William Grosso @ June 7, 2008
I just discovered this morning that Peter Seibel, whom I deeply respect and have lunch with every other year, has been successfully manipulating the very fabric of the web.
A bit of explanation: “Link text” is the label that is displayed with a hyperlink. So, in the paragraph above, “successfully manipulating the very fabric of the [...]
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William Grosso @ June 3, 2008
Way back in 2004, I was running SDForum’s Emerging Technology SIG. I was also looking for a job: we’d sold Hipbone to Kana and my people-search startup idea wasn’t getting much traction with the VC’s1 So I looked around for a job and interviewed at Jotspot.
I was fascinated by the vision. Ultimately, I [...]
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William Grosso @ June 1, 2008
Recently, I went to the local movie theater to see the latest Indiana Jones film with a friend. We wanted a well-crafted and somewhat mindless action film1 and Indiana Jones seemed like the right choice.
I hadn’t been to a movie theatre in 4 months, and I may never go to another first-run mass-market film. The [...]
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William Grosso @ June 1, 2008
Dave Winer wrote a post today that reminded me why I read him: a lot of the time, I’ll read something that leaves me almost breathless in its combination of muddled-thinking and wishful-thinking. And, after a brief “what?”, I’ll just move on.
Dave, on the other hand, takes the time to point out the flaws in [...]
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