Those of you who were paying attention last week might be wondering about the Apple vs. Vista challenge that I threw down. Well, I’m on a Macbook Pro now, I just finished setting up Parallels with a copy of Vista Ultimate, and I’m about to begin some of my work.
I Miss Windows Live Writer…
It was [...]

I was contacted by a very polite employee from Packt Publishing who asked me if I’d be willing to review one of their brand new ASP.NET books, ASP.NET Data Presentation Controls Essentials. I’m not going to add any referral links for this product as it would be a conflict of interest; the only compensation [...]

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,” [...]

If you’ve ever read the about page on AjaxNinja.com you’d know that I’m graduating from Vanderbilt University this semester and I’m looking to join a hot Silicon Valley startup in the Summer of 2008 upon my graduation in May. I’ve decided to go ahead and profile some interesting startups in Silicon Valley that don’t receive [...]

It’s about time that AjaxNinja got its own unique theme and design; I simply have not had the time nor the desire to poke around in the PHP code and make the necessary changes myself.
I’m looking for a brave WP Theme designer out there who’s willing to cook up a unique theme for AjaxNinja, for [...]

Google has conducted a lot of business transactions lately that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, initially.
Here’s a quick list of some of Google’s recent key acquisitions, in no particular order.

In October, 2007 they acquired Jaiku, a Twitter clone, for $30 million dollars. (I liked the Uncov article better than the TechCrunch/Mashable [...]

I spend a lot of time reading blog entries on the subject of Web 2.0 and business activities related to Web 2.0 every day; I read them before I even check out the latest headlines on Drudge. All-too-often I come across some headlines on TechCrunch, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and, to my ever-lasting surprise and disgust, VentureBeat [...]