On Tuesday, October 16, I had the opportunity to attend Ignite SF, an inspirational night of presentations put on by O'Reilly Media. The premise was that each speaker would get 5 minutes, and get to speak in front of a presentation, whose 20 slides would be automatically swapped out every 15 …
Society
Realizations about business
I used to work for a web design shop during the highs and lows of the internet bubble. When I first started, we were hiring every kid who could string two href's together because work was coming our way, more than we could handle. It was great! We had parties, ate fancy lunches, and drove around in …
Is it really good to know who’s watching?
A few months ago, I read that MySpace or Facebook, or one of those sites, released a tracking feature - you could see who had visited your page and when. This backfired pretty badly because (a) people were creeped out when they saw that strangers were coming to their page over and over and (b) …