Phil Butler Unplugged

Hakia, perhaps the Web’s front-runner in the search race to relevance, just won the coveted Webware 100 award for “Search and Reference”. Of course Webware 100 recognizes the very best in Web 2.0 sites and hakia has been one of the leading innovators in the quest for semantic and more relevant search since last [...]

I have decided to redouble my dedication to being unplugged. In this, my first post of the post “writer’s block”, I shall attempt nothing short of proving that God exists. I know, my readers are saying: “Uh oh – unplugged just got unhinged.” This is not the case however, but rather that I think from [...]

Just when you thought no widget had been left unturned, JS-Kit released another cool one today. The Score widget is a fairly simple tool that emulates the thumbs up voting widget on Digg. However, this variant is a good deal more powerful in that it enhances the blog or site it is deployed on. [...]

An interesting aspect of Web 2.0 and all the hundreds of startups that sprung up as a result of it, is that so many have failed. Even more interesting is the fact that a few of the really fantastic ones are still progressing even without proper funding. I have seen so many millions of dollars [...]