I’ve always wanted some simple ‘personal relationship manager’, i.e. the problem is that I’ve got friends and acquaintances I want to keep up with - but I am lousy at reminding myself to follow-up when I don’t see them regularly. I want a way to:
get a dashboard that shows me what’s new with people in [...]
Ok, so why are my friends and co-workers noticing my minor obsession about CouchDB? There’s a few reasons. First, I have a long-term unlove-affair with RDBMS. Why?
I started off working in the UNIX kernel (V6 anyone?) and there’s no stinking databases in there… just some filesystem stuff
After learning and using C, I jumped to Smalltalk [...]
I think that my recent purchase of the iPhone has tipped the balance in quandry I’ve had.
It goes something like this: I’ve wanted a better tool to manage my professional relationships (something I’ve been thinking of as a personal CRM). As a result, I’ve been looking for what Mac apps fill that niche - and [...]
So if vertical social networks become popular, then the horizontal problem becomes intestering, e.g. how to manage one identity across multiple services. OpenID provides authentication, but nothing beyond that. What about profile data ala Google’s form-fill?
How? Consider this - if an OpenID enabled set of tools existed to extend OpenId so that when you registered, [...]
Great idea - how to get TV shows, not how to see a bunch of randomly named bittorrent files. Another “so obvious after I saw it” moment. http://tvshows.sourceforge.net/
(thanks to The Unofficial Apple Weblog http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/16/tv-shows-automatic-torrent-finder/)
Nice tool, nice example of using Firefox as a platform, and nice example of how small ideas are proliferating: Firedoodle …
is a Firefox Add-On that allows you to mark up any page as if it was projected onto a white board. You can download the plugin at Firedoodle.com and if you register an [...]
A great audio program on experiential computing (IT Conversations: Ramesh Jain - Experimental Computing) and Ramesh’s related blog (Ramesh Jain’s Blog » Blog Archive » Events and paradigms) gives me some inspiration to on two important points:
Patterns in Oggidigaw - using the notion of events with their attributes of who, what, where (spatial), when (temporal) [...]
Some of the assumptions that drive shared information and the shared concepts that underly them:
There exists cognitive patterns (also called processes, structures, templates, metaphorical structures, relationships, frames, cognitive models, etc.) that are repeatedly used across across a variety of contexts, i.e. disciplines, domains or fields.
That there is no single body of knowledge that explicitly captures [...]
As with many computerized things, I’ve been frustrated with the commercial state of the art for software to manage information, especially personal information for quite some time. Let me provide some context to better explain.
While I’m often challenged to explain what I do, I can say it involves doing all sorts of actions on [...]