tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93716182024-03-07T23:17:40.899-08:00Most people have about 200 minutes (around three hours) per day where they can choose to focus their time once they've gotten home from work, eaten, paid the bills, kissed the kids, and/or whatever other top priorities folks have. My goal is to find technological solutions that can streamline and maximize those 200 minutes, by removing inefficiencies and helping each user personalize their information flow.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1134222425709596582005-12-10T05:27:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:50.361-07:00

In addition to buying Flickr, Yahoo has now bought del.icio.us. I can't wait to see the improvements that come out of this! Hopefully we won't see too many downsides.And this just on the heels of checking my Google email and seeing the Google web clips fiasco - how the heck do I read all of my feeds through that interface? I guess the concept of context-appropriate RSS based on what you're

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Mouth, you remember Foot? Foot, you remember Mouth? Great.I've switched to Firefox, against my previous postings, and one side result is that now I see multi-tabs of each site's favicons. It's a refreshing brand reminder that Craigslist's icon is a peace sign:I can't wait until either eBay makes dramatic improvements to his already-great site, or Microsoft Fremont renders it obsolete, so we

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I tried out SharpReader tonight, a new tool that supposedly does threading better than Memeorandum. Ideally it would consolidate the repeats I've been posting about, but here's a screenshot:So I get a ton of error messages (20 more above those ones), and when it does group, it's solely based on who wrote it (Blog Maverick/Mark Cuban) regardless of the topic. This isn't what I'm looking for - I'm

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133334468268634772005-11-29T23:06:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:50.157-07:00

Ouch - RSS, meet Yahoo Mail, but they won't have any early adopters buying in..."And there is no OPML importing." Who wants to start their RSS feeds all over?

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133237021763740792005-11-28T19:59:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:50.077-07:00

Cool - after admitting in a previous post that I use IE instead of Firefox, I go to check out FeedLounge and see this icon:Tagging my RSS feeds doesn't really do it for me anyway, as I like the dynamic mix and don't want to peg each feed into a certain genre (unlike my bookmark tags, which are more on a one-off basis of consistency). Nonetheless...I know everyone keeps saying this, but I love

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133150299611436502005-11-27T19:35:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:49.974-07:00

Contrary to everyone else's opinion in a comments thread I was participating in (but can't find now), I wish the posts that got fed into my aggregator were all slim and sleek for quick scrolling through. I limited my outgoing post feeds to 100 characters, and here's what it looks like:Pretty slick, eh? More than a title, less than a pontification - there's just enough there for the user to have

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133139179137857112005-11-27T16:31:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:49.851-07:00

NEWS: I'm changing the name of this blog to '200minutes', to be found at www.200minutes.com.The premise is that most people in civilized society have about 200 minutes, or around three hours, per day where they can choose to focus their time once they've gotten home from work, eaten, paid the bills, kissed the kids, and/or whatever other top priorities folks have. My goal is to find technological

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133110869235442612005-11-27T08:47:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.546-07:00

I may be the only one looking at this blog, so there are certain things I don't spend energy posting about because I don't think they provide enough personal value. For example:almost anything with the words "innovation" and/or "attention"posturing between business system organizations (like the memos from Marc Benioff from Salesforce.com and Bill Gates/Ray Ozzie from Microsoft)posturing between

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133108792608623312005-11-27T08:25:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.487-07:00

I applied to a position at Google recently - but thank heaven this isn't me:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1564745197278086518The comedy gold hits at around 2 minutes 30 seconds.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133107110974342052005-11-27T07:55:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.427-07:00

Fyi for anyone using Blogger to post, the default image size is Medium - during my previous post, I updated my Blogger image default to be Large. You can see it's still not huge, but better than before. It's pretty obvious how to change it on the screen where you're uploading an image, I just hadn't noticed for some reason.I'll go back and update prior posts to have Large images for better

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133104782985887372005-11-27T06:58:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.363-07:00

I thought it might be interesting to post some stats I'm seeing for this blog. (Yes, I know there's nobody visiting the site, no need to rub it in.) Anyway, here goes:Overview - I know the pics aren't very big, but you can see that the Google Analytics tools are pretty slick. From the overview, you can see that not many people are consistently coming to the blog, from both the traffic view on the

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133044190427259152005-11-26T14:17:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.295-07:00

Wheee - I need to post more, it was so bizarre to start reading my aggregated RSS feeds and come upon a post where I was like "hey, this is something I'm interested in" -- only to realize it was my previous post, now being fed into my Newsgator. By the way, anyone know why my image shows up so small? I doubled the size in Photoshop, and there are no size limits specified in the post HTML - so why

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1133036547076550592005-11-26T11:59:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.229-07:00

