I don’t know much about browser proxy-ing technology (like the kind that anonymizes your data whilst you browse, a la anonymouse and others), but a few weeks ago when I was in class I could have used an attention proxy.
I had a fair amount of time to browse the ‘net while in class, but unfortunately [...]

This seems to be the big news of the day, Alexa has essentially popped open the doors on it’s data and is now allowing anyone willing to pay a fairly nominal fee to access the information from it’s crawls. The news is all over; a good starting point is here.
This is pretty exciting news [...]

It’s not all that often that I feel compelled to give a great customer service rating to anyone, least of all to an insurance company for whom I’m not a customer, but my recent experience with Progressive Insurance is one of the exceptions.
From the start, when I called my report in to them, Progressive has [...]

I’ve been wondering if there’s value in an aggregated feed of blog posts and comments. Ideally a threaded one, where the comments followed along behind the post they related to - perhaps even as children - requiring prior art or a new namespace, I suspect.
Obviously on blogs with a ton of comments that would [...]

Getting on to Madison’s much-maligned beltline highway last night, I was involved in a substantial bummer. I was rear-ended.
Uff Da! This is, I believe, the first accident I’ve been in wherein I was the driver and not in some part responsible for the mess. so I guess that’s good.
Aside from a litle stiff [...]

You know, I never thought I’d find myself in the position of defending Wikipedia - I’m a pretty light contributor there, and not what might be called a Wikipedian, but here’s Dave with more in his rant against Wikipedia:
“Now of course I want to know who said that. See the problem? Same set of facts, [...]

“The question of death is also the question of life, panditji, and the question of how to live is also the question of love. That is the question you have to go on answering, to which there is no answer excpet in the going on.”
from Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

SuprGlu is a sort of a personality aggregator for the web published by Iridesco. If you wanted to collect all the information available by you or about you that you’re responsible for, SuprGlu’d be a place to do it.
The essential idea here is that you give SuprGlu a bunch of inputs of your data [...]

Michael Gartenberg:
“At the end of the day, it [Encyclopedia Britannica] provided something the Wikipedia sorely lacks, namely ethos. The reall [sic] story of the Wikipedia is why would anyone presume anything written in there is accurate? Where’s the accountablity? Well, there is none.”
I think this is reductive and inaccurate. It’s like saying that there’s [...]

I suspect most will have heard about Pandora; the company was reviewed by TechCrunch, and the free release was publicized there as well. I first heard about the idea on an NPR segment about Pandora’s parent, the Music Genome Project.
I don’t know what I can add to Michael’s original review at TechCrunch, but I [...]