Things are moving so fast in this “Web 2.0” world. It is more crucial than ever to get your ideas to market faster than the competition. Because there is competition. No matter how novel your idea is, you have to assume that there is someone out there (probably a large group of someones) working on...

If anyone read this, I have two new toys up in “alpha” stages. 1) rateThings: This site allows you to rate and comment on items posted by me. The main idea of the site is to enable users to quickly view the best comments of people who disagree with their own standpoint. For example, if I rated...

Ray Kurzweil was just interviewed by Ubiquity online magazine. They covered the usual topics, same old questions from any Ray Kurzweil interview with answers that are often nearly straight from his books. However, there was a gem in this one about how Ray likes to pick a problem to tackle every...

A college buddy of mine is visiting Israel right now and producing some great travel writing on his new blog: Arie Beitman’s Blog. Check it out.

In the spur of the moment, one cold night not too long ago, I purchased the domain name “tagthenet.com”. I couldn’t figure out a good use for the domain that wouldn’t take up more time than I have, so I created a nice little site to park bookmarks to other “tagging” sites. These kind of...

A new version of my web design portfolio is now online at StrangerStudios.com. The Stranger Studios portfolio has gained some padding thanks to the great stuff done by my girlfriend and colleague, Kim Wallmeier.

Kim’s new portfolio is online at http://kim.strangerstudios.com. The site uses my new phpPortfolio© package. Kim modified the style sheets and I helped her do some other customizations to make it her own. I think it looks great. Hopefully by the end of the day we will have Stranger Studios updated...

One of the most interesting things about del.icio.us is how they made an English word using all three domain levels. Now that they own the icio.us domain, here are some other pages they could create: ausp.icio.us capr.icio.us jud.icio.us mal.icio.us susp.icio.us v.icio.us And here are some others...

Forget that last post; I really just want one of these for Christmas.

Here is (the start of) my Christmas list for 2005. The kicker is that I’m using Amazon referral links. So if you buy something by clicking on one of the links below, I’ll also get a % of the sale! Please check with Kim (kim@strangerstudios.com) before buying anything below in case someone else is...