April 2008 Entries
Not sure why I didn't mention this sooner, but if you are so inclined, you can find me on Twitter here. What is Twitter? See the Twitter in Plain English video.
This is my favorite video of 2008 so far.
Makes me so happy to be involved in actually building and experimenting with "what's next" in the long-term meaning of the phrase. And that my bets placed on technologies that require huge amounts of human input are the right ones (eventually).
UPDATE: It appears there is an issue in Internet Explorer and the video. If you don't see anything, here is the direct link: http://blip.tv/file/855937/
Jeremy Horn, aka the Product Guy interviewed Tim and I about Notches.
website: Akismet
Overview: 90/100
Indispensable
Review:
I used to battle spam here on this blog and was able to fight the good fight on my own for a while, but it got to be too much and when Akismet was released (and even before it was supported in Subtext) I signed up and configured it. Like any good service of the kind, I basically forgot about it. I thought for sure I mentioned them on this blog already, but search says no.
Akismet uses a variety of techniques to fight spam and works fantastically well.
I didn't realize how well until it was pointed...
So much is happening in Notches-world it is hard enough just to keep Emily (my fiance) updated, let alone my loyal blog readers. I don't even know where to start. The sites we are building continue to get refined. We just added our glamour shots to the "Meet the Team" page for instance. Tim wrote a killer post called Innovation, Disruption and the Economics of free which was picked up by the NY tech blog CenterNetworks. What a multi-talented guy that Tim is. Life right now is a tangle of meetups, meetings, coding, researching, planning, talking,...