Burningman ‘06 is up and running. I have always wanted to go to this event, but it’s going to be harder than ever now that I’m in NYC. Not going is one my biggest regrets while at Stanford (second to not going abroad). Here’s a highlights clip from last year to live vicariously [...]

We need a new system of measurement for site popularity. The standard right now is pageviews (some people use other metrics like unique visitors to paint a fuller picture, but the elevator pitch for popularity almost always quotes monthly pageviews).
The Pageviews metric completely ignores user experience; it’s nothing more than a proxy for the [...]

I recently got a new laptop, and I have been spending the last 24 hours staring a installation progress bars creeping slowly from left to right (at least they’re creeping less slowly than on my old computer!). After Norton AntiVirus, the second piece of software I installed was Google Desktop. Considering how directory [...]

The skeptic of Dead2.0, always being a contrarian, pointed out that RSS has only achieved 2% adoption… furthermore, only 11% of the public even knows what RSS is (The original source of these statistics is emarketer.com’s article called Really Seldom Syndication). His main argument is everyone would be better off is RSS vanished behind [...]

This picture is awesome (original source and explaination).  How does one inspire such zeal in one’s users and advocates?  Go Firefox!
I had the opportunity to see Blake Ross in action while at Stanford (I was his RA in his freshman year).  Considering the energy he threw into every task he undertook, I’m not surprised by [...]

Lately it seems like you’re not a real blogger if you don’t write about Google at least once a week. It’s been awhile since my last Google related post, and I wouldn’t want Technorati to think I’m not one of the cool kids, so I have two things to say about Google today:
1) My [...]

I tried to buy a new cellphone today on Cingular (I have Verizon now). I was well into the sign-up process when the sales rep asked if I would like to port my number over. I confirmed that I wanted to keep my number, so the sales rep asked for it. It’s a 650 number, [...]

The Kiko Calendar auction closed yestarday. The auction opened 10 days ago for $50,000 and closed for $258,100. It has been fun to watch Kiko’s wild, highly-publicized exit. I don’t know what Paul Graham’s initial investment was, but it couldn’t have been much considering how much he pays the average kids he picks [...]

This post on Boing Boing today about “Mao Tung” Dew reminded me of the subtle Christian imagery in the Jack in the Box sign (Credit to Lisa for originally pointing this out to me).  It’s Jack in the B-Fish; the O and the X form a fish.  See it?  Between the bible citations hidden on [...]