With The Band

Spam Filtering - The junk mail control, a Bayesian filtering implementation - sucks. Messages that I mark as not-junk continually get put in the junk folder. It just doesn’t work. With the rise of crowd powered technologies
Calendar Integration - Is a start, but it’s still pretty poor. The UI for it is ugly, when you […]

There’s a hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant near where I went to college in Maryland. I went there a few times with friends and family. It was a decent place to eat, however one particular trait of the owner drove me absolutely insane. He always addressed me as “friend” time and time again. I passed this off […]

Attended my first (as well as DC’s first) BarCamp. It was an awesome experience. Not only did I learn a lot, but I met a great crowd of people. It was fascinating to discover a small but thriving community of similar web-heads, and would kill to do the things some of them do. Who knows, […]

After finally coming out of my post-grad shell and seeing what’s out there in the working world, I found out about, and subsequently signed registered for, Barcamp DC. Barcamps are un-conferences, a concept where, instead of attendees shelling out a ton of cash to listen to a few highly paid people at a conference organized […]

This has been all over the major blogs today, so I am not going to blather too much about it, just give my opinion. Standing on one leg, Amazon now lets web developers add payment stuff to their site, so they can sell things.
To me, this is a true game changer, especially for entrepreneurs. […]

A network noone should ever have to use. Creepy.

Facebook Platform is awesome.
Late one night, a couple months ago, my girlfriend and her best friend called me up with an idea for a Facebook application (this was just after the Facebook platform, a way for people to make mini-sites that live within Facebook and are used/shared by people with Facebook accounts). I initially ignored […]

Awesome.

Search Engine Optimization has become one of the more recent hot topics in the web world, based around how high up a site appears in search results (namely Google). A lot of companies will pay insane amounts of money to make sure they show up. I believe that it’s best to leave it to organic […]

One thing I have found fascinating about the internet is that it is a way of bringing to light some of the most obscure and previously barely known artifacts. I saw this first on Amazon, which would carry not only the more popular books but also long-forgotten titles that you could not imagine were still […]