back (he hadn’t heard of it – and wasn’t looking to invest in it). If you still aren’t on the bandwagon, here is a cool video explaining it. Today, I met the creator of this video. He has built a business [...]

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The Quest to watch Hulu on TV with an HD DVR

October 2, 2008

The world needs a comprehensive internet connected set-top box.

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StumbleRead Feature Ideas

August 5, 2008

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been trying to prioritize the requests I’ve had for StumbleRead. Thanks to everybody who has provided feedback. 1. Support for “Hide” (as defined by FriendFeed) 2. There is a bug when opening articles (for example from the New York Times) where the article takes over the StumbleRead frame. I’m not 100% [...]

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Kausay Wasi Clinic – Real Magic in Peru’s Sacred Valley

August 2, 2008

I wrote previously about my trip to Machu Picchu when I visited Peru in May. Breathtaking as it was, it wasn’t the highlight of the trip. The highlight was seeing the work of the team at Kausay Wasi Clinic in Qoya. My father in-law has seen hundreds of patients with the team there over the [...]

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