Month: October 2007
Trackback testing made easy
With some tweaks, and the use of a really handy free trackback testing website, Test Track, my trackbacks seem to be working properly. See it work both ways here.
I think I like the open-source spirit!
Twitter has no business plan?
Twitter, a company in San Francisco that lets users alert friends to what they are doing at any given moment over their mobile phones, recently raised an undisclosed amount of financing. Its co-founder and creative director, Biz Stone, says that the company was not currently focused on making money and that no one in the company was even working on how to do so.
Did we learn nothing from the last dot.com boom when investors threw money at anything new and flashy? I use and like Twitter, though have never seen an ad, paid a fee, or even seen a way to buy a Twitter hat or t-shirt (which I will be happy to buy!).
According to Stone:
“At the moment, we’re focused on growing our network and our user experience,” he said. “When you have a lot of traffic, there’s always a clear business model.”
So, they have a business model, but it is not involved with making money, or at least none in the near future. Of course, he is the one getting interviewed by the Times, and not me. I am sure there is something to be said about that, though I am not quite sure what . . .
Ahh, life is good!
5000 Web Apps
Hiking in the Catskills
Keep this up, and I just may lose weight and get into shape. Once again, what a nifty idea!
On the other hand, there is no better place to clean the mind while studying Kant’s Third Critique. Where better place to see art than in the woods? Not quite like Thoreau, but I did come out of them.