Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Here is a great resource for using launchd to automatically start tomcat on your OS X machine.
For a while I used to stream my own CNBC from my house for work … I am techie enough to figure that out. The main reason I set this up was for the Tour De France (when Lance was crushing it).
I just recently discovered CNBC Plus and I have to say it’s really really [...]
I have been a subscriber off and on for a while. I like the consistent analytical approach to their stock ratings and in particular the IBD 100 and Big Cap 20 rankings.
I now just subscribe to the site and the electronic edition and one thing that really irritates me is that they still flash all [...]
Since I started using Google Spreadsheets I have started to think about other hosted applications … I have used salesforce.com for true CRM before, but what I hadn’t explored was their force.com platform for creating totally custom applications. They call it a “platform as a service” … I am intrigued and as such I created a developer [...]
The tag line for Sun is slowly coming true on many fronts. There are larger scale applications like Salesforce.com and then niche applications from vendors solving very specific business needs. Just yesterday I started looking at a company that provides “Performance Reporting” for money managers called Black Diamond Reporting. A fully hosted online web-based platform for aggregating and [...]
Yahoo! Groups is another thing I always thought Yahoo! should “corporatized” and they just didn’t get it … Yahoo! Groups could be (or maybe I should say could have been) a Basecamp type product …
I have written before about how Yahoo! has “dropped the ball” and missed opportunities … Here is another one … Google Apps is something a small team at Yahoo! called “Corporate My Yahoo!” or later “Corporate Yahoo!” tried to bring to market … the vision was to take the My Yahoo! interface and use it [...]
I started using Basecamp for work and it’s great. Simple and useful … I share information with colleagues and our outside service providers. I love being able to post documents, ideas, articles, etc …
I have also integrated some Google Spreadsheets of our futures and stock positions using iframes … very very [...]
I want iChat logged in on home computer (always on) and on iPhone … then I give friends (Buddys) permission to see my actual location … very cool.
I read this entry by Mark and it just underscores how ahead of our time we were at broadcast.com. It’s also more evidence of the point I was making here
