Archive for August, 2006

On permanence and identity
Thursday, August 24th, 2006

I observed something interesting while migrating my servers last week. In the process of the migration I changed the domain of my blog from www.unto.net to

SF Tech Sessions, August 2006
Thursday, August 24th, 2006

SF Tech Sessions met last night to discuss online media distribution. Thanks to Niall Kennedy for putting everything together, and thanks to CNET for hosting.

We heard first from Bart Myers of Guba. Bart talked about how Guba, which has been around for years as a front-end for usenet binary archives, has been actively [...]

Bye Bye BlackBerry
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

It is really amusing seeing Dave getting so darn excited about his new BlackBerry.
While I understand his enthusiasm about being able to read (and write) syndicated content on a mobile device, I personally arrived at a totally different place with my BlackBerry. In fact, that place would be hurling the [...]

On Web 2.0, in Hebrew
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Eran Lahav wrote to tell me that he has translated one of my posts into Hebrew. (Hurray for Creative Commons!)
Here is the Hebrew version of “On Web 2.0.”
And here is the original English version.
Could one of my Israeli friends please give it a read and tell me how it sounds?

It’s an APP world, after all
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Darren Chamberlain writes:

I was going to post this as a comment to the Blogging In Flock post, but I see you’ve closed comments on that post. It looks like Elias Torres has implemented an APP server for WordPress. I haven’t tried it, but it looks interesting, and Elias usually makes good stuff.

Thanks for [...]

This whole “not working” thing
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Several people recommended that I should take an extended holiday while I have the chance.
But I’m not sure that I’m cut out for vacations. I get antsy without a place to be and I feel like I’m slacking (or I worry that other people will think I’m slacking).
So vacation or not, the time off [...]

Party Saturday
Friday, August 18th, 2006

M. and I are going to have a little party on Saturday. Time and place in the city to be decided shortly.
I hope to see everyone I know there. Even better, I’d like to see some of the people I haven’t yet met in person.
Just one rule: no recruiting!
Update: Due [...]

Changes
Friday, August 18th, 2006

Sorry to have been quiet for so long. I’ve been heads down getting the final version of the OpenSearch 1.1 specification finished and preparing a community-oriented OpenSearch website. With luck those will both go live within the week.
On a related note, today is my last day with A9/Amazon. It has been an [...]