Doing Business in Second Life
For a March 18, 2008 presentation on doing business in Second Life for the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council, I developed a white paper covering the background, economics, dos and…
Semantic Web isn’t meant to help LinkedIn (and Facebook, and MySpace)
There was a great post on TechCrunch about Yahoo embracing the semantic web. Basically, the semantic web is the ability to extract meaning from unstructured content. So if LinkedIn…
4 Things Google is doing internally to foster collaboration and innovation
There have been a couple interesting blog posts this week that highlight a webinar presentation given by a Google engineer this week about innovation and collaboration, and how they…
Report from MIX08
Now that the conference is so well underway that its almost over, I thought is was high time to share some general thoughts and observations. I tried really hard…
IE 8 Beta 1 Released at Mix Keynote
IE 8 Beta 1 will be released after the keynote, which is still currently going on as I write this. IE has been play catching up of late, but…
eDemocracy barCamp Podcasting session summary
Last weekend I attended the inaugural eDemocracy barCamp in Washington DC. It was a very good experience and I definitely want to thank all those who organized it. I…
Arriving At Mix 2008 (Las Vegas)
Technically its 4am EST, but here its 1am (and I pretty much live on a west coast clock, even though I was born and raised in Va), which is…
Google Sites Launches, Bringing the Ultimate Mashup Maker One Step Closer
Today, Google announced the launch of its latest application, Google Sites. Google Sites is an application designed to make it easier for those who are not technically savvy to…
14 Days with Resharper 3.1
First off, Resharper 3.1 (R#) is not a stand alone application, instead its integrated into Visual Studio (VS) 2005. I recently installed VS2005 on a new laptop, soon I…
Css Fury: Part 2 Adjacent Selectors, Transverse Dom With CSS
Read Css Fury: Part 1 the star/asterisk selector One of the “wicked cool” but rarely used parts of CSS selectors is the Adjacent/Sibling Selector . IE 6 does not…
Some OpenSource Ideas for .Net
Have you ever felt there is just simply not enough time in the day to get around to doing everything that needs to be done. Its possible that you…
Does the Federal Government Suffer From IT Vendor Lock?
It is a well-known marketing maxim that if a vendor can raise the barrier to exit for a customer, then the vendor can charge incrementally higher costs. If buyers…