I have been here in Dubai now for about 20 months. I arrived on March 7, 2006. For that whole time I have been helping to manage the redesign and redevelopment of Emirates Airline’s website. Monster of a project really. Every line of code is new. Nearly every image is new. Vendors from all over […]

Today I thought of an idea. A real honest-to-goodness web 2.0, Google-buyout-typed idea. I mulled it over in my head for hours. I started spending the VC money in my imagination. Information Architecture - check, Web 2.0 design - check, Offshore Programmers - check…
I’m not one to give away ideas like this, but in this […]

It’s times like these that people have the tendency to turn to snake oil for medicine rather than focus on true science. I’ve seen a lot of uninformed crap in the news about alternative energy sources since the recent world events have driven oil prices so high. I wonder though why some of the more […]

For the dozen of you that don’t know what “net neutrality” is or the ridiculous debate currently going on in Congress, let me sum it up for you. Big telecoms and cable companies want the ability to charge more money to big companies to provide more bandwidth for them to deliver bigger and bigger files […]

This is stunning/revolutionary news. Amazon owned, Alexa, the web crawler that powers Amazon’s A9 search service among other things, has decided to open up the entire web index to anyone who wants to use it via web services. Welcome to the Alexa Web Service Platform. They are charging nominal fees for bandwidth consumption, storage space, […]

Yahoo! finally bought del.icio.us! I KNEW this was coming. I just wasn’t sure if it would be Yahoo! or Google to do it. Yahoo! is making a ton of great buys/hires lately, Flickr.com, Upcoming.org, Tom Coates (plasticbag.org), AJAX and RSS in webmail, new Maps, and now del.icio.us.
With a market cap worth roughly half that […]

I wish I had the courage to write this letter. If I win the mega-millions, I promise I will. I promise.
[thank you slob.]
UPDATE: Craigslist took it down, but I KNEW that would happen, so I saved the letter myself. Here it is:

I just got back from Atlanta where I was helping my company, Wunderman, set up, moderate, motivate, and mitigate a blog for the DMA conference (Direct Marketing Association) in conjunction with the DM News. I also took some photos that went up on the blog, and into the DM News’ Flickr account. The rest of […]

Journalist and editor A.J. Jacobs decided to outsource most of his daily life to India after reading Thomas Freidman’s The World is Flat. His account of the experience in Esquire Magazine is extrardinarily written, hilarious, and is inspiring me to outsource my own life. You HAVE to read this. Enjoy.
[via kottke.]

The small Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan measures its economic success with “Gross National Happiness (GNH)” instead of GDP, and the rest of the world is now considering similar indicators.
In 1972, concerned about the problems afflicting other developing countries that focused only on economic growth, Bhutan’s newly crowned leader, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, decided to make […]

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