Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Twitter

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 21:04 No Comments

I think it’s actually gotten to the point where Twitter Whale jokes are kind of stale, but I still found this funny…
Twitter’s routing structure + it’s abundant downtime = These Results in the Firefox Smart Location Bar

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Microsoft Giving Development Suite Away to Startups?

Friday, November 7, 2008 14:56 No Comments

This new strategy from Microsoft is interesting and out of character for them. As a technologist who is partial to startups and had the (mostly unfortunate) experience of working for Microsoft for a short time, I had to comment.
I can’t imagine this gaining MSFT much market share. The key, early personnel at startups [...]

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Change.gov

Friday, November 7, 2008 11:34 1 Comment

The Obama campaign did an excellent job using the web as a tool to connect with people during the campaign. The campaign used their presence on the web to mobilize and organize supporters, offering personalized sites and tools and information to help supporters help Obama. For instance, while McCain’s website pushed empty messages [...]

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Obligatory First Tech Post - Vasco

Thursday, October 23, 2008 19:34 No Comments

So, I admit I feel obligated to get a tech post out here to get my site navigation working properly, but…
Kudos to Relevance for releasing a tool that looks cool. Vasco is billed as a route explorer for rails, but is basically an out-of-the-box tool to manually test REST APIs in Rails apps.
I have [...]

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