This past weekend, I played in the $5000 World Poker Tour main event in Reno (the World Poker Challenge). While I outlasted two-thirds of the field, I unfortunately got myself trapped in a hand and lost my larger-than-average $30,000 stack just a half-hour before the end of the first day.
But, I’ll save […]
If you like to shop on eBay and you prefer getting your daily (or hourly) dose of information via your RSS reader, today is the day for you…
Today, eBay releases RSS for search results. Whenever you do a search on eBay, you will find a little orange RSS button () at the bottom of […]
After a great year of poker in 2005, the first couple months of 2006 have been decidely disappointing. The pressure of feeling like I need to have an even better year than last — along with the pressure that’s come from watching a good friend go on a major as of late — has […]
I’ve had a bunch of people recently ask me what blogs I read to keep up to speed on the industry, trends, and competitive issues relating to the various technologies I work with and am interested in…
Here’s a run-down on my daily blog intake (in no particular order):
General, Internet, Web 2.0
Best of eBay Blogs - […]
I don’t normally just post links, but no time for commentary on this busy day…
This is a great example of how online companies can (and should!) use technology to better understand their customer’s usage patterns and needs…in the end, it makes your customers more happy and makes you more money…
I have to give Amazon some credit…they aren’t just sitting back and waiting for the future to come to them…
First there was Alexa for developers, Amazon’s offering of a pay-per-use web services interface to their Alexa search index. Not unique…not revolutionary…but certainly an innovative step in the direction of web evolution. Opening Alexa […]
In a previous post, I discussed the virtues of RSS, as well as touched on some of its limitations; I ended with a promise to discuss some emerging standards aimed at extending RSS functionality to help bridge the gap between syndication protocol and generic data distribution protocol.
When I wrote this back in December, I had […]
Compelling title to the post, huh?
Well, I don’t have all the answers, but let me try to put together one piece of the puzzle… (or should that be one piece of one of the puzzles?)
I mentioned in a previous post that I believe there will be an online shift of focus from […]
I’ve written a little bit recently about the online experience moving from browser to desktop. In a conversation today, I was asked what I thought the timeline would be for this shift to occur and whether I thought it would occur in a gradual fashion.
First, I don’t think this shift will occur overnight; this […]
The Daily Show did a segment on Social Networking for all of those “old people” out of the know…
Thanks Ro for finding this!