In my first job out of college, I went to work for a startup in Boston, Agents, Inc. They had developed some collaborative filtering technology that they applied to generate pretty darn good movies and music recommendations. I created my user account (‘bowtah’, account number 51066) on ffly.com late 1995. When I started, they were …
I decided a few weeks ago that my home page was getting embarrassingly old again. The last redesign was in 2002, so I redesigned it, focusing on making it both a place to see what’s the latest, and find an archive of things past. At the same time, I used some amazingly cutting edge technologies …
I’ve had a PSP for nearly three years now. I’ve gone through various stages of obsession with it. Usually I’ll get a new game and play it until I finish it or it frustrates me. Then my PSP will (literally) collect dust for a few months before I notice it again. Usually I bring it …
I have a certain coworker (who will remain nameless) who razzes me endlessly when I’m not in the team IRC chat room. It’s not that I don’t want to be, it’s because the software is too stupid to reconnect me. I’m in and out of meetings all day and when I lose my connection, my …
Dear Apple, iTunes is a pretty nice music app. I have all my MP3s in it. I even use it for podcasts. I have it installed on 4 computers. I’ve bought songs once or twice from the music store. I’ve never bought a music video. I’ve never listened to iTunes radio. I’ve never bought a …
I’ve been trying to find this video for a long time. It’s pretty funny even when I didn’t remember the punchline. 🙂
1. We’ve been the most popular news site in the world for about the last two years. We lead the other big sites (CNN, MSNBC, AOL) by about 10 million more unique users a month. That may be hard to put in perspective, but listen to this: our count of unique users is around 34 …
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Anne and I just got new cell phones and consequently new phone numbers. Why? Because we couldn’t resist signing up for this $30/mo 500 minutes/unlimited data plan with new phones from Sprint. Unfortunately we had to get new phone numbers (and a new contract). If you consider signing up for it too, let me know. …
Yahoo’s been cranking out websites since 1995. Google showed up in 1998 and after the turn of the century started to build out a lot more products, some of them search-based, some of them not. This got me curious about where these companies are respectively. Google is clearly the Search king, but what about in …
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I really don’t understand parents. When I tell other people that have kids that we’re expecting our first kid any day now, the first thing they tell me how “great” it is. The second thing they tell me, with silly grins on their faces, is their horror stories about when their kid was born, getting …