While I have had a fairly successful and varied career, one of the things that I never did was complete my bachelor’s degree. When I dropped out of Virginia Tech back in 1997 the economy was quite good and there were plenty of jobs so my lack of a degree wasn’t a huge issue. Over […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My computer is getting old, and it struggles with running things like Second Life and Joost. And if I want to have iTunes and Second Life and Joost open at the same time..yeah…it performs really badly. I’m running an old AMD Athlon system that I built myself a few years ago. Whenever I decide to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t really updated much here lately as I’ve been super busy. I did end up taking a new position, and it’s in down town DC so getting used to my horrible commute is taking some time. It’s an exciting job, however, and I’m hoping it will work out for the long run (it’s a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not well advertised on their web site, but Salesforce.com offers a free Personal Edition of their salesforce automation software. I signed up for an account a while back because I was curious what the package was like. Salesforce.com gets a lot of ink in the trade press for their innovative software as a service […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been playing with Joost a bit over the past week, and I stand by my initial impressions. I like their technology, and the interface is not bad once you get used to it. The problem is they lack compelling content at the moment. It seems to me that Joost either needs to get more […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wired has a piece covering some apparently prototype software that allows a single 2D image of a face to be extrapolated into an accurate 3D model. There’s a video showing the software in action and I highly suggest taking a look. I agree with those who commented that this technology cries out for application in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve updated my home phone number on my Plaxo card to that of my new Grand Central number. So if you know me and are interested in trying out Grand Central from calling-party perspective, feel free. If you know me and do not use Plaxo, this is my subtle way of suggesting you get with […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was reading this post on the O’Reilly Radar site and learned of a relatively new startup Grand Central that is changing the rules of telephone numbers. Basically the idea is that you sign up with Grand Central and get a new unified telephone number. Then through their web site you “link” it to your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It looks like I am about to be changing jobs again, and this reminded me that, yes, I am a Plaxo user. Plaxo is a company my friend Sean Parker helped start that is a distributed contact management system. Basically the way it works is that you register with Plaxo and your contacts do as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was reading this entry on Wired about Adobe launching the Apollo public beta (see Adobe Lab’s product page here, press release here) and I thought I’d check it out. Basically Apollo is a cross-platform runtime environment for application development. Superficially it’s a similar idea to Java, but instead of developing Apollo apps in a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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