Monthly Archives: May 2009

Typekit Brings the Web a Step Closer to Real Publishing

By Gary Burge | Published: May 29, 2009
A Small Batch, Inc. has announced a new web service that resolves copyright restrictions on downloadable fonts and will deliver font packages directly to your web page the same way YouTube hosts videos and provides them to your web page on demand. Typekit, the name of the new product, will solve a frustrating limitation inherent [...]
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Hurricane Season (Already!)

By Gary Burge | Published: May 28, 2009
It has started! For anyone like me who lives in Florida, “it” at this time of year can only mean the much dreaded Hurricane Season. It’s supposed to “officially” start June 1, but this year the weather gods are jumping the mark with a new tropical depression, which only has a number (One) for now, [...]
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Bing is the Natural Successor to Bob

By Gary Burge | Published: May 28, 2009
Microsoft today announced its new search platform, called “Bing“. It was greeted by a mock (or perhaps not?) protest by long-time Fortune magazine columnist Stanley Bing, who in a press release “expressed ‘moderate outrage’” at what he termed “brand encroachment” by Microsoft. “For nearly 25 years, I have jealously guarded the value of my brand,” [...]
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Google Wave Adds Communications and Collaboration to Google Product Mix

By Gary Burge | Published: May 28, 2009
Today at Google I/O, Google announced Google Wave, a new web product the search giant is calling “a new platform built around hosted conversations called waves.” Information is still coming out of the presentation, but it appears that Google Wave: has a Gmail like browser interface and involves both Gmail contacts and Wave contacts has [...]
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Wow! Quite Creative Stop Animation

By Gary Burge | Published: May 27, 2009
Tomas Mankovsky, a name you’ll likely hear again, created this awesome stop animation video, “Sorry I’m Late“, entirely from snapshots from a still camera. Sorry I’m Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo. Tomas shares his experiments and setups and some “making of” videos at sorry-im-late.com. He used a storyboard to sketch out the flow of [...]
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links for 2009-05-18

By Gary Burge | Published: May 18, 2009
Us Now By Banyak Films. A hour-long documentary on social networking in online communities. (tags: UsNow BanyakFilms socialnetworking communities) The Truth about BDD I really like the concept of BDD (Behavior Driven Development). I think Dan North is brilliant, and had done us all a great service by presenting the concept. (tags: BDD Rails Ruby [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am a graying web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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