Archive for January, 2007

Flatting in Illinois

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

My last blog entry reminded me of something that happened to me in graduate school. My first four years on my bike, I hadn’t a single flat. That summer day I was riding to Florida Ave. for pickup soccer and I was late. In the apartment, I grabbed my bike, slung my cleats across my [...]

Review: Continental Ultra GatorSkin

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

My last tires were Avocet Road 30 700×23C kevlar. I’m always partial to road tires with the least amount of tread on them and I love the head-turning advertising Avocet did on these back in the early 90’s. When I saw a pair on closeout, I had to buy a few to keep around in [...]

A new year of political resolution

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Wow!
This is shaping up to being an interesting year. Pretty soon, I might not ever feel the need to blog about politics (vent).
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Ringr

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Ringo started out as Monster’s attempt at making a social network. This makes a lot of sense: like mashups, social networking can be seen as a possible disruptive technology threat to Monster’s core business: job search (a form of vertical search).
I’ve already mentioned job mashups in the past, but last year’s breakout success of LinkedIn [...]

New Years Fortune

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

I received an e-mail Yesterday from Plaxo:

This was a fun project that allows you to tell this year’s fortune for your friends. When you combine it with the new holiday borders you’ll have a pretty cool card!
It’s completely free so try it out.
[More about how the page was made after the jump.] (more…)
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“Out-Googling” Google

Monday, January 1st, 2007

A recent article in the New York Times discusses a bunch of Google competitors.
Is this me or does this sound so 2002?
I wonder if “out-googling” Google is such a great idea in the first place. If barrier to entry is truly as low as the article claims, then why do it at all? It seems [...]