http://ghostsofmylife.com Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following is a snapshot from LinkedIn. It brought a wry smile to my face... ShareThis http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/08/14/timeout-geek-humor/ Hello readers... I just wanted to give a quick update. My Twitter account of course has been constantly updated (thank SMS) on these things, but me and the wife are currently on a cross-country drive, moving to the Bay Area. So hold tight readers. I will eventually be resuming the ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/07/18/been-a-while-eh/ Marc Andreesen has a blog now. Read it why dontcha! :D He started out a little slow but hit his stride in no time at all. Yes, I'm complimenting the arguable father of the modern web. So that means I'd like to comment on several of ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/12/the-andreesen-files/ Not to belabor the point, but... thought some of you out there might want to know this. Safari 3 installs perfectly well in Windows 2000 as well! Guess Apple doesn't "officially" support it for obvious reasons; however: peep the screenshot, below: ...and I have to admit that after installing it, I ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/11/one-last-safari-thing/ Now that's it been some time since the WWDC keynote (and my initial post), I've had some time to think. Specifically one piece of information passed me by, the first time, which sheds light an interesting strategic move Apple has made. Developers had been looking to see how they would ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/11/safari-everywhere/ So that was definitely the surprise of all surprises at this WWDC keynote. Steve Jobs introduced a version of Safari which will run on Windows (XP and Vista, to be precise). Now, after all the time I've spent with WebKit in the last few months (the Apple browser engine project ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/11/safari-for-windows-wow/ Let's start out by talking about the original web social space: Friendster. In the Summer of 2003, it was the site to be at, and arguably its success heralded the coming "Web2.0 Revolution". See, Friendster, for you young 'uns, was the Grandmother of the social media space. She was ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/04/facebooks-home-run/ In the grand tradition of deep-blog-linking, I'm going to point to a post on the Reforming Project Management blog, which discusses in brief the policy of Four Seasons Hotels for hiring personnel... and some of their "keys" to a successful operation. It struck me mainly because a lot of the focus ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/06/01/the-power-of-nice/ In the last post I lauded CBS for their cunningly clever purchase of last.fm. I think it's an extremely wise move, and speaks volumes about the intelligence behind their Internet strategy. Now, in the other corner, The Register UK reports on eBay's purchase of StumbleUpon: "eBay makes another baffling buy". ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/05/31/and-in-other-news/ TechCrunch reports that last.fm has just been bought by CBS for $280 million. The article's comments include the usual warnings about frothiness. However, I'd say the price is cheap and rather justified considering the time, efforts, and most importantly, the breadth of what last.fm offers... it's rather unique out there ... http://ghostsofmylife.com/2007/05/31/lastfm-goes-network/