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I had the pleasure of meeting German Martinez and Juan Pablo Scaletti on my recent trip to Lima at the local BeerTwit twitter and blogger meetup. These two guys are the brains behind Prezentit, a very cool new service that lets you build robust slideshows/presentations directly in your browser (without Flash!).
German was gracious enough [...]

Recien tuve la oportunidad de visitar a Lima, Peru y tuve la fortunidad de poder encontrarme con el grupo de twitters y bloggers aya. Durante esta reunion conoci por primera vez a German y Juan Pablo de Prezentit, un nuevo sitio para armar presentaciones sin tener que instalar cualquier software en tu systema.
German me hizo [...]

After my blitz trip through lima this past weekend it came to my attention that there is huge amount of underlying potential for the web in this part of the world, but its missing key components needed to grow. I spoke with a number of very intelligent and very in touch people who understand [...]

So this friday I will be meeting up with twitter users in Lima, Peru for BeerTwit. The concept of meeting up with virtual friends in real life is one that intrigues me, and I see it gaining lots and lots of steam in the near future. Its really amazed me that users are finding each [...]

So you might be thinking, why on earth would this be a good deal for either party? How can two also-rans of the internet fit well together? How can they compete against the all mighty goog? Well this harks back to my theory on the evolution of advertising and the shift to behavioral advertising.
At the [...]

What? Twitter can be a feature in my app? How can a web service like twitter be a function of my app?  If you look below the surface of twitter, it is a pure web service, and I mean service from an API perspective.  Lets keep that in mind as we explore this further.
So how [...]

So ever since launching Twitbin (I know it was Friday, but it seems like an eternity now), I’ve noticed a cyclical occurrence in my surfing habits. Twitter has overtaken feeds as far as my attention is concerned. But it really stems back to college when people would watch other people’s away messages to see what [...]

Some of you may know I like the allofmp3.com site, its sort of a sneaky jab at the RIAA. But where is the movie/tv show equivalent of allofmp3? I know there has to be a similar loophole in russian law to allow for sales of digital duplicates of movies…
they could even save on costs and [...]

After reading Karel Baloun’s post on facebook over at mashable, one thing stuck out in my mind: Karel argues that yahoo doesn’t seem to tie its properties in together. He uses 360, flickr, upcoming, and delicious as examples where yahoo has failed to integrate the sites together, but what if they just aren’t there yet? [...]

So in continuing my building web apps series (can’t remember when the last one was), I’ve decided to address the issue of why people continue to complain that most web2.0 apps are just features in a bigger picture. Here is the simple reason: web2.0 apps are cheap to build. Why are they cheap? Because when [...]