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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 weblo...

Everyone knows by now that the most visible feature of the iPhone’s recent software update is the iTunes wi-fi music store. When I first saw that, my thought was “ho hum”…I mean, I’m excited that A...

I’ve been using an iPhone for a while, and it’s definitely a whole new experience on a phone. I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit, but perhaps I’ll write more about that later. I have it connected t...

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...

Yowsa…this is a serious phone bill for a new iPhone user. I’ve gotten breakdowns like this from several wireless carriers - honestly, folks, I don’t need to see an itemization of every byte I’ve do...

Wow. I’m pretty much the last to hear about this, but it’s truly hard to believe. Virgin Mobile has an advertising campaign out at the moment, which uses photos from Flickr (Creative Commons licens...

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 Commodo...