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Year: 2006

  • Yahoo Mail upgrade

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    I just noticed several really nice additions to my Yahoo Mail. One reason I like web based apps is that you open your mail app one day and it just got better. No downloads, no system reboots, no waiting. New features I noticed: A new way of handling attachments inline with the message, seems much…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part III

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    I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my progress on getting my diesel Land Rover into the country and running on biodiesel. Well, some things have gone well and some haven’t :). In my last installment I described how I had found a diesel Land Rover from an outfit called UK LandRovers in, you guessed…

  • Approver.com

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    Jeffrey McManus just announced a new product called Approver.com. Jeffrey and I used to work together at Yahoo on the Yahoo Developer Network where he did an excellent job building the original team of YDN evangelists and community managers. Approver looks like a highly useful web service that handles document approval workflow for teams (a…

  • Yahoo Music, one year later

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    It’s been almost a year since I switched from iTunes to Yahoo Music. Time for an update. I’d say I’m 80% happy with my switch. I have little to no desire to switch back, primarily because Yahoo offers unlimited access to over a million songs, so you can search for any song and play it…

  • FOO

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    I had a fabulous time at FOO camp this weekend. What a great event for getting the creative juices going. Among lots of interesting projects, a few that stood out to me: the Chumby was previewed at the camp and sure looks like it will be a hit. Aside from a great name (a chummy…

  • WordPress anniversary

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    WordPress.com turns 1 – yay! I really liked Lorelle’s post about it.

  • WordCamp 2006 wrapup

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    WordCamp was a great day of meeting WordPress people and learning new things for me. It’s very fun to work on a project that has such engaged and enthusiastic users and contributors. Though I spent a lot of the day setting up and organizing things, I did listen in on various discussions and took away the…

  • Aurora Biofuels

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    I’ve been wanting to mention that I am angel investor in Aurora Biofuels. From their site: Aurora’s proprietary technology, developed at The University of California, Berkeley, allows Aurora BioFuels to create bio-diesel with 125X higher yields and 50% lower costs than current production methods. They are a small, impressive team with a promising plan to…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part II

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    After deciding to give biodiesel a try, I had to get a diesel car. It’s not the easiest task in the world to find a good diesel in San Francisco. Because of current regulations, you can’t buy a new diesel in California. So cars like the Jeep Liberty CRD, or the various new diesel Volkswagen’s…

  • Meebo map

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    Seth just pointed me to this cool map of global IM activity. Fascinating.

  • Switching to biodiesel, part I

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    Back in February, Braughm gave me the idea to try out biodiesel. Pretty soon thereafter, I decided that I want to switch my primary car over to a renewable fuel. This has taken a little bit of research, which I’d like to share here. Step 1 was to pick a fuel. My requirements Replace my…

  • WordPress user conference

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    Matt announced that we’re going to host a WordPress user conference on Aug 5th. Here’s the site for it. The whole Automattic team will be together in person for the first time during the week leading up to and at the conference. Come join us, should be a lot of fun!

  • MacBook update

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    Some thoughts after using my MacBook for a few weeks. What I like: Wake up and shut down work really well when you open/shut the lid. It’s fast and reliable. I’ve always wanted this on a laptop and it’s never really worked on any of my PCs. I loaded all my photos into iPhoto and…

  • Enterprise blogging

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    Hot on the heels of our announcement of offering professional support for WordPress, Forrester Research has released a market research report on enterprise blogging. They looked at lots of blogging platforms and analyzed their suitability for enterprise deployments. The great news: they named WordPress one of the leaders in the space, specifically they put WordPress…

  • Automattic Support Network

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    I'm excited to tell you that we are releasing the Automattic Support Network today. It's an enterprise support subscription service designed for companies who would like to deploy WordPress or WordPress MU and purchase professional support to back up their deployment. WordPress is already used to power blogs and sites by several well known large…

  • MySpace content ownership

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    Musicians are starting to pull content off of MySpace because MySpace's terms of use claim ownership of anything you put on their service: Musicians' rights: Lost in MySpace?