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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.Many of us have recognized for some time that the Web is becoming what we might call “dummied”. For lack of a better term and by way of a definition, this simply means that the majority [...]

This is the story of Dominic Tan and Juancho Del Castillo, who use Iceberg to build up their business. An impactful story that shows that in a fast Web 2.0 world dominated by superfluous applications and services, there are still services that bring value in our lives.
We read about a new Web service every day, [...]

From all the StumbleUpon shouts I received today two really intrigued me. They both led to articles covering a “hot” new release – another search engine is on the loose.
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) states that it “searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as [...]

If you think about it we are all a product of so many variables, not the least of which is environment. Somehow we all intrinsically know this, but are so often distracted and obtuse as to just how much a hometown or place can be a part of us. For me personally, I know that [...]

The first couple of months I spent here in Germany fairly dashed some of my perceptions of both the people and the essence of the place. I expect this is true for most visitors, and certainly my “American” sense of old world charm was slightly skewed by not so much disinformation as being [...]