It seems to be, according to comments recently made by Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt: Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on...
My boss, John, was recently interviewed by eWeek for an article about Popfly, where it came from, and where it’s going. Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the article: [Part] of the thing about learning to program is at the end you want to be a...
Today marks our third release of Popfly since we debuted it…three months ago. I am continually impressed by my team’s ability to keep popping releases out like clockwork. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, but we do lov...
For a while now, Popfly’s unofficial mascot has been a rather unassuming rubber duckie who rebels against the man with his rakish magenta hue. From my understanding, he spends his weeekends barhopping with college kids along the Ave. Anyway, my P...
I’ll be in Minnesota for the next week celebrating my sister’s 34th birthday and my 25th birthday. Posting may be sparse. In the mean time, here are a few albums you should listen to: The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Modest Mouse - We Were...
78% of respondents agree that an ecosystem of long-tail conversations is exciting.
Slate’s posted a tremendously embarassing-looking unclassified Powerpoint deck from the CIA. The twelve pages present a sort-of who’s who guide of Powerpoint design mistakes. I don’t really fault the CIA procurement executive who created it, thoug...
Continuing yesterday’s Silverlight love-fest, I just found a fantastic blog post from Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform group, that covers virtually every aspect of Silverlight 1.1 in a good deal of depth and includ...
This is always a nice way to start a week: If you haven't already discovered the world of mashups, Microsoft's Popfly is a good place to start. Mashups combine multiple Web-based sites or applications to produce all sorts of useful things, such as...
It's like doing a bodyshot, but with a cracker; a low-fat cracker! – Anonymous