Category: Essays and posts
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Spolsky: Windows Live, Marimba Phenomenon
Joel Spolsky had a similarly disappointing experience with Windows Live as I did. He calls it the Marimba Phenomenon: The Marimba Phenomenon is what happens when you spend more on…
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Windows Half-Live?
Windows Live looks like Microsoft’s tardy and half-baked answer to My Yahoo! It’s a customizable portal, with placeholders for weather and news and feed subscriptions etc. According to Bill Gates’…
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Podcast Recommendation: The Word Nerds
If you’re a word nerd or, heck, if you just speak or are learning English, you’ll enjoy The Word Nerds, a weekly podcast by two brothers on topics like The…
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Blogebrity
Now that’s funny. The Blogebrity site is an entry in this contest to create an effective viral marketing site. I dunno, maybe this kind of thing is even instructive to…
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The smallest flying web server in the world
linuxdevices.com: Researchers at the University of Essex are using Linux and tiny embedded computer modules to build fleets of unmanned aircraft that fly in flocking formations like birds, while performing…
Martin Remy 