Gordon's Notes

These are the last days of app.net. It ends in 3 days. App.net has been good to me . Great tools, smart and interesting people, RSS integrat...

I still want a graph layer atop my notes . Yes, I want my personal locally stored data unlocked  memex . Since the passing fad of the web ...

Being new-old means learning to be deliberative about things that were once opportunistic. I used to get my exercise whenever I could — now...

Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...

I've hit the Wall. It's partly entropy-related wetware failure, but I'd be in trouble even if I were immortal. I have two man...

Five years ago I tried to figure out why we couldn't share work across our corporate units . This turned out to be one of those rabbit ...

I've changed my mind about  Project Glass . I thought it was proof that Brin's vast wealth had driven him mad, and that Google was d...

Emily and I were wondering what business purpose coupons serve. They make brand price comparison labor intensive and hence unaffordable for ...

Once every few days to weeks I write a short essay, from a few paragraphs to a few "pages" (remember the page?).  Every few minute...

Just three years ago Facebook's Gordon's Evil Score was 12, and Google was a mere 6. Today, 3 months after Google's day of infa...

Google hired a hit man , and was shocked to find bodies. Now the remnants of Google 1.0 are punishing Google 2.0 , though Matt Cutts hasn&#...

One of the reasons I blog is to engage with a fascinating world, and to track the streams of history. I'm finding that harder to do....

I shared thousands of articles through Google Reader. They were a part of my extended memory . I often searched that repository. This even...

Let's get the good news out of the way. Google has stepped back from their Buzz/G+  nymwar policy. Google will support pseudonyms . So...

I get emails when a reader (infrequently) comments. The author deleted this comment, so I'll keep it anonymous ... Say, is it not odd ...

My memory prostheses  got a nice upgrade when I integrated my Outlook and Palm/Toodledo "notes" into a single Cloud based reposit...

This is for men aged 38 to 45. Everyone else, turn the page. When I turned 5 nanosols (50 solar years), I did a status and lessons learned r...

Ten years ago there was talk of the boomers working into their seventies. The "me generation" was said to be "young at heart&...

The were rumbles about Latitude, but the battle of Google Voice made the Google-Apple war public. Now it's a cliche ... How Apple and G...

Buzz has been a great disappointment . It's not all bad though. Google built a lot of Buzz on the Google Reader Shared Item experiments,...