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By adamg - 11/20/07 - 12:24 am
Several hundred local technology entrepreneurial types gathered Friday to shmooze and thump their chests in the direction of Silicon Valley, at a meetup at the Estate organized by Michael Arrington's Techcrunch and local venture-capital firm IDG Ventures. Some accounts:
By adamg - 11/19/07 - 8:38 am
Verizon workers protesting outside the home of Verizon New England's general manager on Sunday. At issue: Work schedules for employees installling FiOS (the company's answer to cable broadband).
They're not the only ones complaining about FiOS installation issues (even more).
By adamg - 11/15/07 - 9:00 am
GPC discusses a Computerworld article about "Generation V" - people who live much of their lives online:
By adamg - 11/8/07 - 7:58 am
NaviSite, based in Andover, bought some hosting company in Baltimore and decided to move all its servers to Massacusetts. But as Jeff Cutler explains, instead of doing it the right way (buying new servers, getting them running in Andover, then using that wacky thing called the Internet to move all the data from Baltimore to Andover), they did it the majorly wrong way (put all the Baltimore servers in trucks, then drive them up to Massachusetts):
By adamg - 11/6/07 - 9:46 am
Memo to Comcast: You do not want to mess with a guy like Jonathan Kamens, who knows how to do things like measure broadband throughput and who will quickly call you on the fact that the 6 Mbps service you sold him in fact was only delivering 4 Mbps:
By adamg - 11/6/07 - 9:03 am
Sarah Wurrey wonders:
What social media tool can you not live without? If Facebook goes down for the day, are you lost? Or can you not survive without your daily dose of Flickr pics? Are you hopeless without del.icio.us?
By adamg - 10/22/07 - 3:12 pm
Rem wonders if Boston is once again far behind Silicon Valley, this time when it comes to Web 2.0 startups.
By anon - 8/20/07 - 1:45 pm
Ok, so I've been living in Boston for 2 years and there's still so much for me to see. The internet is nice but so impersonal, and I for one don't like PDAs and Blackberry type of things. My biggest help has been MAP BOSTON. For anyone who graduated recently and and wants to add a little adventure into their daily organization, MAP BOSTON is made for you. Imagine a day planner fused with a city guide for locals. It rocks, it's fun, and it's worth checking out.
By adamg - 8/1/07 - 9:33 pm
If you don't have children, doesn't that Verizon commercial with the smug little kid babbling about true QAM make you want to run out and buy three different kinds of contraception, just to be on the safe side?
Tom Wright-Piersanti translates the technobabble:
By adamg - 7/22/07 - 5:27 pm
Gene Koo likes the publicity his Hub2 project got on the front page of the Globe, but says there's a lot more to the concept:
By adamg - 7/20/07 - 4:05 pm
Don't look at me - except during the 5:30, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. business segments on NECN tonight - where you can catch me babbling about how hard it will be for Google to defeat Microsoft, along with Sharon Machlis of Computerworld (who apparently doesn't share my feelings; could she be the nemesis I've long sought? Nah, she's too nice).
By hrose - 6/29/07 - 9:12 am
I'm at Cambridgeside Galleria (and have been here since about 5:30) in line for the iPhone. There are a number of people here, I'm about tenth out of twenty or twenty five. Some are more "hard core" than others. WBZ radio was here earlier, and the television crews were interviewing as well.
The mall security staff have done a decent job roping off a separate area for the line while still leaving access to other stores. Of course, the only stores open as of right now are food - Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks.
At least the air conditioning is on, it wasn't when we first came in at 6am. Of course the "Mall Radio" is playing as well. I'm just as glad I've got my iPod with me.
A little less than nine hours to go!
By adamg - 6/15/07 - 9:25 am
Do a search on cityofboston.gov, either there or on, say, Google, and you'll notice that almost every single document comes up with a title of
City of Boston
Given that the city obviously has no way of figuring out how to give documents proper meta description tags, this makes the searches fairly useless, since there's no quick way to tell what the results are about.
By adamg - 6/7/07 - 9:07 am
Looks like somebody is getting ready to add street-level views of the Boston area to online maps (so in addition to seeing just a plain map or a satelllite view, you'll be able to zoom in at the street level). Charles Bandes photographed the photographers as they drove through Cambridge:
By adamg - 6/7/07 - 8:55 am
Basically, the company should provide what it promised before asking the state to give it special treatment when it comes to local cable regulation, Bruce Kushnick argues:
By adamg - 6/4/07 - 9:16 am
Ari finds a Craigslist ad from some publishing company that says it needs a copy editor in David Square, Somerville.
By adamg - 5/22/07 - 7:53 am
The Herald claims it may be an urban legend, but Harry Mattison wonders which Thai restaurant in Allston has a basement refrigerator stocked with new stem cells.
By adamg - 5/10/07 - 11:15 am
So I'm sitting down at the dining-room table around 9 to start work when, one by one, all my 'Net connections die: Mail starts flashing it can't connect to my mail server; a Web site I'd tried to go to comes back as an error page. The VPN dies. Go upstairs to reset the DSL modem. Nothing. Reboot. Nothing. Grr. So I pack up and drive to the office way out in Southborough, since I don't think Emack & Bolio's would appreciate me just sitting there for eight hours, working.
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