http://mike.kruckenberg.com/ Thoughts on technology, recreation, society, etc en-us 2010-02-21T18:35:30-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/barbados_trip_comes_to_close.html It's hard to believe a week has gone by, but it's our last night in Barbados. Has been an awesome trip, we feel very fortunate to be able to come for a week to unthaw and unwind. We're all feeling... Recreation mike 2010-02-21T18:35:30-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/vacation_exclusively_filmed_on_iphone_using_owle_bubo.html I'm trying an experiment. Every year the family takes a winter vacation to somewhere warm. Every year I lug a bunch of chargers, cables, tapes, and a video camera along to document. When I get home (or in the... Recreation mike 2010-02-19T15:17:45-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/feels-like-july-in-barbados.html While Boston gets hammered with another snowstorm we're relaxing on the beach in Barbados. Clear, blue water splashing up onto the beach, hot sun on our skin. Something quite magical about being able to hop on a plane and within... Recreation mike 2010-02-16T05:29:07-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gentry-underwood-iterative-design.html There were lots of good keynote talks this morning at Web 2.0 Expo NYC. One that stood out to me was Gentry Underwood, who's talking about how there were two players in origins of computer interaction design, the human and... Technology mike 2009-11-19T10:52:59-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/scott-berkun-confessions-of-a-public-speaker.html Listening to a great talk from Scott Berkun at Web 2.0 Expo NYC. Scott talks about his years as a writer and speaker in technology over the years and how things have changed. He attended an internet conference here at... Society mike 2009-11-18T14:30:47-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gina-trapani-how-wave-won-my-heart.html Listening to Gina Trapani at Web 2.0 Expo NYC talking about Google Wave. It's hard to explain in one sentence what Google Wave is. The Google video says it's what email would have been like if it had been invented... Technology mike 2009-11-18T14:13:59-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/baratunde-thurston-theres-a-hashtag-for-that.html Listening to Baratunde Thurston at Web 2.0 Expo NYC. Baratunde is the web editor at the onion. Talks about #SwineFlu. Baratunde became the swine flu on twitter going after people, talking about travels around the world. Hilarious. Talks about #HowBlackAreYou,... Technology mike 2009-11-18T13:42:31-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/css3-for-working-web-designers.html Listening to Hakon Wium Lie (CTO for Opera Software, friend of Tim Burners Lee) at the Web 2.0 Expo NYC speaking about CSS3. Hakon was first at CERN, the physics laboratory. He got to work with Tim Burners Lee, and... Technology mike 2009-11-18T11:08:57-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/launchpad-at-web-20-expo.html Decided to swing into launchpad this morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. ap((strata Managing servers suck, ap((strata data hub is a way to store anything, from any application, from any device. Allows you to create APIs to let... Technology mike 2009-11-18T09:39:21-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/digg-moved-from-mysql-to-cassandra.html At today's Web 2.0 Expo keynote with Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson they mentioned they'd done a lot of architecture work on Digg including moving things from MySQL to Cassandra. I guess something like this was on the table in... Technology mike 2009-11-17T20:18:26-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/chris-brogan-at-web-20-expo.html When talking about using social media Chris Brogan (New Marketing Labs) says listen more than you speak, and when you speak spend 80% of your time talking about something other than yourself.... Technology mike 2009-11-17T13:51:56-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/tim-oreilly-the-war-on-the-web.html Tim O'Reilly is giving a keynote at Web 2.0 Expo NYC. Talks about the next war in the web. Not so much about browsers like it was in the early days of the web, more about what businesses are doing... Technology mike 2009-11-17T13:09:21-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/html-5-and-the-future-of-web-apps.html I'm at Web 2.0 Expo NYC listening to Tom Hughes-Croucher (Yahoo! Developer Network) talk about HTML 5. [battery running low...won't get it all] The web has been made exciting by Ajax. HTML 5 is about these revolutionary technologies; graphics, fast... Technology mike 2009-11-17T11:05:09-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/nosql-the-shift-to-a-nonrelational-world.html I'm at Web 2.0 Expo NYC listening to Dwight Merriman (from 10gen / MongoDB) talk about NoSQL. Dwight was CTO/co-founder at doubleclick. RDBMS (Oracle,MySQL) used to be the one-size-fits-all database thrown on the back of every piece of software. There... Technology mike 2009-11-17T10:03:56-05:00 http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/the-hidden-cost-of-social-sites.html I'm at Web 2.0 Expo NYC listening to Ron Surfield (Turner Broadcasting) talking about the experience of building social media for businesses. Social sites are defined as those including content created by users. Includes things like comments, submissions, ratings, etc.... Technology mike 2009-11-17T09:00:34-05:00