The Wiki I remember reading about the wiki so many years ago (mid 90s?). I wish my college Technical Writing classes would have included them. Wiki would have made the class far more interesting to those of us that were also CS majors, which accounted for a good 80%. Only in recent times have I… Read more »
Category: Technology
Podcasting + Shoutcast = A Media Revolution Waiting To Happen
I recently had lunch with someone that got me thinking about video blogging. I still cringe at the word “blog” so “vlog” is no better. I’m a little more comfortable with the term podcasting. Maybe I’m starting to fall for all that trendy mac advertising. Anyway, podcasting is catching on. Generally speaking, a podcaster wants… Read more »
Gmail Autosave: Redux
Back around March of this year, Vito Miliano created a greasemonkey “Autosave” script for Gmail. It was a great idea and solved a very annoying problem. This morning I logged into Gmail and noticed the “New! Auto-save and more” link in bright red at the top of the page. Turns out, Gmail went ahead –… Read more »
My idenity server idea is terribly flawed.
My identity concept was horribly flawed. I’m a little surprised I overlooked something so terribly obvious. As such, I suddenly realize what aspect of the identity problem OpenID serves to solve so nicely. I wanted to have a “home” system… and when logging on to a community, you would pass your login, password, and home… Read more »
Identity 2.0
I’m a huge advocate for the creation of a new generation of online identification. Dick Hardt of Sxip explained the current identity scene very well at OSCON. You can watch the entire presenation of Identity 2.0 right here. I’m was blown away at with Dick’s presentation. It was both informative and entertaining. He’s given me… Read more »
Isogame – The Virtual World Based Forum Interface Experiment
Several months ago, I started a project I called Isogame. Using bits of programmer art, art from old projects, and art borrowed from google images (apologies to artists) – I built a very basic isometric map with an html interface. Using some custom forum software I’d developed for another project, I connect each tile to… Read more »
News Corp Buys Again – Fox owns gaming community network IGN
News Corp must have a plan. Either that, or they’re still operating off of that mentality that drove so many investors to waste cash during the bubble. Recently I mentioned that News Corp picked up Myspace for $580 million. This time, News Corp purchased the massive gaming community network IGN. The price tag on IGN?… Read more »
Domain Squatters: Are they getting worse?
Is it just me, or is it getting to be impossible to secure a reasonable domain name? I recently had several of my domains expire. Some were live projects that I eventually stopped caring about, others were projects I never got posted and gave up on. I was considering revisiting one of these projects and… Read more »
Bringing Communities Together: Under One Login
Problem: I frequent several different communities on a regular basis and I must maintain an individual profile on each of them. Solution: One login to rule them all. The monolithic dark lords of all that is digital tried to solve this problem; but they have failed… Users did not want to sell their private lives… Read more »
Beyond the Blog: Blogging Alternatives
Blog Blog Blogidy Blog I suppose I’ve been a blogger longer than I realized. In August of 1996, I started making weekly web updates regarding the progress I was (or wasn’t) making on a computer RPG project. Back then, we just called them websites. Actually, to be more accurate, we called them Web sites as… Read more »