Lucid Points

This one is a little harder, but it is still free money. Until 5pm tomorrow, I will give out $1 to each person that gives me the secret password in person. Previous winners need not apply.

I’ve written here, here, and here about Microsoft’s blunders, issues, and possible coming demise. Oh, and here, here, and here. There are others – trust me. I am not against Microsoft at all. What I am against is their failure to adopt new business paradigms, their total lack of respect for users (product activation failures), [...]

Howdy partners. Gitty-up to the newest Burger King viral marketing site, Pet Moustache.

We’ve activated the public beta of The City Wire. Beta means that it is not finished and you will likely find broken pages. First up is the Calendar of Events for the River Valley Area, and we really need your help with putting your events in the calendar. One of the cool things about The [...]

Has anyone noticed the new Interactive Weather Map now on Weather.com? The animation is now more granular, but even better you can zoom in and see the radar overlayed onto satellite imagery. Way cool for weather geeks. It is powered by Microsoft’s often-overlooked Virtual Earth. While I am on the subject, Google’s Maps feature also [...]

Just a few days after posting about Post2Blog from Give Away of the Day, I discovered BlogDesk. Post2Blog is very nice, but anytime that I can get the basics of just what I need to do for free, well…, that just works better.

A few years ago, I thought open-source software was about licensing (particularly being ‘free’ software), and imagined that those creating, supporting, and using open source software as bucking the establishment, trying to stick it to the MAN types that did not want to work within the capitalist system (UC-Berkeley came to mind).  Furthermore, I figured that it [...]

I really like Netvibes; I really do.  BUT, I have been using the latest version of Google Reader, and I really hate to say it, but I have quit using Netvibes and am now using Google Reader exclusively. Why, you increduously (is that right?) ask?  Well, the Reader is just efficient.  Not only that, I can [...]

Scoble has a post about “Netflix is dead” and that is simply ridiculous in the time space we currently live in. P2P with Verisign and Adobe?  Please.  *Maybe* Apple could pull this off, maybe even Microsoft, but no way could these two do it.  Can’t even imagine that these two even have the corporate culture [...]

In another case of traditional media starting to “get it”, Gannett is moving to what Wired magazine calls “Crowdsourcing”, but what is more important, Gannett is an old-world tree-killing newspaper finally realizing that to keep readers, they must engage them, and the push-it-and-tell-em-to-like-it days are over.  2007 will be when Web 2.0 hits the mainstream.