Monthly Archives: August 2008

Ubiquity cracks open personal mashup tinkering

When I was a wee hacker, I lived my digital life though a Commodore 64. I played games on it, did homework, talked to people far away—you know, all the stuff they showed in the pictures on the box. I also took things apart—both the machine itself and software running on it. [...]

Moz08: Rockslides and Blackouts and Bears – Oh My!

Since the beginning, I’ve been a Mozilla fanboy. But, up until very recently, I’ve only shown that as a user and a verbal supporter, with a shallow understanding or participation in what’s really done in the Mozilla community. Sure, I’ve checked out source code from time to time going back to the first [...]

Delicious 2.0 is more than a pretty new face

I’m no longer at Yahoo! and I no longer work on Delicious, but I’m still a huge supporter. And, since I’m pretty sure everyone over there is either burnt out or still insanely busy at the moment, it might be awhile before anyone tells the full story of what this relaunch offers. As [...]

delicious 2.0 legacy bookmarklet fix

As you’ve probably seen by now, Delicious 2.0 has launched. It’s an all new design and the whole thing has been rewritten from the ground up. Most of the gripes I’ve seem like general dislike of change—which actually attests to the gargantuan effort put forth to reimplement the original from scratch in a [...]