Category Archives: AF-Design

Egg Mentioned in NY Times

The New York Times is running a fluff story about Honesty Box today (something I’ve done a little work on ). The short piece by Joanne Kaufman, touches briefly on some of the important questions surrounding anonymity online but doesn’t … Continue reading

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Rackspace – Ha!

Rackspace, the less than fantastic, albeit fanatical, web hosting provider is trying to buy support. They have had an incredibly bad last few months. Recently a major datacenter outage in November took many customers offline. Additionally, very public technology failures … Continue reading

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OpenSocial is Getting Better

Some folks will recall back in November I wrote how OpenSocial was irrelevant as a platform for social networking applications. I’ve been working with it for the last three days on MySpace and have to say, over the last few … Continue reading

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It’s called LAMP Stack for a Reason

FAMP != LAMP, Use Linux! Continue reading

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Web Hosting Support Nightmare

What exactly is wrong? Continue reading

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Yikes! A few days without an update!

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Did I Mention You Should Make a Backup?

It only took 6 short hours to re-install Windows Vista on my Mac. I recommend you backup any virtual disk images for Parallels you have now – because that took FOREVER! It was an oversight of mine from the hard … Continue reading

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Adonomics Now Values Honesty Box at Over $6M

For those of you who don’t know, for the last 6-7 months I’ve been working on a Facebook application called Honesty Box. Honesty Box lets users on Facebook send each other anonymous messages and replies knowing that there’s a level … Continue reading

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SimpleDB – Outsourced Database Software

TechCrunch broke this to me this evening. I am very excited about a pay per drink service for relational databases. Amazon has released a product called SimpleDB and it’s going to shake the small to mid-level web hosting realm to … Continue reading

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Free teleconference provider

 Yesterday I had the need to host a conference call. Being a one person shop, it’s cost prohibitive for me to pay money to have an on demand conference bridge (especially when most of my clients have their own.) Back … Continue reading

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