While social networking allows everyone to communicate, collaborate, and all that other good 2.0 buzzwordy stuff, it also allows your friends to blackmail you. In this first chapter of Why I Hate the Interwebs, I bring you an old Halloween photo from 2002 that my friend Rachel decided to so graciously post on Facebook. I Hate the Interwebs [...]
If you are a fan of Minesweeper, you will love this. Thanks to Matthias for passing this along.
In honor of the Vendorprisey post last week about facebook's geographic diversion, I had to post this YouTube video below. It really did have me LOL. I must admit, I'm really not sold yet on the value of Facebook for the Enterprise, but I do think it was pretty brilliant to open it up as [...]
I often wonder if there are actually people who buy things from the ads that they see on websites, blogs, etc. I really don't think I have ever bought a single product from this type of advertising model. This seems to be the current way to monetize users, so I suppose there is someone out [...]
Last year, a big eye opener for me was watching Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. More recently, I have been reading Thomas Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It's sad and depressing to watch, even in the span of my own lifetime, what we are doing to our precious planet. In a world [...]
Last week, I was introduced to an application called feedly by one of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars, Anshu Sharma. From the home page, it's described as "…a firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience." In Anhsu's blog post, his focus is on the new service called feedly mini; however, [...]
A lot of people ask me if the the lake that I live on in New Jersey freezes in the winter. It does indeed freeze solid, and it's really cool to see the different winter activities on the lake. Some things you would expect, and some others that are a little less known. I have [...]
Last year, a small group of some of my fellow enterprise developers decided to form a small group known as the Enterprise Geeks. Right now the group members are as follows: Craig Cmehil Dan McWeeney Ed Herrmann Rich Heilman Thomas Jung This week we have launched the new site where we will be maintaining a [...]
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application. You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, [...]
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