2007–2009
305 posts
2009 165
December 2009
- What To Expect in 2010
- RegularGeek Most Talked About Posts of 2009
- Farewell MyBlogLog, You Could Have Been A Contender
- RSS Readers Are Fine, But They Are Niche Products
- Are We Simler? A Chat With Ryan Goodwin
- Software Engineering Tasks: Design
- The Fight For Data Intensifies
- Happy 2nd Birthday Regular Geek
- Google Shows Us The Future
- Can You Defend Your Technical Decisions?
- Is Google Public DNS A Marketing Data Warehouse?
- Google And Facebook Find Allies In Digital Identity Battle
- Google Gears Sunsets As HTML5 Dawns
November 2009
- YackTrack Has A Blog!
- Twitter Is Fighting With Their Users For Metadata
- Just Go Out And Buy Trust Agents
- ChromeOS Will Fail, Unless Its Purpose Is Not To Succeed
- YackTrack Server Maintenance
- Yahoo Slowly Slimming Its Services
- Google Makes A Bid To Control The Internet
- Want Women In Tech, Find The Role Models
- It Is Official, Twitter Is The Microblogging De Facto Standard
- Is Twitter Trying To Lure You Back To Twitter.com?
- Google Announces Major Social and E-Commerce Push
- You Need a Foundation Before You Can Be Awesome
- Twitter Lists Are Not About Discovery
October 2009
- Has Google Gone Evil?
- Last Chance To Donate To DonorsChoose
- Social Search Is Useless Without Context
- What Is Kosmix? A Short Q&A With Venky Harinarayan
- Real Time Search Is Just A Foundation, There Will Be Something Bigger
- Google Reader Adds Magic
- Twitter Lets The Big Boys Handle Search
- I Finally Understand The Power Of Mobile Social Applications
- More From RegularGeek on WorkAwesome.com!
- Process Rarely Fixes The Problem
- Is It Too Little Too Late For Technorati?
- What Is Next For Social Media?
- An Update On The RegularGeek Donors Choose Challenge
- Is Google Sites The Evolution Of Blogger?
- Consumers Will Never Be Truly Secure On The Web
- There Is No Room For Zealotry in Software Development
- Help RegularGeek Help Schools With DonorsChoose.org
- Finally, Twitter Gives Us User Lists!
September 2009
- Google Sites Goes After Enterprise Collaboration
- Should We Buy An eReader Or Wait For Tablets?
- What Do We Expect From A Startup Exit?
- Riding The Wave With Groundswell
- YackTrack Now Sends Email Notifications
- Application Development May Never Be Easy
- Can Google Do No Wrong?
- Why Did Intuit Buy Mint?
- Facebook Lite Is Why They Bought FriendFeed
- Building An Application Is Like Building A Table
- Are You Flirting With Burnout And Disaster?
- The Battle For Your Attention: Google And Facebook
- Apple Could Have Been The Microsoft Of Mobile Phones
August 2009
- Why Measure ROI Of Social Media?
- RSS, Human Filters And Real Time Streams
- Web 2.0 Programming Language Job Trends
- A More Serious Look At Google Reader
- Traditional Programming Language Job Trends
- I Love You Google Reader, But We Have Some Issues
- We Are Just Google's Social Test Subjects
- VMware Gets The Source Of Spring
- Why Did Facebook Buy FriendFeed?
- Yet Another Call For A Federated Twitter
- Google Decided Reader Will Be The Real Time Hub
- Are Tablets Doomed To Fail Again?
- Does Your Local Tech Community Have A PR Problem?
July 2009
- Was The Search Battle Already Over?
- Proof That Vendor And Platform Lock-In Suck
- [UPDATED] What Programming Languages Do Jobs Require?
- FriendFeed Is Getting Ripped Off
- What Does Your Development Environment Look Like?
- Google Putting Together A Cash Cow
- (Not So) Shocking News, Google Announces Chrome OS
- Irony Is Still Free
- Who Is Your Audience And Are Audiences Different?
- What Should You Do When Reliable Infrastructure Fails
- Is The Real Time Web A Solution In Search Of A Problem?
June 2009
- Don't Blame The Platform, Blame The People
- More Ways To Share In Facebook, Just Not Easier
- Facebook Is Incrementally Winning the Web
- The Social Media Community Supports The Revolution
- Subscriber Counts Now Mean Nothing
- Good To Great, Not Just For Big Business
- How Much Testing Is Enough?
- Facebook Vanity URLs or Digital Identity For Dummies
- The Radical Change Is Mobile, But Not Development
- Like It Or Not, Twitter Is Becoming Infrastructure
- Google LBC Is A Treasure For Small Business
- Basic Scripting With CSS Selector Rules
May 2009
- Google Wave Redefines The Rules
- Is Our Twitter Myopia Setting Up A Crash?
