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RANT: STOMP is kinda lame…

Posted by pallid on June 15th, 2006

I’m not going to comment on whether this will take off (it very well might) - but one thing’s for sure - I think it’s lame. Let me count the ways:

I’ve read starblogs, and man most of them just ramble on. Xiaxue was totally off topic, but at least that was entertaining (sounded kinda like […]

Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, RSS… HUH?!

Posted by pallid on June 15th, 2006

Everyday, I’m reminded just how alien these overhyped concepts are to normal people. I’ve just spoken at the Content Management Strategies conference in Singapore organized by ABF, and I prepared a deck mainly dealing in “2.0″-ish stuff (for lack of a better term). From what I heard, “Web 2.0″ was the hot topic among speakers, […]

More Y! than I want to handle…

Posted by pallid on May 24th, 2006

I’ve always wanted to mention this… I both love Yahoo! and hate Yahoo! at the same time now. The picture below will tell you why…

You see, I was upgrading Konfabulator… oh I mean Yahoo! Widgets… and if you haven’t noticed, they’ve added the convenient option of choosing Yahoo! toolbar and Yahoo! central, and making Yahoo! […]

Firefox 2.0 vs. IE 7

Posted by pallid on May 24th, 2006

I’m using the latest version of Firefox’s 2.0 Alpha 1 release (i.e. pre-beta = unstable and buggy), and in fact I’m writing this post in Firefox 2.0a1 (codenamed Bon Echo) right now. I’ll list down a few of the changes and improvements that I’ve already noticed with this release, and I must say it’s way […]

Social Network Gold Rush

Posted by pallid on May 23rd, 2006

A post by Om Malik GigaOM : ยป Too Many Social Networks? echoes what I’m thinking right now, and links to the Business Week article that I’ve linked to before - there are too many social networks.
In addition to that, I can’t quite grasp the business model behind social networks yet. Advertising is definitely […]