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Fight for every inch of simplicity

People ask why not compromise and make it slightly more complicated for the user to gain a convenience for the developer. I say NFW. I fight for every inch of… Read more »

Another brick in the cloud

Got a couple of interesting calls this morning on the development of rssCloud. The idea is picking up steam. I'm liking it. For a lot of these things this is… Read more »

Tasted even better than it looks

Sampled at Sushi Ran in Sausalito.... Read more »

Four stories

In 1997, the tech press knew three stories: 1. Apple is dead. 2. Microsoft is evil. 3. Java is the future. In 2009, the stories are: 1. Heard a rumor… Read more »

OPML for Twitter, Day 2

Great reception for yesterday's rollout of OPML for Twitter Subscription Lists. Some thoughts from various people. Kevin Tofel at jkOnTheRun asks if it makes sense to output not just the… Read more »

Anil's belly laugh

This should be fun. An experiment. It's just a test. I put up a web service that returns a Twitter subscription list as OPML. You should be able to import… Read more »

Align the interests of: 1. Users and 2. Investors.

Last night Marshall and I did a flash call-in version of the Bad Hair Day podcast to discuss the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook. It was the first time I… Read more »

Scoble, your blog still loves you

Just got off the phone with Robert Scoble. I've known him for a long time. He's not so much a Natural Born Blogger as he is a Natural Born Evangelist… Read more »

Enough with shortened URLs

Enough! With every shortened URL the foundation of the 140-character-sphere gets shakier. Now we know that when Twitter switched from tinyurl as the default shortener to bit.ly, they cut off… Read more »

tr.im announces shutdown

I've done a lot of building on the tr.im url-shortener, as have quite a few other developers. They just announced that they're shutting down. It's not clear what the timeframe… Read more »