Looks like the inner-wranglings of the brilliant Google boys is beginning to hit the press in slow increments. Courtesy a lawsuit over the “refurbishment” of the 767 Google has chosen for its corporate airplane, court documents reveal such important decisions as who gets what kind of bed and where the hammocks with hang (WSJ- registration [...]

TechCrunch posted a surprisingly controversial story on Flickr’s choices regarding an API so open that competitors might make use of an import/export feature to lure customers. The story itself is a bit mundane – the question of open data existed before Web 2.0. In fact, Its probably time someone squash the idea that Web2.0 inspired [...]

Google finally launched a search terms interface whereby you can home in on the popularity of the various subjects for which we search, with access to this search data over time. I figured it would be interesting to look into those ideals, imaginations and even simple interests to see which we hold the most dear. [...]

Since a signal of authenticity within the blogorama is to suggest you have been blogging since the dawn of weblogs, I figured I would signal my legitimacy within this domain by highlighting my first public web sighting, back in 1993, on a Commodore Amiga. So there. As if…

Thinking back, it seems the first time I went “online” was in 1988 (or 1987).  Amiga computer owned by a friend.  We dialed up, connected to the network at NU and then chatted with someone who might have been at U of I. I reckon its hard to take the internet for granted when you [...]