Month: February 2009

  • Fun With Programming Languages

    Tonight, a Facebook thread got a little out of control after I posted a status update that I was “mentally bankrupt.” It was a long day working on client work – a project that is just about done but past due. After some commentary by Facebook friends, we got to writing little scripts that would…

  • The Rules for Entrepreneurs

    Venture Files founder and former curator, Steven Fisher, wrote a series last year that remains one of the best of its time. Even though he has moved on and is working with Network Solutions, I think it’s as important now (if not more so) than it was last year at this time. This is a…

  • Own Your Travel Itinerary with TripIt

    In October 2006, a new service appeared on the web that promised to make it easy to manage all the fine travel details of a trip. As a frequent traveler, I signed up for TripIt in November of 2006, shortly after they launched, and have never looked back. The concept is really simple. A traveler…

  • Facebook Rescinds Their New Terms Of Service, Reverts to Old

    Yesterday, we talked about the huge terms of service nightmare that Facebook created for itself. They noticed the uproar, fortunately, but did little more than assure it’s user-base that they had our best interest in mind. At the time of yesterday’s blog post from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the new terms of service remained in…

  • Twitter is Life

    Everyone loves Twitter. Some research reports seem to indicate that it was the number one most often used word on Twitter last year. That would be 1 in every 3 words written on Twitter are about Twitter. A sampling of these tweets would be: Listen to our podcast about Twitter 10 Reasons I Love Twitter…

  • It's February 16. Do You Know Where Your Facebook Photos are?

    On February 4th, the largest social network by all accounts, Facebook, quietly updated it’s terms of service to grant itself an unending and irrevocable license to use all content ever uploaded to its service. This is fundamentally not all that out of sorts from what most services do when licensing user content, but their lawyers…

  • Proper Form Applies In 140 Characters or Less As Well

    Twitter is often written about, often used and as often abused. Everyday, thousands of tweets fly by me at break neck speed due to the volume of people I follow. Many of these short form messages in 140 characters or less are eloquent and precise. Others constitute butchered English short form that demonstrates a lack…

  • Vetoing FeedBurner

    I’ve been a fan of FeedBurner for a long time. Going all the way back to the early days at b5media when they were a good company. Then they sold out to Google, and I warned any who would listen exactly who they would become. It was denied, though (most likely in good faith), and…

  • Nuke the Nukers (and other benefits of social media to Government)

    Editor’s Note: I had a chance to meet a fantastic guy recently. He has very clear and vivid, if sometimes offensive, thoughts on the web space we live in. He’s actually a little crazy, so I thought he would make a great addition to the Technosailor.com family. Lou P. Nuts has a distinguishable voice and…

  • Give and It Will Come Back to You

    This morning, I caught wind of a very sad story. b5media blogger Cheril Vernon lost her home and pets to a devastating fire. As we all know, pets are like family members and with the economy the way it is, this is not the time to lose everything. Over on Twitter, my former boss, Jeremy…