October 17, 2007
Who me? Worry?
Coming soon is the big day where Y-Combinator chooses its Winter teams. Over on the news.yc board, there's a lot of angst and tension.I applied too (for the first time), but I have absolutely no worries at all about...
August 7, 2007
Welcome to the Party, Slide
Attitudes are funny things. For instance, you might think that if I was developing and monetizing a blog toolkit product 18 months ago and had to put it on pause due to lack of investment, I might be a little...
September 18, 2006
XJAX Update
Quite a lot has been going on in the world of XJAX lately. I thought I would share some of it with you.
August 16, 2006
Things I Would Rather Do Than Program In Javascript
I am writing up a new version of batBack, my web syndication tool. I have realized over the last few weeks that I have been procrastinating. Well finally today I figured out why: I hate Javascript. I don't mean hate...
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July 14, 2006
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Over on Yahoo, the emails and votes are favoring Ms. Poland to be the winner of the Ms Universe. I've always been a big fan of The Wisdom Of Crowds, so in the interest of science I reviewed the pictures...
July 3, 2006
Nerd Heaven
I've been busy working on conceptualizing batBack version 2.0 over the past couple of days, and it has been a hoot. I guess I can tell you guys a little about it -- hey, you're not going to tell anybody,...
June 21, 2006
Am I Hot, Or Not?
batBack is my program to give out free blog tools to folks. I'm learning a lot writing batBack! Here are thoughts from this week:
May 31, 2006
Welcome New Blogs
Welcome to a few new blogs that signed up for batBack over the past week. my life is a blog by Ajay Abraham of Oman. Ajay -- I hope you like batBack! Welcome aboard. (Ajay has a really cool phone...
May 27, 2006
What's Wrong With Internet Rating Systems
Is it just me, or do the current batch of internet tagging and rating systems suck? I've been studying and working in this field for years, and it seems to me there are several major problems with the current crop of tools.
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May 25, 2006
One More Move, and the Monkey Gets It!
I've been having more fun than a person should have over the past few months with Web 2.0, and you’re going to get a kick out of what I've been doing. Especially since it involves the impending death of a beloved Web mascot.
May 24, 2006
batBack Performance: Thanks for the Memories
For those of you who noticed that batBack is performng unevenly, I finally have an answer for you. I knew that with a cross-blog system I was going to run into performance problems. I just had no idea they would...
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May 6, 2006
batBack Roundup: Daniel hits a Grand Slam
We tracked a lot of fun articles last week on batBack on several blogs. Here's a recap of what you thought about articles across dozens of blogs in the batBack family:
Moon with a Screw Top was an article Daniel wrote on the blog WhatToFix.com It was a big hit! It swept every category. If you haven't read it yet, the readers like it a lot and you probably will too.
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April 30, 2006
Why Blog?
What are you blogging for, anyway? A lot of time people start blogging for one reason and then change their mind without realizing it.
April 29, 2006
Saturday batBack Roundup
Since batBack is getting off the ground, I thought I would share with you some of the latest rated articles for the last week. Don't know what batBack is? Check out the FAQ. Huge Increase in Ununsured Americans on Melissa's...
April 20, 2006
News From the bat Cave
I thought I would write and let everybody know what's going on with me lately. As you might know, I am a web pogrammer and an inventor, so I spend a lot of time programming and doing Intellectual Property stuff.
April 19, 2006
Flocking up your Blog
Have you ever been reading a blog, like you are reading this blog now, and wonder how many other blogs have similar content as this one? Not just posts or topics, but writing style and tone?
April 17, 2006
XJAX Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
I've been busy on my own writing this new XJAX application called batBack (which you can see on this blog), and it struck me how different the development environment of the future is going to be from today.
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April 11, 2006
Do You Know Your Name?
I have this batBack program I am developing to give people a free server-less blog toolkit. It does all kinds of things -- allows people to vote on your articles, allows you to recommend articles to friends, allows you to run custom javascript on people's blogs, allows you to change the skin of the toolbox. All for free.
April 3, 2006
batBack Keeps Rolling Along
We've been working on batBack and we thought you would like to know what new features are available. Over the last month, a lot has changed! The biggest addition is the new batBack Sidebar. You can see it over on...