2009 was an awesome year. A lot of amazing things happened in the world of hosting (and a lot happened in the world of Harper too). Being a crazy hosting aficionado, I will summarize my thoughts on hosting in 2009 (I will leave the predictions for 2010).
Disclaimer: I am paid money by Rackspace to think [...]

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Man. This really gets my goat.
I have always had an interest in accessibility of technology by people who are differently abled, but i usually concentrated on seniors and children. It never occurred to me the challenges that a deaf person would have interacting with mobile phones and all that (I mean – i was aware [...]

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Since Google just changed the game of mobile software – I got to thinking about my new fascination – Contact management. So the first place I go to is Gmail and Google’s new contact manager. Being an iSync freakout, I love syncing my contacts. I LOVE being able to bring in contacts from all my [...]

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I love jabber. I love Google talk because it is jabber. I really like what jabber supports and how it works. And the Google talk desktop app is pretty smooth.
A couple weeks ago Google released Google talk gadget that allowed group chatting. This was super weird since the flash based gadget has totally blown [...]

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Today I got access to the Google Mashup Editor. it is really nifty. I like it. The samples are amazing. I can’t wait to sit down and play with it comprehensively. its really neat that the data is accessible with the gdata api.
I think that combining this and yahoo pipes could lead to interesting results. [...]

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Usually when I blog about Google, I am happy. but today it is a sad sad Google day. For the first time since the days of metacrawler, a search for Harper Reed doesn’t return one of my sites as the first hit. This really hurts. I guess I have been slacker at my SEO. Gotta [...]

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So earlier today Jacob sent me a list of the top 10 Internet sites according to Alexa. here is the list:
Top Sites

Yahoo!
Microsoft Network
Google
YouTube
Myspace
Baidu.com
Windows Live
Orkut.com
???
Yahoo!????

As you can see there are quite a few Google, yahoo and Microsoft controlled sites – with Myspace and qq being the only non federated sites in the top 10. This is [...]

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So my name is harper. It isn’t a very common name, so I have always had luck with being pretty high ranked in the results  when a person searches for my full name “harper reed,” but when you search for my first name I am often beat out by such “cultural giants” as ben harper, harpers [...]

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So for the last couple months skinnyCorp has been working on moving hosts. It has been pretty fun and interesting and there are a few things that we have been hesitating moving because it is such a pain in the ass. One of those things is email.
Man, I hate email. I mean – I [...]

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For some reason my google talk is broken for my person gmail account. It doesn’t log me in while i am in gmail, or gaim, or even using their gtalk client. Its really weird – because if i log in using another account – it works fine. But if i log in using my primary [...]

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