Nick O'Neill

My ramblings on entrepreneurship and online publishing.
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It's JSON Son!

There has been a fair amount of hype/discussion recently over the fairly new JSON format. JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format based on a subset of the JavaScript programming language. Since many people that read my blog do not program for a living, I will try to spare the details (let alone the fact that [...]

MyBloglog Bought Out Finally

Months after the rumors started, an article popped up in Forbes announcing that MyBlogLog has been acquired by Yahoo for a rumored $10 million. I know that there has been a bazillion blogs to comment on this already so I’ll be brief. I think that MyBlogLog has some great opportunity, specifically in the world of [...]

Apple Announces Iphone

If you are reading Live from Macworld 2007 on Engadget, you would have seen that Apple has officially announced their Iphone (on the left you can see a picture of Steve Jobs showing off the features). The phone has a 2 megapixel camera, built in ipod connector, 8 GB of storage, and more. It is [...]

Open Source For Second Life, Smart Decision?

While I hate beating to death the Second Life story, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to comment on Second Life’s decision to go open source. First off let me say that I always thought Second Life was a great idea and still do. I already considered it sort of a virtual manifestation of open-source [...]

Another Rule?

Seeing as today was a fairly uneventful day in the blogosphere I decided that I would share another lesson with you that I have learned (which has manifested itself into rule number three). I think it would be best to preface the third rule with an explanation of what all these rules are about. As [...]

Another Lesson Learned

This week has been an exhausting week for me as I have added two new clients to my company’s portfolio. I had to move over both client’s websites and emails to a new server. In the process one of the client’s email service was unexpectedly interrupted. Initially I had planned for a perfectly seamless process [...]

RevolutionHealth: Not So Revolutionary

At least that’s what I thought when I first saw the site. I signed up for the preview version of RevolutionHealth yesterday. When I first logged in, I thought that this was just another AJAX heavy, web 2.0 application. I poked around for a little, including checking out an area where you can view information [...]

Five Things I'd Like to See on Google

Google is the king of web based productivity applications. While that may be true, over the past week I have noticed a few usability issues that have arisen while using various Google utilities. Below are a few things that I think would improve my experience: 1) Google reader to go above 100+ – If you [...]

Listpic: Craigslist in Images

Listpic.com is a new site that allows you to browse craigslist through image thumbnails. I have no idea why this site didn’t come out sooner. It is such a great idea. The thumbnail for this post illustrates a portion of results when browsing through bikes for sale in Washington, DC. I actually made an Java [...]

5 Things You Didn't Know About Me

I never participate in memes and you probably won’t see me participate in another one anytime soon, but I got tagged by Crystal Coast Tech so I figured why not? I’m sure my close friends and family know these things about me. Either way I’ll be brief. I have been an owner and executive in [...]