Launching a startup is like sending a message in a bottle. If the message is not clear, no one will come to visit your lonely island or send you a postcard back. When you launch your startup, your online presence (i.e. website, twitter account, facebook page, etc) and the buzz you manage to create online via the online official [...]
Yaniv let the cat out of the bag about some of our ideas for making other parts of the search and its relevant data open, free and accessible to all of us. I’d thought I’ll add some background and my thoughts on the subject. First, the idea was iterated a couple of times when we [...]
Dave Winer says: “[...] we could make Twitter the open identity system we’ve been looking for. Make your Twitter ID the one that you use to log on to other service [...]“ I say let Twitter support OpenID with all of the good Relaying Party Best Practices including (but not limited to): Ability to associate [...]
I really like Amazon. I really like Amazon’s recommendations and ever since I inputed most of my books into Amazon I get really good recommendations. There is one thing that bothers me, though. I recently made a big order from Amazon and included two books which I was long overdue in owning and reading them. [...]
After reading Grant Robertson’s post – “Taming your own river of news” I’ve decided to use Yahoo Pipes to create my online life feed (it sounds better than “Eran’s river of news”, don’t you think?) You can check it out here. Basically I aggregate the feeds from this blog, my Advanced .NET debugging blog, my [...]
I think Yahoo Pipes is really cool. The main attraction is its slick user interface and ease of use. I just created a pipe of all of the Recent Questions of Yedda translated using Babelfish to French and it took less than 5 minutes. I do have a couple of ideas that I think will [...]
If you don’t already know, Jim Gray, a computer scientist and Turing Award winner has disappeared at sea on Jan 28th 2007 while solo sailing his boat on a trip to Farallon Island near San Fransisco. His friend, Werner Vogel – Amazon’s CTO, has harnessed the help of Amazon’s Mechnical Turk to get people to [...]
Google Gmail recently got a new feature allowing one to open Word documents using Google Docs and we can safely assume that PDF and Excel (for use with Google Spreadsheets) documents are on their way as well. Sometimes a Word document can be quite big with lots of added stuff like images, drawings and so [...]
You know what would be a cool feature (and even a useful one) to Gmail? Integrating Gmail with Google Video and/or YouTube to provide video previewing of videos received as attachments. I haven’t received a video as an attachment on my Gmail for quite some time now, but I see no reason why it shouldn’t [...]
My good friend Yaniv lately talked a lot about tags and other tagging related issues.Now this whole tagging thing is kinda going out of hand so I’ve decided to create a new game that will bring tagging to the real world.I’ve decided to call it GoTag. Ingredients: One pack of 3M PostIts in the color [...]