I had a Zen moment this morning - thinking about how much more often I end up getting good results by following a "just in case" (semi-conservative) approach instead of a "just in time" (cut it close) approach.This is true for my system development work, for my Texas Hold'Em poker game, for my Risk games against friends, for when I'm headed to an appointment, and all sorts of other times. Sure,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1132637557278822202005-11-21T21:23:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.160-07:00

I have been a loyal user of Craigslist for years, and recently the Denver version too - but it would be great to have an "Email post owner" hyperlink up in the top right corner.I can click on a link to email a post to someone else, but what about emailing the person that created the post to discuss what they posted? I have to separately open my browser to access my email account, copy and paste

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1132420142945557942005-11-19T09:08:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.086-07:00

Links for 2005-11-18 [del.icio.us]To Favicon Or Not? (and good tool in comments)Wink - screencast creator like CamStudioInhabitat - greening citiesThe 3 M's of Pro Blogging: Multiple Monetization Methods Performancing.com10 Business Models for Bloggers Performancing.comCo-blogging, Finding Your Blog Buddy Performancing.comThe Generator Blog: Put your text on anythingGoogle AdSense Tour - put

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1132153230044669472005-11-16T06:54:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:48.011-07:00

I was just wrapping up a slightly lengthy post about my failed efforts to get del.icio.us to auto-post my daily links here. I pasted in the error text from del.icio.us, and went to switch this blog's post from "Edit Html" to "Compose" to see how it actually looked. Up comes Internet Explor/der's "You've done something bad and now I'm closing all your windows", and there goes about 45 minutes

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131602571626419822005-11-09T21:55:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.947-07:00

Here's a shot from my RSS aggregator this morning, showing the same article again and again and again and again. I wish it were consolidated down to just one article, since that's all it really is even if it came from multiple sources... It gets even more fun when the posts are long and wordy:I know Memeorandum and TailRank do grouping, but I don't like them as much as I do NewsGator. Can't wait

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131486350443629342005-11-08T13:29:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.883-07:00

"Shock news: All ERP vendors are the same"I disagree with this 'research.' It's like saying all cars are the same - I mean, after all, you're really just trying to drive from one place to another, right? Sure, some people might feel that way and buy the most commoditized version available, but there are also benefits to getting a model that meets your other priorities too.In the case of

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131479442865030622005-11-08T11:20:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.820-07:00

Here are the items that I'm tackling when possible, to try to enrich the blogging experience:How to add RSS to Convene blog (should be easy, right?)Del.icio.us error (not looking likely to have resolution)Craigslist RSS not recognized (dunno why this is, gotta email support)Consolidated repeat RSS items (feature request, not likely to happen soon)How to categorize posts on Convene to tie with

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131424653299285282005-11-07T20:31:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.759-07:00

Much as I love Salesforce.com, I found myself agreeing with a majority of this post:Five Problems Will Thwart Salesforce.com's Rise in On-Demand CRMPoint #3 (The wrong brand for the long term) is especially poignant given the AppExchange that could branch out like crazy and make the brand a misnomer, but I think Point #5 (A large-enterprise strategy that doesn't click) is off for that same reason

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131381676528422882005-11-07T08:39:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.679-07:00

Yahoo, TiVo Team Up to Blend TV, Web Users of Yahoo's TV page will be able to click on a record-to-TiVo buttondirectly from a television program listing to remotely schedule recordings.Holy moley, is that freakin' cool. If I'm reading this right, and if I were at a friend's house in NY and could tell my tivo in CA to record a show, it might just finally convince me to buy a Tivo.[Update: Om Malik

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131381502966954262005-11-07T08:35:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.609-07:00

Google brings maps to phonesVerizon's phones use a different programming language, as do BlackBerrys andPalm devices, so they are not compatible.Feh >:-[

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131376109908752962005-11-07T06:31:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.536-07:00

There are a couple of articles emerging about how AJAX will compromise ad revenues - here are those:Ajax Challenges Web Development Leaders -- And Web Publishers And Advertisers (July 2005)AJAX bad for publishers, good for users?AJAX Good or Bad Part II (or What should publishers do with AJAX?)From my perspective, I don't think it will actually be that disruptive. Unless I'm misunderstanding,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131373802529579562005-11-07T06:28:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.468-07:00

I hope this dies out quickly:You are under arrest on charges of not securing your Wi-Fi network...

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06211698977402092911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9371618.post-1131231805605751672005-11-05T14:20:00.000-08:002006-10-19T10:44:47.401-07:00

I'm currently paying $20+ per month just to have a local phone line in Denver (thanks Qwest). I use this only for making local calls maybe 10 times a week with 2 people (my boss and my mom), though each of those can go 30-45 minutes. So for local rates, I'm paying about $2 per call. I know I can't beat that with Vonage, since they've got high monthly subscriptions ($30+ if I remember right).I

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