Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Google: Oh No You Didn’t!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Today the tech community (at least all of my friends) are abuzz with news of Google’s new Code Search mechanism. Now, this is just cool. From this day forward when I’m struggling with some poorly documented, hard to use, or even private API, I should be able to just type it into Google code search […]

My Podcast Habit

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Podcasting totally, I mean totally works for me. It’s gotten to where I almost never use my iPod for music. I play music through my home stereo speakers, but when I’m on the train, at the gym, or walking somewhere, I listen to podcasts. I’ve noticed that people either totally get or totally don’t get […]

Ten Free Ideas

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

I meant it when I downplayed the value of ideas in my critique of the My Dream App contest: “Ideas are practically free. They run like flood-water through every conceivable channel of the internet.” In the month since I wrote that article, those words have been the most controversial. It seems most people still think […]

Lawful Prey

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

I wrote somewhat extensively about software pricing, just before choosing a number for my then “nearing completion” product, FlexTime. The price I settled on was $18.95. I thought it would only be fair to report back with some data on the sales of FlexTime, after a month of availability at this price. You’ll recall that […]