I’m in Camberley for the next couple of days, and had a very full weekend. Some good friends from Yorkshire came down for the weekend, and Paul and I went to the England-South Africa rugby match at Twickenham. As a result, I’m just now catching up. So while I catch my breath, I thought I’d […]
Archives for November 2006
Flickr files patent for ‘Interestingness’
You know I’m a big fan of Flickr. The online photo community has, for me, been fun, useful, amusing, educational and immensely interactive. Flickr helped popularize the whole concept of folksonomy tagging. And their secret formula for calculating ‘interestingness’ has an uncanny knack for surfacing truly amazing photos. What exactly is interestingness? Well, it’s a […]
From the stratosphere to the blogosphere
Six-and-a-half hour flights can be long. Fortunately, Lufthansa business class provides some amazing services that make the time fly by. First, there is a standard power outlet, so I can plug my laptop without any sort of adapter. This is important because even with the super-sized battery for my Thinkpad, it still burns through it in about […]
No Skype for you!
It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. When I ask my co-workers back home if they’ve heard of Skype, most respond with something like “What’s Skype?” In the U.S., unless you make frequent calls overseas, you don’t need to worry about VoIP technology like Skype. Long distance phone calls are generally cheap or […]
On the Road (or in the air)
As hard as it may seem to be, my quest to become the world’s busiest man has been a big success. Tomorrow, it kicks into high gear with a business trip involving speaking on knowledge management, performing usability testing, and visiting some far flung offices, including: Abu Dhabi and Dubai, United Arab Emirates Kuwait Gliwice, […]