CommonTag – A Long Overdue Effort
When I started tagging in its early days, I was wondering about the silos it will end up creating due to the lack of any standardized approach to tagging. But, I also realized that tagging, however chaotic it could be, is better than not having one. The efforts on the Semantic Web front gave me [...]
Windows Live Writer: The Race for Memory
The other day I posted a screen print of Windows Live Writer (the one and only client app I really like) eating up 85% of CPU and 1.2G memory. That’s pretty bad. Then I did a test: open up WLW fresh, open a draft post, then minimize WLW, and see how fast it would bring [...]
Zemanta for Email – But Why?
I really do like Zemanta the discovery and recommendation engine. It’s my favorite blogging plug-in, and I am so hooked on it that I even declared I’d rather pay for it than lose it, despite the sometimes funny pics. Today Zemanta released several new features – some I just love, others leave me scratching my [...]
New York Times Extra: Who Cares About Clutter, It’s All Good
Isn’t it funny how a move by traditional media can divide the blogosphere? Today’s move is by none other than The New York Times: they opened up their front page to third party content. If you enable Times Extra, you get up to eight related stories beneath each NYT main story. These stories are picked [...]
Gotta Love those Zemanta Pics
Image via Wikipedia I love Zemanta. It’s my favorite blogging plug-in, and I am so hooked on it that I even declared I’d rather pay for it than lose it. Fortunately that may not be necessary for a while: at the recent Defrag Conference I met co-Founder & CTO Andraz Tori, who told me about [...]
