Paul Jacobson

Category: Web/Tech

  • A few thoughts on the Newsgator announcement (aka Desktop versus Web-based feed readers)

    Web Worker Daily has been covering Newsgator’s decision to release its consumer products for free: As you may have heard, this afternoon NewsGator announced that all of their desktop/mobile client applications are now freeware. NetNewsWire (see our review) and FeedDemon are well regarded as the best-in-class for all things RSS in a desktop application..now without…

  • 2008 will be the year of …

    … something, I am sure.  I don’t like predictions for the new year.  People often think they have a handle on what will strike it big in the new year and they are rarely right.  Industry analysts in particular don’t really have a clue and probably pick predictions from a hat and add a couple…

  • Two roads diverged on the Social Web

    I have been thinking about the Social Web and how I participate in it and my approach has changed over time.  The way I see it there are two ways you can participate in the Social Web.  (Photo credit: "Young friends" by Gwennypics licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license. The first is to focus…

  • Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Now and then I know people who want to meet people. I enjoy connecting people (authentically) so I thought I’d offer to help.

  • So that’s what a Social Graph is!

    Tim Berners-Lee (one of the architects of the Internet) has published a post (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license) talking about what he sees as a Social Graph and what we are starting to call the Semantic Web.  What I appreciate is his explanation of this term "graph" which has been bandied about so…

  • Lost my wagon of thought

    I was going to blog something and completely forgot what it was … crap! Tags: train of thought, wagon of thought, forgot, blank, pointless post

  • SA Stats vandal is a naughty, misunderstood boy!

    The SA Stats employee who vandalised Wikipedia by removing content relating to AIDS in South Africa has been found guilty at an internal disciplinary enquiry. He had his toys taken away from him for 6 months (that is, no Internet access) and has to work with an employee assistance program. The employee’s punishment is generally…

  • Synthasite raises $5m in funding

    Congrats to Vinny and his team on raising $5m in funding from Columbus Venture Capital. TechCrunch has a brief post about this today. Vinny posted the news on his blog together with a link to the press release: Ok – so you wonder why things have been quiet on this blog? Apart from the fact…