Today I got a call from an employer who wanted to set up a lunch meeting to discuss a possible internship; I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary until my contact dropping the following bombshell on me:
We were outsourcing our test cycle to a firm in India that specializes in this kind of [...]

On Friday night I decided to sit down and start work on a new project that I had been mulling over for a couple of days, but this time I was going to build the new service from the top-down, rather than from the bottom-up.
I’d start by building the end user experience first then shape [...]

In early December I picked up my new Dell XPS M1330 laptop which I ordered without any Microsoft Office products preloaded on it. I decided that for a month or so I would try life without Microsoft Office and see if Google Docs could really fill in the void. After all, Michael Arrington said he [...]

In this interview I ask HubPages’ CEO Paul Edmondson about the future of HubPages, about his experience with Microsoft, and what HubPages is “looking for” as far as monetizeable content is concerned. If you missed my initial Startup Spotlight on HubPages then you should give it a read.

How quickly is HubPages growing? What are your [...]

When I logged into my WordPress Administration area for AjaxNinja today I saw an interesting entry on Matt Mullenweg’s (original WordPress founder) blog. His entry was called “Graffiti Disses WordPress,” and it linked to an entry on Charles Stricklin’s blog, which contained detailed criticism of Telligent’s advertising campaign for its new Graffiti CMS.
“What is Graffiti,” [...]

Props to Korayem for Stumbling the AddOn Studio for WoW.

It’s not often that I get to mention WoW in the subjects that I blog about on AjaxNinja, but this article practically wrote itself the moment I saw the AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on CodePlex.
What is an addon for World of Warcraft?
If you [...]

The biggest story in online business for 2007 was (arguably) Facebook’s rise to power and the onslaught of relentless hype & buzz after the announcement of the F8 platform. I have blogged many of my thoughts about proper approaches to monetizing Facebook applications I haven’t yet discussed Facebook’s "grand strategy" to produce some profit [...]

The New Year is here and a number of the Web 2.0 blogs have looked at the highs and lows from 2007, but I want to focus on the tech frontier and what’s coming down the pike for Web 2.0.
1. Google Sees Failure for the First Time
According to Yahoo! Finance, GOOG is sitting comfortably at [...]

I got an email last night from one of my email subcribers last night; I was told that the FeedBurner email feeds are almost unreadable due to the extremly small size of the fonts. Apparently, the default FeedBurner email syndication font sizes are almost illegible; I’ve more than doubled the font size so it should [...]