Last month I did an interview for the Internet History Podcast, where I tell the story of my experiences as a co-founder of Excite.com, starting way back in 1993, ancient…
January 9, 2015
Search Results
April 24, 2007
Rot13(“Ryan”) = “Elna”
…plain text. Basically, you replace each letter in a string by its companion 13 places further along in the alphabet, wrapping to the beginning if necessary. The great thing about…
March 31, 2008
More from the Excite Archives
…for me after seeing my post of the old Excite TV commercials. Sun ran this ad promoting their server and our search engine after Excite’s multi-million dollar purchases of Sun…
July 15, 2008
Sharp’s Dull Service / My eCommerce Nightmare
Warning: long rant ahead, but I just concluded the worst and most protracted customer-service nightmare of my life and feel compelled to share it, since my experience was just preposterous….
July 16, 2008
I’ve Been Inc’d
…one of my posts was dugg, but apparently my post about the stupidity of car alarms amused the folks over at Inc. Magazine and Inc.com. Thanks for the props, Inc!…
August 18, 2008
Everything That Happens
…nearly 30 years later, Byrne and Eno have released a new album, Everything that Happens Will Happen Today , available exclusively from their website, http://everythingthathappens.com. The talented folks over Topspin…
November 14, 2008
Oblong: Rodent-Free Computing
…have launched their website. Go check out Oblong.com and get a feel for the mouse-free computing environment of the future: the g-speak spatial operating environment. Foundry Group, HCI, Oblong, VC…
April 13, 2009
After the Apocalypse…
A tip of the hat to my friend Dennise for sending this one to me, and another tip of the hat to the folks at Topatoco.com who created this fine…
June 12, 2009
Bing Juice?
…Ryan C. McIntyre is watching his web traffic, he’s probably seeing a sharp increase in the number visitors coming from Bing as well as a bump in traffic proportionate to…