Category Archives: Web/Tech

Dropbox beta

Not sure if anyone is interested, but I have a few beta signup codes for Dropbox, the cross-platform file sharing service.
Email me @ mike@morrowplanet.com if you’d like one.
Update: my supply of beta codes for Dropbox is gone! Thanks.

A Different Kind of GooglePhone

It seems like the Mrs. and I constantly buy new landline phones. We haven’t even been married all that long, but we’ve owned at least three sets of phones since then. They break, the batteries refuse to hold a charge, one of the kids throws it on the floor until it shatters, etc.
Landline phone makers [...]

Evernote beta

I have a few invitations into the beta of the new Evernote. It’s like a cross-platform outboard brain, and is starting to look pretty slick.
If you are interested in the beta, drop me a note using this form.

Buy 3 copies: Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody

Simply put, you should buy three copies of Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. One for yourself, one for your boss, and one for anyone else in your life who isn’t “getting” the social technology revolution.
It’s a great read for those who are already in this Internet thing to win, but I think its real [...]

Whoa: FeedBurner snatched by Google

From Feedburner blog:
FeedBurner has been acquired by Google. The local weather forecast calls for general euphoria with intermittent periods of off-the-rails delight.

Where the Words Are, Google Book Search style

Matthew Gray, Google engineer, created an interesting task for himself using data from the mother ship’s controversial book scanning project (Google Book Search):
We’ve all seen views of the Earth from space, where the numerous pinpoints of light on the ground combine to yield a speckled map of the world. I wanted to show the Earth [...]

The martians have landed, and they are Google.

Behold, Google Mars.

As Mur Lafferty (I Should Be Writing, Geek Fu Action Grip) might say, geekgasm!

[Thanks Jamie!]

The end of the world as we know it?

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (of Institute for the Future’s Future Now) has started a new blog, which looks very promising: The End of Cyberspace

An “iPod moment” for newspapers?

In today’s NYT David Carr writes "Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod":

The newspaper business is in a horrible state. It’s not that papers don’t make money. They make plenty. But not many people, or at least not many on Wall Street, see a future in them. In an attempt to leave the forest of [...]

Ning it!

If you pay any attention the tech buzz and general Web 2.0 hullabaloo, you’ve already heard about today’s rollout of Ning, a kind of DIY social application platform. So now, you or I can build our own version of del.icio.us, flickr, craigslist or whatever.
One of the applications already gaining some traction from the Ning launch [...]

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