May 2005

MIT Enterprise Forum events

May 25, 2005

I attended two recent events sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum (MITEF). The satellite branch in the Washington DC area held a Talk With Angels event and an event called StartupLab. I presented my company at the angel event and was a spectator at the latter. First, let me say the MITEF is a tremendous [...]

Google’s Personalized Home Page Shows Promise

May 20, 2005

I tested Google’s new personalized home page features today and I definitely think there is great potential. I currently use My Yahoo as my main “home page” and portal to stocks and news (not as a feed reader though – I still feel FeedDemon is the best RSS reader out there). To be honest though, [...]

Newsgator buys FeedDemon

May 17, 2005

Well, the news is spreading the morning – Newsgator has bought FeedDemon. This looks like a win win situation for Newsgator, Nick Bradbury, and consumers of both products. As nick mentions in his blog, one of the biggest feature requests he was as yet unable to provide was synchronization between multiple computers. This was one [...]

The evolution and history of PDAs

May 16, 2005

It’s almost embarrassing if I think about the number of PDAs and similar gadgets I’ve owned over the years. And sadly, I’m still looking for the perfect one. My BlackBerry comes close, but still not quite there. Evan Koblentz has a great article chronicling the evolution and history of PDAs starting with pre-PDA devices and [...]

Is ChangeThis dead?

May 11, 2005

I’m wondering if ChangeThis is dead? There is a tremendous amount of great content on the site contained in their “manifestos”. I see no update since February and in the blog biz, that’s a lifetime ago. I hope they start publishing again as I was impressed with what I had read to this point.

Self heating coffee in a can

May 11, 2005

The first line of this New York Times article sums it up best: “…some innovations are like Post-it notes: you didn’t know you needed them until they were invented.” As a coffee addict, I always have an eye out for articles on coffee, specifically caffeine. I think I’m looking for pro-caffeine articles to use as [...]

Potential issues in new WordPress version

May 11, 2005

There looks to be a few minor issues cropping up with the new version of WordPress. I’m in no rush to upgrade and I’d advise anyone considering it to research all the potential issues before doing so. I suspect most of these minor bugs will be cleared up over the next week or so as [...]

Xbox 360 revealed

May 10, 2005

Engadget has a post on the new Xbox 360 that is as yet still unofficially released despite Microsoft’s Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles last week. What’s really interesting is the 300+ comments on the brief post. I’d say there’s some interest in the new Xbox…

New WordPress version released

May 9, 2005

WordPress 1.5.1 was released today (via Matt Mullenweg and Dougal Campbell). Full details at the WordPress development blog.

Poorly designed web sites

May 9, 2005

BusinessWeek may have one of the worst designed web sites, in terms of user readability, that I’ve come across recently. The placement of animated ads in three areas above the fold, immediately makes me search for the “printer-friendly version” link. It’s the only way I can read their articles. Not exactly the desired behavior. Take [...]

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