Eve Maler – Managing Online Relationships

Oct 27, 2008 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Eve Maler is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies and leading partner engagements related to web services, security, and identity. Eve was one of the inventors of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), a key technology for worldwide electronic [...]

Mechanical Turd

Aug 4, 2006 | 3 Comments

I don’t really wanna poop on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) program, but I have a huge problem with it: you can’t sign up to deploy the service unless you give them your bank account information first! Are we living in 1990 or something? Have they ever heard of PayPal – or a credit card, at [...]

Happy TagJag’ed Publishers

Jul 3, 2006 | 2 Comments

Until a few more legal loopholes get closed, I won’t be able to expand much further upon the whole “I’m offering you a stake in TagJag” concept; I’d rather underpromise and overdeliver on this idea. I’m on the lookout for some kind of hip lawyer who can help us get it wrapped up. It’s a [...]

Steve Gillmor is Coming out of Retirement

Jun 15, 2006 | 2 Comments

I’m so incredibly honored to have Steve joining us on the stage at Gnomedex this year. For a while there, it was looking as though he’d never leave his house again. Seriously, I started to get worried when he’d call and leave voicemails at three in the morning after mixing NoDoz with Attention.XML. I’m happy [...]

The Feed Icon Debate

Jun 12, 2006 | 9 Comments

I received an email from Daniel Goldman earlier today regarding Mozilla’s filing for a trademark on the feed icon, requesting that Opera Software sign an agreement before using it in their Web browser. Daniel asked me if I thought this was a good thing or a bad thing for the feed icon. Let me start [...]