Insurance 2.0

One of the things that irks me is when somebody talks about any one application as a “WebOS”. It shows a fundamental lack of understanding about the way operating systems work and a willingness to regurgitate any misapplied marketing fluff that a company wants to…

I love Amazon’s Web services. They are game-changing. EC2 lets you scale the number of servers you’re running infinitely at a moment’s notice, and S3 gives you an infinite amount of storage space. No systems administrators to pay, no complex infrastructure to…

Yahoo Answers and similar “question and answer” sites have been getting a lot of publicity lately. While I’m not too keen on the current incarnation of these sites — they seem like nothing more than glorified database applications to me — it strikes me that this is…

UPDATE: The Pencil Project seems to work even better than Visio and these stencils for UI mockups, you might want to check it out unless you need some of these controls (like the iPod) specifically. It’s also FREE! :)

Well this is interesting. Rumors of a Google phone have been swirling for months, and I just spotted an article stating that it may be based on the OpenMoko mobile Linux platform. If you haven’t seen the OpenMoko phones yet you owe it to yourself to check them out, they’re very…

I love social news sites like Digg and Reddit, but Reddit is quickly becoming my favorite. Its users, while typically far more liberal than I, are not shy about using the site in unconventional ways. The other day it was a method to suck money out of Giuliani’s…