There is an interesting discussion at Wisdump about RSS and if it will ever become mainstream, whatever they mean by that. Email is completely different since it allows people to communicate with one another while RSS just acts as an asynchronous communication tool. Every major online communication breakthrough (IRC, IM, etc) succeeded because it handled … Continue reading Will RSS ever go big?
This sounds wrong, not in terms of statistics, of which I am not aware, but in terms of people’s behavior: Here in the U.S. the annual average is a measly 13 days (Compared to Italy’s 42 and France’s 37): a pittance if you include time-off needed for weddings, complicated mid-week errands, parole violations and the … Continue reading Working hard
I am back from my short vacations. I went with my wife and son and a few friends to Platres village in Troodos mountains (these are some of my older photos – I wish there was that much snow this time). For three days and nights we stayed, once again, in the Forest Park Hotel. … Continue reading Back from vacations in Platres
I have re-written this post more than five times already. I am not any good with neither reviews, nor resolutions. My memory is too short for reviews. And digging through archives of this blog takes time. And there is too much potential for nostalgia crying. Resolutions are even worse. I am terrible at planning, and … Continue reading New Year – reviews and resolutions
Tim O’Reilly retries the definition of his term “web 2.0”: Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to … Continue reading Web 2.0 definition