In the spirit of Web 2.0ish secrecy, I’m going to be releasing a new application very soon. I’d give you all a teaser, but I can’t think up something distinctly short and Valleywagish to put on it. And I’d give you all invite codes, but I think the whole invite codes thing is fucking stupid and against the ideas which underpin Web 2.0 - that of openness and transparency - by turning it into a cliquey, nepotistic game of “hunt the invite” which bores the living fuck out of me. Anyway, once the server is up, you’ll hear about it first here, or probably on a mailing list. Those on the mailing list will know who they are. “;->”
Okay, a few more rules of the game: the site is in LAMP (not Rails), it will use Ajax, it will have a light blue colour scheme, it services a community (or “vertical market”, if you’re being 1.0) of which I am a quite active member, will have RSS feed(s), user registration and possibly something to do with OPML, although I haven’t quite thought that bit through yet. It is a one man band in design, but not necessarily in other ways. Think about that, and you will probably understand what I am doing.
The site has launched in super-private beta. That means I’m using it and haven’t told anyone about it yet. See how annoying this is? “;->”
Damn, my host is being an arse. It’ll be worth the wait, folks. I’m just preloading it with data.
I heard, thank you, Dr. Fran! And thanks, Madge for the mention. Love your show.
This is the best story you’ll read for a while. Seriously. We need to teach kids to be addicted to the Internet. More on that soon.
Okay, launchtime: FreethoughtFilter. It’s digg for atheism!
An old site I used a lot, emulation.net, still exists. Nice. Might be able to play some of my old (legally-owned) games on my Mac.
You won’t believe this folks, but I’m using my top-of-the-range MacBook Pro to play Sonic 3. And I suck at it. Actually, not too much.
