For the past week or so, I have been experimenting with the Pixel Slate, Google’s new hybrid tablet/laptop. Here is me typing this blog post...
More and more, recently, I’ve been noticing web services that use Dropbox for storing user data. For example,1Password, OneName and Diaro. With all...
Last week, having been inspired by (of all things) this awesome and awful samsung gear commercial, i ordered a Pebble smartwatch. I can’t...
For some reason I have always liked talking to taxi drivers about their business. Maybe it’s because my dad was a NYC taxi driver back in the 70s...
When we got home from vacation last night, my new Chromecast was sitting waiting for me. I’ve been really psyched to try it out. The out-of...
Despite the extent to which I talk and think about car sharing and other newly possible. web-enabled modes of transportation, the truth is I...
I’ve always loved Mozilla‘s mission and tactics – using awesome consumer products as the lever to make the web a better place to be...
Yesterday Uber made me feel like a superhero. It was about 10 degrees in Boston, and I was on the T on my way into Cambridge. And as we pulled...
I love Google Reader. I’ve used it for a long long time now to keep tabs on things. I suppose it’s an old school method at this point, but I...
A few things happened recently, which are causing an unexpected and totally interesting change in my digital life. 1) On the last day of our...
I wrote the other day about wanting a better way to share slide presentations. I think there is a huge opportunity here, and I don’t think...
I get way too much spam in my inbox, even just counting things I’ve signed up for myself. Most of it I delete, but today’s email from...
Today, I got my first dose of Twitter smack down, as my account was suspended along with a bunch of others following yesterday’s Gov 2.0 Expo. ...
I spent most of this morning looking back through old posts about the Chandler Project and OSAF. I’ve thought about this a lot, due to the...
Here at TOPP, we’ve been using Fresh Direct for a while now for our office groceries (even while being critical of them on one of our blogs). ...
For a while now, I’ve been using Chandler to keep track of my to-dos. Chandler is a semi-historic open source project which I’ve been...
I stumbled upon SmartyPig this week while looking through the Happy Cog website, after reading a Zeldman post, linked to by Daring Fireball, which...
I came across a post this morning about a new service called Sendible. The basic idea is this: create messages of various types (email, sms, twitter...