DeWitt Clinton

What I’m trying to figure out right now is exactly how Friendster missed their opportunity. Or more particularly, why social networks briefly seemed like they were going to be tranformative, but now appear lackluster and commodity. In this context, “social network” is not just any site that has users and discussions, but rather the specific [...]

Thanks to the hard work of others, the photo galleries have returned to unto.net. I’ve been impressed with Flickr since they launched. But I never used it personally because I wanted to display my images on unto.net. Unfortunately, that meant that I couldn’t take advantage of all the features that Flickr has to offer. Fortunately, [...]

Upon seeing the new Google Search History feature, my first reaction was “this is cool!” My second reaction was “no, wait, this is not cool.” My current reaction is still “this is not cool,” but now I think I can better articulate why, and what Google can do to fix it. The problem with the [...]

As part of the migration to WordPress, I took the opportunity to change the layout and format of the site. Just a month ago I had done a bit of an update and basically copied Russell Beattie‘s design and tweaked it. (Don’t let that turn you off from his site — he did a much [...]

I know I’ve spoken well in the past about Blosxom, Rael Dornfest‘s lightweight weblog application. There is a lot to like about Blosxom, and I stand by the reasons that I gave before for picking Blosxom in the first place. It is open source, database independent, easy to use, install, and customize. I wrote a [...]