by Nick Gall | June 18, 2009 | 8 Comments
I finally decided to systematically back up my home computer – the one I have for family/personal use. I’ve been using one sort of PC or another since the Compaq Portable in the mid-1980s. In all that time, I’ve only done sporadic backups of various directories when paranoia kicked in. Despite this utter lack of [...]
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by Nick Gall | June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m trying our Zemanta, an add on to Windows Live Writer. Zemanta is supposedly a semantic web application that automagically enriches your blog posts with suggested links, tags, related articles, pictures, etc. For example, if I type the phrase mars lander, Zemanta will automatically do wonderful things. Well it’s supposed to do amazing things, but [...]
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by Nick Gall | June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
I got a lot of hits on my post My 2¢ on Google Wave…. When I looked at the browser share stats (which I rarely do), I was surprised to find Google Chrome had more than a 12% share for the day: Contrast this with Chrome’s under 5% share since the beginning of the year: [...]
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by Nick Gall | June 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
As a few of my friends know, I live for epiphanies. I love to connect concepts. So I’m really happy to be having one now (it’s been a while as regular readers of my blog — if any remain — can tell). For a LONG time, I’ve been talking about how all interfaces can be [...]
by Nick Gall | June 1, 2009 | Comments Off
I viewed the Google Wave demo over the past several days: I’m already convinced that Wave represents a Web paradigm shift on par with Ajax/Web 2.0. Just as Google Maps was the killer app that opened the Ajax floodgates (even though the component technologies/standards were already in place) Wave will be the killer app that [...]
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