CMP Trademarks Meaningless ‘Web 2.0′ Moniker
I read on Slashdot that CMP trademarked the term ‘Web 2.0′ and promptly started suing people who use the term in association with their conferences. CMP and O’Reilly started the Web 2.0 meme, I...
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MyBlogLog sent an email telling me about some new features that I really appreciate. It wasn’t a boastful press release disguised as an email. It was humble and about me. It acknowledged some snafu...
View ArticleFake personal is worse than impersonal
This ad appears in Entertainment Weekly. Actually, this exact ad only appears in my copy, I’m assuming. You might not be able to see it from the thumbnail, but in the lower left there’s some text that...
View ArticleQuick notes on Facebook’s f8 08 developer conference
I went to f8 yesterday and I can’t say I had the best time in the world. I probably have more fun at LinuxWorld, but maybe my expectations are lower when I don’t pay $150 to get in. I was hoping to get...
View ArticleAnnoying Anti-Piracy for Book from Manning
I bought Zend Framework in Action yesterday because the short tutorial isn’t quite enough to know how to architect an big application. I’m building an enterprise app at work for a client and picked ZF...
View ArticleTender Victuals
Remember Tender Vittles brand cat food? It was a revolutionary feat of marketing…cat food that bridged the gap between wet, canned food and dry, bagged food. I didn’t think about it until now, but...
View ArticleMake more money selling your ebook yourself
It’s interesting to contrast publishing of technical books now versus 1999 when Core PHP Programming first came out. Back then, I’m confident would have been a complete waste of time trying to publish...
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