This weekend, I invited Christopher, the Master in Fermentation Sciences, over to walk me through brewing up a batch of Bavarian Hefe Weizen from Northern Brewer. While I’m sure the extract kit didn’t take full advantage of his expertise, we had an excellent time and I picked up a few tips1 and got a better …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Thinking About iPhone Web Apps for the Enterprise
Apple’s initial iPhone application model (build a decent website) is brilliant. Websites are easily the fastest, most compatible, most maintainable, most popular, way to create software applications. Once Apple supported adding specific website’s to the icons on the iPhone’s home screen, you’ve got the equivalent of applications on the Palm Treo – with internet access …
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Unexpired Potential – Domains I Own
Inspired by Rex’s unused domain list, here’s my list of yet-to-be-released projects: BlockByBlog.com CoffeeHacks.com Dashcaster.com ExpiredPotential.com Limble.com LunchForBrains.com Nusability.com Unlistened.com PodcastCalling.com RedBallThankYou.com SLAReporter.com Update June 3, 2008. A few more I’ve picked up since we last talked: DroidWarehouse.com Kernest.com (Launched July 17, 2009) MSGCTRL.com NeuPost.com Update October 21, 2008. Just added: BroadcastCulture.com Update February 8, …
First Crack 109. Tumblon.com’s Jonathan Dahl
Jonathan Dahl and I discuss his latest project – Tumblon.com – a parenting website focused on development milestones and easy sharing with friends and family. Listen to Tumblon.com’s Jonathan Dahl [9 min]. A more detailed write-up and some screenshots over at Minnov8.com
What Andrew Baron Should Be Selling: Following
There’s lots of chatter today about Andrew Baron auctioning off his 1500 Twitter followers. As of this writing, the auction is just over $500. Standard ad-based media play: aggregate eyeballs and sell them off to the highest bidder. Yummmm. Eyeballs. “This stunt may spark some copycatters, but it is essentially meaningless.” – Stowe Boyd I …
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Un-Blog
When I talk about Cullect to people publishing feeds, I very consciously don’t use the word ‘blog*’. Primarily because bloggers blogging blogs aren’t the only people publishing online. Almost everyone publishing online publishes a feed. No matter if that publication contains text, audio, video, software, or something completely different. Cullect works the same if you’re …
Towards a Richer Environment
“…the way we can best improve our environment is to make everyone rich enough to afford it (something that is already happening)…” – Will Franklin In 1989, I watched, stunned, at James Burke’s PBS special “After the Warming”. That was my first exposure to environmentalist propaganda; oceans rising flooding Florida and Indonesia – hundreds of …
Twitter: 10% Conversational
I ran my twitterings through TweetClouds today. Check out all the ‘@’ signs – indicating people that I’m directing messages toward, either in a reply or a “I think you’ll dig this.” A full 10% of the tags.
Google AppEngine: More About Google Labs than You?
There’s a long history of tech companies developing there own applications because it’s cheaper long-term than licensing, especially for core applications like: email, calendaring, text processing. I’m confident Apple employee use Mail.app, iCal, and iWork in-house and those apps are cheap or free for the rest of use. Same for Sun and StarOffice/NeoOffice. Same for …
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Free & Open Is Its Own Lock-in
A decade ago, one of the very first places I found that offering free websites gave everyone access to the same images directory. You could upload your own images, but then everyone else could use them as well. Goofy, questionable, but free. I’ve been hosting with Joyent for more than 3 years, purchased 3 different …