2008

May

daymakermovement

Feb

Ohloh and Ontology Social Networking

I love this concept. Ohloh is a social networking site that is focused on the users and developers...

User Research Social Networking Service

Imagine a site where companies could identify products they are bringing to market, and potential...

Distributed Social Networking - Update

It looks like this idea is well underway, after all! Very exciting - check out FOAFRealm, and their...

Global Warming, and Standards...

Up until recently, in my mind, I had a picture of how International Goverments would work toward...

12 places to intervene in a system.

Read a neat article on The New York Times called the...

Nonpartisan Social Network - Continued...

To avoid appearing too complicated, you would want to market each plugin separately. That is to...

Nonpartisan Social Network - Continued...

In fact, why stop there? You could imagine similar needs for blog posts and all sorts of other...

Nonpartisan Social Network (Idea)

One of the major reasons that DNS is so successful, and that OpenID seems to be catching on, is that...

Thinking Tools

Thinking tools, in increasing order of complexity and utility: Freeform text (Pen and Paper) Paper...

12 Places to Intervene in a System

Jan

Wizzard.tv iPhone Podcatcher

Mindhabits.com

I like to call this site the ‘smile game’. They claim to be backed by years of...

Guide to Arguing Less and Saving More

I imagine I could write a neat book about this topic.

Content Recommendation Engine

Believe it or not, it already exists. It’s funny what you’ll find when you go looking.

Idea - build a recommendation engine for...

If FLOW takes off, perhaps I should build a recommendation engine. Hmm.. I wonder if one already...

iTunes Rental and Mean Girls

For Tara’s birthday, we rented Mean Girls from the iTunes store. The movie was actually...

Needs - FLOW site

I could really use a nice embedded document viewer for drupal. Scribd would be a perfect solution...

Programming Practice

I’ve been asking myself, “what do I want to build?” for a long time. Thing is,...

IBIS & Compendium

I recently rediscovered Compendium. It’s such a wonderful brainstorming tool. The interface...

Idea

How about building a spaced repitition system into a browser plugin, so you can take vocabulary...

National Museum of the American Indian

Isn’t she cute?

Washington, DC

We’re waiting to board a plane to DC this morning. The lines weren’t too bad. ...

MIT Course Picker

I saw the MIT course picker again today. It’s so refreshing to see such an easy-to-use,...

Embedded Web-applications

Something big is happening. I stumbled across OpenSam this morning, and then later on received a...

Experimenting with "Collective...

Been rewriting some examples from this book in Ruby. It’s pretty fun. The code snippets from...

Synergy

I had a crazy day today - full of meetings, no breaks. I had one meeting where we discussed...

Cherries, almonds, cottage cheese

Doesn’t that sound like an awesome breakfast??

Ideas - What Color is Your Parachute...

WCIYP has loads of exercises to help you figure out just what you want to do with your life. A lot...

Career - degrees

I’m considering: Masters of Information Science Management of Information Systems MBA …

iPhone Update

Just got the new iPhone update. I’m psyched to try out the new features!

Elgg + Jumpcut vs. Ning

Well, it was a nice idea to try to use Elgg for the Chinese social networking site. However, having...

Jumpcut

Had some trouble with the Jumpcut uploader (it consistently failed, no error messages, nothing) on a...

Jumpcut

I’d forgotten about Jumpcut. That site generated a lot of buzz a while back, I remember. ...

Private Video Test

Vimeo handles privacy through external, embedded videos nicely. I wish there were some way to share...

Easy way to privately embed videos in...

For a Chinese Professor here, I’m researching an easy way to embed videos in Elgg without...

Watching MacWorld Keynote

I was actually able to watch some of the keynote, streaming, from...