Tweet Cookies store information about us and our surfing habits (and they are yummy). One of the secure things about a cookie is that you can only access it within the web site to which the cookie belongs. So if you are visiting www.kinlane.com I can put a cookie on your computer, but only I [...]
Tweet Right now I use 3 main ways to discover new information and technology: Google Reader Google Alerts Twitter I have other ways I find information, but these are my 3 primary sources currently.
Tweet As a chronic entrepreneur I love the process of taking businesses from idea to start up. I enjoy hearing ideas, even if they never go anywhere. This process really speaks to me: The HackFwd Blueprint
Tweet I’m getting a little annoyed by Microsoft using my name in their new products. A while back they released their mobile technology and platform targeting the youth, called Kin. (taking a pretty sweet domain name) Now today I’ve read that Microsoft will be renaming their gaming controller project Natal to Kinect. They haven’t talked [...]
Tweet I have evaluated a lot of event and conference web sites to see the best practices for how to market an event using social networks, social media and other related tools. Some of the better social media and leading edge event sites have some of the best examples. I haven’t seen one standard out [...]
Tweet What is Scalr? Scalr is software that creates redundant, self-curing, and auto-scaling clusters to run your website. Using EC2 and Cloud Computing. It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI’s for load balancers (pound, nginx, or Amazon’s load balancing service), app servers (apache, rails, others), databases (mysql master-slave, [...]
Tweet Living Stories are a new format for presenting and consuming online news. The basic idea of a living story is to combine all of the news coverage on a running story on a single page. Every day, instead of writing a new article on the story that sits at a new URL and contains [...]
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Tweet Over the next several months Google Buzz begin rolling out APIs for developers. Our plans involve full/read write support for updates with the Atom Publishing Protocol, rich activity notification with Activity Streams, delegated authorization with OAuth, federated comments and activities with Salmon, distributed profile and contact information with WebFinger, and much, much more. We [...]
Tweet It just drives me nuts that I can’t get good data access to my credit cards. I just want an easy download of ALL my credit card transactions. You’d think you could but Chase now B of A. You just can’t easily. Ok…I was able to download an easy spreadsheet for last year at [...]
Tweet Just came across a cool web application called Bundle that lets you see how people like you save and spend their money? You can use Bundle to compare yourself by age, location, income and household status. I love the tools out there that help us understand our money and spending.
Tweet Keep hearing discussion discussion on my social networks about whether or not global warming or global climate change is real. Does it matter? Isn’t the right question: Are humans negatively impacting our environment and are there things we could do differently?
Tweet Many projects I do in my spare time are purely for the exercise and learning experience. I have been developing a tool I am calling social budgets. I am very political, but I get frustrated when I don’t fully understand what is going on at a state and federal level. I like to have [...]
Tweet I was just playing around with a new visio diagram to help me keep evolving a Ubiquitous Oriented Architecture. (Click to Enlarge)
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Tweet I wanted to reintroduce everyone to Google Charts. If you haven’t heard about it, it is a quick and easy way to create chart from data sources. It is so easy to use. I think it is a tool that more people need to hear about and understand how they can easily use to [...]
Tweet I just realized a funny thing. I use 3 different browsers on a daily basis now. I use Firefox for my personal sites and web applications. I use Chrome for my work sites and web applications. I use IE 8 for watching movies, TV and Media. I generally have work and personal in separate [...]
Tweet Just finished reading Activism 2.0: Creating Casablanca in Copenhagen, The Fresh Air Center by Chrissie Brodigan. It is an interesting look at what happened (or didn’t) in Copenhagen and more specifically at the Activism 2.0 techniques of TckTckTck’s Fresh Air Center. I love the technology side of just about anything and social activism + [...]
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Tweet Google Feed Server is an open source Atom Publishing Protocol server based on the Apache Abdera framework. Google Feed Server provides a simple back end for data adapters, which allows developers to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a database. Google Feed Server also provides the Feed Server Client [...]
Tweet IT tends to scoff at cloud computing. But obviously, there’s a fear factor, too. If IT is too caught up in other projects to have the resources to launch some new initiative, the business side may threaten to use a cloud service instead.
Tweet I was going through the different areas of my Google Wave research this evening. It was time to learn more about the Google Wave Federated Protocol. I just haven’t had enough time to keep reading on the subject. So to update my research: Google released their open source version of the Google Wave Federation [...]
Tweet I was playing with Google Wave tonight. I am curious to see how I can use it. I keep thinking about using Google Wave as a content management system (CMS). I am starting with the basics. First I started a new wave and filled it with some dummy content. Then using the Google Wave [...]