January 1, 2009
Take 90 seconds to listen to Emily.
I’ll talk more about Emily in Part 2, but I don’t want to give away her secret before you’ve seen the video.
I’ve written in the magazine recently about the “cloud computing” phenomenon. Here’s a nice blog post from ZDNet with a more detailed example of one company moving from co-located servers into Amazon’s cloud-based world: Migrating to Amazon Web Services
Over the holidays, I got addicted to Desktop Tower Defense (DTD) from Handdrawn Games. To quote the site,
Desktop TD is a fun flash based puzzle / strategy game where you have to protect your desktop from invaders by spending money on attacking pieces and building a maze for them to follow. A strangely addictive yet stress relieving game… how many levels can you survive?
All you need is a browser to play (the game is built using Java, which your browser may need to download to run the game).
Surgeon General’s Warning: This game can easily consume hours of your time. Looking at the high score listings, either there is a secret to playing, or some people have way too much time on their hands.
December 22, 2008
It’s been more than 10 years since the first blog was created, and ever-mindful of new and important trends, Northbay biz has joined the fray. Publisher Norm Rosinski and myself are the guinea pigs in this experiment, and we hope to increase the interaction between ourselves and our readers.
I’ve been blogging since 2005 on winery Web site effectiveness at The Winery Web Site Report and on my personal blog, Smarter Stuff, so this is really an opportunity to post about items related to business and technology, which is the subject of my monthly column for the print magazine, Tech Talk.
Please feel free to add a comment with suggestions or questions. And, of course, I’d appreciate it if you would subscribe to our RSS feed (over there in the right column under “Meta”), so you’ll be notified of each new post here at the Northbay biz blog. If you don’t know how to subscribe to RSS feeds, take a look at RSS in Plain English, a short video from the nice folks over at CommonCraft.
(Unfortunately, the column I wrote on this topic back in early 2006 — Getting Started with Blogs, Part I — is no longer available on our Web site. Damn.)
