My office phone rings a LOT. And at least 50% of the time, the person calling is cold-calling me, hoping to sell whatever product or service they offer. And since the more enterprising of these folks at least glance at my blog before calling me, I thought I’d write some tips for them here. Be [...]

Sigh…I thought I could let this go, but I just can’t seem to. :-) As I wrote a few days ago, Facebook’s Beacon collects data from third-party sites, and associates actions on those sites (such as buying something) with your profile data on Facebook. They’ve now allowed you to opt-out of having this information stored [...]

Over the last month or so, Facebook has been making changes to how Facebook Beacon works, seemingly in response to privacy concerns. But none of the changes have addressed one of the worst parts of the problem. If this post from Dare Obasanjo doesn’t scare you, at least a little, then read it again: When [...]

As I mentioned, I’ve migrated my blog to WordPress. All in all, a pretty easy transition, but there was a lot involved. For the benefit of those contemplating such a move, I thought I’d write some notes here… Linux hosting. Up to now, I’ve done all of my hosting on Windows, and NewsGator’s data center [...]

So as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. But this time, I actually have an excuse. :-) One or two of you might recall that back in December 2002, I built my own weblog server. The reasoning behind this, at the time, was a mix of being fed up with my previous [...]

I’ve often found online surveys vaguely annoying…but I just received 3 emails in the last 2 days to please fill out a survey. One I filled out, and the other two I did not. But based on all this, I have some suggestions for those of you who might see fit to survey your customers [...]

Brad Feld wrote a couple of days ago about his first computer, which was an Apple II, with a whopping 64K of RAM. Kind of brought back memories for me…The first computer I worked on was a Commodore VIC-20. How I did it I can’t remember…but when I was 14-ish years old (1983 or so?), [...]

Wow, seems like everyone is using Twitter here. Not one to be left too far behind, I am now too. :-) Find me at http://twitter.com/gregr.If you track me down, I might give you a cool demo of some stuff that’s not released yet… :-)

Daniel at Red Sweater (MarsEdit’s new home) has a post up talking about his web host, DreamHost, and some recent downtime. This reminds me of way back, in early 2003, when newsgator.com was running on a shared hosting platform, and the service became more and more unreliable.But what really led me to comment about this [...]

About a week and a half ago, TechStars launched. Basically, it’s a startup “bootcamp” – 10 teams will get a small amount of seed funding, work in Boulder, CO getting their new companies off the ground, and be mentored by a long list of smart folks. It’s the brainchild of David Cohen, and has some [...]