http://mike.kruckenberg.com/ Thoughts on technology, recreation, society, etc en-us Copyright 2010 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:35:30 -0500 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:58:41 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=5.01 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/barbados_trip_comes_to_close.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/barbados_trip_comes_to_close.html Recreation Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:35:30 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/vacation_exclusively_filmed_on_iphone_using_owle_bubo.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/vacation_exclusively_filmed_on_iphone_using_owle_bubo.html Recreation Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:17:45 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/feels-like-july-in-barbados.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2010/02/feels-like-july-in-barbados.html Recreation Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:29:07 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gentry-underwood-iterative-design.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gentry-underwood-iterative-design.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:52:59 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/scott-berkun-confessions-of-a-public-speaker.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/scott-berkun-confessions-of-a-public-speaker.html Society Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:30:47 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gina-trapani-how-wave-won-my-heart.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/gina-trapani-how-wave-won-my-heart.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:59 -0500 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,... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/baratunde-thurston-theres-a-hashtag-for-that.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/baratunde-thurston-theres-a-hashtag-for-that.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:42:31 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/css3-for-working-web-designers.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/css3-for-working-web-designers.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:08:57 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/launchpad-at-web-20-expo.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/launchpad-at-web-20-expo.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:39:21 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/digg-moved-from-mysql-to-cassandra.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/digg-moved-from-mysql-to-cassandra.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:18:26 -0500 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.... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/chris-brogan-at-web-20-expo.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/chris-brogan-at-web-20-expo.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:51:56 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/tim-oreilly-the-war-on-the-web.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/tim-oreilly-the-war-on-the-web.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:09:21 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/html-5-and-the-future-of-web-apps.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/html-5-and-the-future-of-web-apps.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:05:09 -0500 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... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/nosql-the-shift-to-a-nonrelational-world.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/nosql-the-shift-to-a-nonrelational-world.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:03:56 -0500 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.... http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/the-hidden-cost-of-social-sites.html http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2009/11/the-hidden-cost-of-social-sites.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:00:34 -0500