As a meme, outsourcing IT to India seems to have died down significantly in the last year. Recently, Riya’s CEO Munjal Shah wrote that he is closing Riya’s India office. The reason: cost. It’s no longer cost-effective to outsource their IT anymore. Here’s one key paragraph to show the effect of the [...]

I’m sitting on the couch flipping between the NFL Draft and the Red Sox game on TV. I wanted to learn more about Brady Quinn’s background, so I went to his Wikipedia page. To say it’s “current” is an understatement. It’s predicting the future. Brady has yet to negotiate his contract [...]

I kicked my SongBird installation back into gear today. I have a few takeaways:

The Add-Ons community is buzzing. SongBird itself has a few interesting features, but the support through Add-Ons for Wikipedia, Hype Machine, iPod, and Scrobbling (and other cool hacks) is excellent. I’m impressed that this young project has already generated [...]

…should be erased from the map. Another painful abuse of software patents is happening.

Outside.in tracks over 3,000 US neighborhoods for geotagged blog posts and placebloggers. They have aggregated a lot of interesting data, and recently released a taste of this information back to the public. They released a report called Inside America’s Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods.
I was surprised to find that Newton, MA (a [...]

Update: I just noticed that on my Solar System Read a Mat in my apartment, Pluto is in the Solar System… but on the image on my blog below (taken from the Read a Mat site) Pluto is gone! Glad to see the Read a Mat company is keeping up with the times.
Original [...]

Ebay’s potential acquisition of StumbleUpon is fun to play with.
The Value of a StumbleUpon User:
2.1mm users for $45mm dollars = ~$21/user. Now, that might sound like a lot of money, but one should look at comparable acquisitions to understand what a user is worth.

Flickr had about 270,000 users one month [...]

I dig the recent meme of OpenCoffee Club sprouting up on both sides of the Pond. And, a big thanks to Nicholas Butterworth for taking the initiative to start the NY OpenCoffee Club.
I really like the personal interaction; I’m a big fan of the Meetup ideal of getting out from behind the computer.
Thursday’s at [...]

Jon Stewart almost completely avoided talking about the Virgina Tech shooting today. He basically said, “I’m not going to talk about it.” It’s a good choice, but the rest of the show leaves an achy feeling in my stomach thinking about all that he’s ignoring. I guess that’s part of the irony [...]