Internet
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about the world on Usenet. A few years later, on ancient computers at unsociable hours, I met friends I still have today. We “spewed” about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned photos to CDs and mailed them to far away lands with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really…
How to make Facebook “business Useful” – Business 2.0
Alas where the rest of you spend your time enjoying the tiny pleasures of life my mind drifts away to the thoughts of how to make better what is already great!
It got me thinking of what facebook is missing if it would want to become a more business orientated tool and take away the stigma [...]
Beating Google?
Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a cool beer while listening to Frank Sinatra and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Better search ? Too subjective. Better monetization ? After the fact. Better User Interface ? Will we know it [...]
