Justin Laing

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Entries from January 2006

Web 2.0 is not all hype

January 26th, 2006 · No Comments

In response to Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web 3.0 arcticle, talked about on ajaxian:
It’s not as easy as Jeffrey makes it out to be to design and run an application that is used by masses of people. If it were then Yahoo, Google, eBay etc would not be paying millions to buy these products and user [...]

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Tags: ajax · business

Poor dog…

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Chicken: “Time for a bath?”

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Tags: chai · pictures

Wizlite - group highlighting and annotation of websites

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

From Ajaxian:
Announcing Wizlite by Alex Kirk (BandNews and Blummy creator). Wizlite is a fantastic use of Ajax for highlighting and annotating any web page. Using either a bookmarklet or a Firefox extension, you’ll see highlights and annotations from other people, each with their own colour.
The FAQ explains how publishers can make their pages “Wizlite-able” with [...]

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Tags: ajax · web find

Rent-A-Coder?

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

I recently put up a project for bid on Rent A Coder.  This looks like a great way to get side projects done.  For not much you can try out an idea, get some help, or fix a bug. Within 2 days I’ve gotten about 20 bids about 10 of which were from what looked [...]

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Tags: business · programming

Favorite Podcasts

January 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Here’s a list of my top podcasts:

Venture Voice is a great podcast for anyone interested in entrepreneurism or business. It has an emphasis on internet and technology businesses, but I believe the discussions with the guests have broad appeal. I especially enjoyed the interview with Derek Sivers of CD Baby.
InfoTalk Podcast hosted by [...]

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Tags: favorites · podcasts

I should really start a blog

January 13th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Here’s what I’m going to write post entries on:

Stuff I find interesting on the web (programming, business, news, fun stuff).
Ideas I have about businesses, programming, life etc.
Any other ideas?

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Tags: blog