I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]
New England GiveCamp 2010: What A Great Experience
The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]
A Beginning Entrepreneur’s Guide To Pricing, Part 2: How Price Conveys Value
When I previously wrote about how to price professional services, I noted that my strategy is to price toward the higher end of the market. That is, my rates tend to be higher than most, because I believe that price conveys value. People instinctively assume the price of something directly correlates to its quality — [...]
Goodbye To Yahoo! Answers: It’s Best We Part
Yahoo! suspended my Answers account today, for reasons they did not disclose but of which I am fairly certain. I made the mistake a few weeks back of calling out a sock puppeteer via e-mail, after about a month of his using his puppets to vote down my answers and vote up his. I noted [...]