- Tips For Finding Your Next Software Development Job
- What Should Yahoo Buy?
- American Idol, Crowdsourcing and What Startups Can Learn From It
- I Am Your Filter
- YackTrack Gets A Redesign!
- Is Usable Discovery The Holy Grail?
- The Social Network Business Plan, Strategies From David Silver
- Twitter Needs To Ignore The User
- 8 Sites To Help You Find The Perfect Product
- Talk With Me, Not At Me
- RSS Is Not Dead, It Has A Usability Problem
- Twitter Suitors Revisited
- Why Are We Worried About Cloud Lock-In?
- A Really Gentle Introduction to Data Mining
April 2009
- Is Simple The New Black?
- Facebook Teasing Us With Open
- My Favorite Programming And Computer Science Books
- Twitter Biting The Hand That Feeds It
- In A Surprising Ending, Oracle Buys Sun
- Can OpenID and OAuth Lead Us To Manageable Security?
- Tools For Unit Testing Java Web Applications
- With All This Openness Where Is The Destination?
- A Week With The FriendFeed Beta
- DiggBar Is Welcome Here
- A Simple OpenID Proposal
- Google App Engine Makes A Play For Startups
- Better For You May Not Mean Better For Me
- Microsoft Advertising Immensely Successful
- Knowing Your Audience And Other Presentation Goodness
- If Twitter Is For Sale, Who Should By It?
- Why Is Data So Important?
- Is Twitter Testing New Designs?
March 2009
- Status.net and Laconi.ca Enabling Small Communities
- Social Media Evolution, Are We Losing The Social Part?
- Remember GhostWriting Is Not As Bad As Spam
- Why Do You Write Code?
- Social Media Mining, The Data Is Out There
- API Data Formats You Need To Know
- Sorry Twitter, Facebook Is The Data Gold Mine
- The State Of Social News
- Simple Advice For Learning A Programming Language
- Is Sun Finally Getting Bought By IBM?
- New Alltop Still Not Ready For Mainstream, But It Is Close
- Veri Looks Very Interesting, A Q&A With The CEO
- Facebook Won The Conversation Battle
- Google Reader Hijacking The Conversation
- YAGP: Imitation Of Success Does Not Guarantee Success
- Do You Have A Backup Ready?
- Twitter, The Analytics Provider And Data Mine
- I Am Keeping My RSS Reader
February 2009
- Is Social Media The New PageRank?
- Twitter Is Not Broken, It Is Infrastructure
- Explaining My List of Programming Languages
- Does Location Really Matter?
- Relational Databases Run The World
- What Programming Language Should I Learn?
- Google Has A Storm Brewing
- Are We Following The Wrong People?
- As a Developer, Who Should You Follow?
January 2009
- Do Not Blame the Cloud, It Was Just One Service
- Google Begins Their Plan For Desktop Domination
- Status Updates Are Not Conversation
- Brand, Reputation and Image
- It Is All About Money
- Real Time Information is Just Data, Knowledge Comes Later
- What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong
- YackTrack Will Be Down For Maintenance
- Is Comment Sync From FriendFeed Bad For The Conversation?
- Overnight Success And FriendFeed Needs
- Mainstream Users Do Not Want The News Sites We Give Them
2008 136
December 2008
- Why Social Works Part IV: Final Notes and Future Directions
- Shocking News: People Use Twitter Differently
- What to Expect in 2009
- Why Social Works Part III: Not Just Social Networks
- Just Some Minor YackTrack Tweaking
- Finally Someone Acquires SocialMedian
- Why Social Works Part II: The Ego
- Why Social Works
- RegularGeek 10 Most Talked About Posts
- RegularGeek Is One Year Old!
- GMail Does Tasks! Why?
- Blog Community Widgets Need to Work Together
- YAGP: Blogging’s Future and Administrivia
- Newspapers Report Rumors, No Outcry From Blogosphere
- Conversations Are the Future of Marketing
November 2008
- YackTrack Highlighted in Inc Magazine
- Did Twitter Just Buy Revenue?
- What is The Right Price For Twitter?
- YAGP: Web Apps Should Keep It Simple For Success
- FriendFeed Power Tips
- Managing Online Forums? But I am a Blogger.
- Be Prepared, the Mainstream is Coming
- Yahoo Needs Focus And Someone To Tell Us We Are Wrong
- Finally! YackTrack Gets An Update!
- Line Between the Desktop and Internet is Officially Blurred
- Who Woke The Sleeping Giant?
