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Category Archives: Ideas
Pieces of Blog
Joshua Schachter of Del.icio.us fame on how the different parts of a blogging system could be decoupled and run off specialized web applications: authoring by desktop apps, storage of raw posts and hosting on Amazon S3, templates by WordPress, feeds … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Editorials, Email, Ideas
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From database of intentions to database of actions
In 2003, John Battelle opined that Google was essentially a “database of intentions“. The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result. … a massive database of desires, needs, … Continue reading
Who will archive when you die?
So you blog, post comments, use Twitter, post photos on Flickr, videos on Youtube, talk with friends on half-a-dozen networking sites, and yes, send and receive tons of email. Which is all very fine. Until the day you die. What happens … Continue reading
Posted in Editorials, Ideas
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The Kindle presents an Amazon Associates opportunity
Arrington on Techcrunch talks about the possibility of Amazon licensing its Kindle ebook reader hardware specs and trademark to third-party manufacturers: …a licensing program that gave hardware manufacturers the ability to build Kindle clones, along with an incentive to sell … Continue reading
Next-Generation Email: separating Interface from Storage
There is a market for start-ups that provide only an interface for existing email. For people who are willing to pay for (cheap) storage of their email and for bandwidth. Users will be able to migrate from and to such … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Email, Ideas
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Integrating Firefox bookmarks with del.icio.us and G.B.
With support for tags for bookmarks in Firefox 3, perhaps we should start thinking of integrating the two major bookmarking services – Google Bookmarks and del.icio.us with Firefox’s local bookmarks. The thought struck me as soon as I read this … Continue reading
What I want most from my RSS reader…
… is the ability to add (and view) comments for a post. Right now, I still need to navigate to the website (out of my RSS reader) and comment in the little form at the bottom of the page. That … Continue reading