TechnoMagicians Blog

Yet another BlogChat type chat has been getting some hype lately. I've pointed out about a dozen similar chats over the last couple of years mostly due to their similarity to BlogChat that Brent Ashley and I developed in 2002. 3Bubbles falls into the same category. Brent blogged about it here. Here is how they […]

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Due to all the gun violence around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) there is discussion going on about banning toy guns. Read the article from the Toronto star here. Lets analyse this for 2 seconds and see how ridiculous this is. They have this all backwards. They are going to stop kids from playing cops and robbers […]

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Its about time Vonage and others like them get a clue. Although its likely too late for me as I've gone with the competition that was a bit smarter than them from the get go.

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It was a very ugly win but a win none the less. I'll take it considering the disappointment over the past 10 years when they were supposed to do better!!! It is time to work on 6 for next year!!!

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Couldn't agree more. Had to copy it here cause of the mention of AJAX and KoZmo. From this TechDirt article: There's been lots of talk about the possibility of “Bubble 2.0,” which (so far) appears to be taking a lot of ideas from the original dot com bubble, and using dynamic HTML to make it […]

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I haven't said anything this year about the Steelers and I don't want to jinx anything by saying much here other than I'll certainly be watching the game closely.

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Well, I noticed that my prototype example as described in my previous part 1 post was broken as I suspected would happen at some point. So, I decided I would spend a few minutes and modify it to use the Google API. The API wasn't available when I first started putting this together so I had […]

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First time I heard about these guys since my post in June. Looks like nothing much happening there according to TechCrunch. Not like I'm going to look further but made me chuckle this morning.

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I'm getting really really tired of seeing everything hyped up and sprinkled with AJAX fairy dust. I've been tired of it for about 8 months now but haven't brought myself to blog about it so here it goes. If your only claim to fame for your website is the fact that it is using AJAX, […]

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Here is yet another e-learning website with nothing new except a bit of AJAX fairy dust sprinkled on it, some Web 2.0 wording and claims of breaking new ground. It amazes me that it will (already seems to be) get the kind of hype they are looking for. I don't want to completely rip apart Nuvvo as […]

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