- For Marketing, Social Media is Budget Friendly and Powerful
- Facebook Is Not The Place To Blow Off Steam
October 2008
- FriendFeed the New Twitter Client
- The Future Will Not Be Televised
- Amazon Windowshop: In a Word, Hot!
- YAGP: Filters and Belief Systems
- Google Should Buy StumbleUpon
- Is TechMeme Really Our Only Option?
- Newspapers, RSS for the Mainstream User
- Companies Got Funding Last Week?
- What is Next? Semantic-Enabled Mobile Applications.
- What is Digg Planning?
- 100 Posts and Other Administrivia
- Fear is not the Answer, It is Time to Adapt
- Facebook is the Key to the Mainstream
- One Month of Chrome
- The Death of TechMeme Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
September 2008
- FriendFeed is a Tool, Use It However You Want
- Calacanis Makes Not-So-Shocking Statement About Startup Failure!
- IntenseDebate, It’s Automattic!
- It is Not About the State of the Blogosphere, It Is About Traffic
- Customer Service Can Make the Difference
- Sometimes You Need To Be Resistant To Change
- What Can Developers Learn From the Financial Crisis?
- Insights From Three Years of Blogging
- Yammer? Nothing Else Was Better?
- Who Did You Learn From Today?
- YAGP: Social Median and Activity Streams
- Are You Reading My Reader Shares?
- Chrome is not a Browser, It Is the new Desktop
August 2008
- SEO Still Matters
- I Want To Change The Way I Work
- The RSS Feed Has Moved To a New Home
- FriendFeed Fixes I Do Not Want To Beg For
- Startups and the 4 Hour Work Week
- YAGP: Are Startups Cheaper?
- Lessons Forced on Me by Life and Early Adoption
- Snowballs in Summertime and the Grand Effect
- Web Application Integration With OAuth
- Size Does Not Matter, It is How You Use It
- Yet Another Guest Post: What News Are You Reading?
July 2008
- Passion, Early Adopters and the Mainstream
- Federated Microblogging at LouisGray.com
- Are 3D Worlds Useful Yet?
- The Google Digg Purchase Would Mean Nothing to You.
- Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me!
- Rankings Suck, So Now What?
- Do We Need Rankings For Everything?
- Guest Post on SheGeeks!
- iReasons I am Not Getting an iPhone
- On the Shoulders of Giants: FriendFeed Applications
- First Guest Post On Mashable!
- YackTrack Infrastructure Update and a Call For Comments
- Is Tweeterboard the first of many?
June 2008
- Conversations Are The Destination
- The Freelancing Equivalent of a Six Figure Salary
- Required Reading in Social Media
- Quick Guide To Social Media
- YackTrack Performance Issues
- The Importance of Openness
- Possible YackTrack Downtime
- YackTrack Gets a FeedFlare
- Who Owns Comments? Who Cares.
- 50 Posts and Administrivia
May 2008
- Feed Me YackTrack, Feed Me!
- Twitter at the Crossroads
- Are We Asking Too Much?
- Twitter Integration or Noise?
- Privacy and Data Ownership Do Not Apply
- Introducing YackTrack Chatter!
- Google Friend Connect Disconnect
- Why Twitter Will Go Mainstream
- FriendFeed: RSS Reader Deluxe
- Facebook and YahooBuzz: The Power Couple
April 2008
- Social News API Wars: Mixx vs. Digg
- YackTrack, Tracking Distributed Conversations
- I have arrived! Sort of.
- The Power of the A-List
- Twine + FriendFeed = Web 3.0
- Twitter and FriendFeed: Information Overload
- Comment Where You Want, Just Let Me Know About It
- Does Google App Engine Rev Your Engine?
- The Twitterization of Customer Service
- Reality Check for Social Media
March 2008
- What is needed for the semantic web to take off?
- Semantic Web Tools Lacking
- Should You Specialize in a Technology?
- Meebo, Bebo and AOL, Oh My!
- Alltop is the top: A News Aggregator Review
- Are You Lifestreaming Yet?
- Which Personalized Homepage Should You Use?
- Is Twitter killing blogs?
- Are APIs a good thing?
- Data portability may be boring, but boring is necessary
February 2008
- Personalization, Aggregation or Socialization – the pending content war
- Wisdom or Madness in the Crowd?
- Is the Semantic Web Dead On Arrival?
- 7 Resume Tips For a Software Developer
- 7 Sources Where Your Users Will Come From
- Is Bebo Worth $1 Billion? (and a Plaxo Correction)
- Rumors of Social Networking’s Death are Highly Exaggerated
- Plaxo price of $200 million is absurd!
- Why the Social Graph API is not ready for prime time