About Gary Burge
I am an experieced 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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Category Archives: New Technologies
Typekit Brings the Web a Step Closer to Real Publishing
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 [...]
Bing is the Natural Successor to Bob
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,” [...]
Google Wave Adds Communications and Collaboration to Google Product Mix
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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The Changing Landscape of Patents
The Atlantic website is presenting a fascinating interactive timeline of the rise and fall of US patent application per capita.
Covering the period 1975 to 2002, the Flash-based animation shows cities where the volume of patents moved up or down the engines of innovation - universities, industry, high tech companies - waxed and waned.
LayoffTracker Widget a Good, But Depressing Idea
Telonu.com, a company gossip site, has released a LayoffTracker Widget that lets you embed the latest job loss bad news on your blog, website or start page.
Available at the universal widget site, Widgetbox, this JavaScript widget shows in reverse chronological order the damage to US employment. The 20-employee cuts are featured with the 20,000-employee layoffs.
Telonu.com LayoffTracker Widget
Google Voice Going Public