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Pi Day (Wikispaces for Teachers)

Posted on May 24, 2010

Early this morning we gave away our 314159th free Plus wiki for education at Wikispaces. Unfortunately I missed it, so my screenshot estimates pi at a value that would make even Archimedes sad. As we mentioned back when the counter … Continue reading →

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Wikispaces Birthday

Posted on March 31, 2008

Wikispaces is three this month, and we’ve shared some statistics about growth and traffic over on our blog: http://blog.wikispaces.com/2008/03/wikispaces-turns-three.html The short version: 920K users, 390K wikis. 26M pageviews last month, 200M last year. Woo! It’s exciting times at our little … Continue reading →

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Super Tuesday Visualization

Posted on February 5, 2008

There are lots of ways to see the outcome of today’s primaries, but I think the New York Times has done the best – far more compact and easier to read than CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post. No Flash, no … Continue reading →

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Back from Africa

Posted on September 23, 2007

Last week, Amanda and I got back from an amazing trip to Southern Africa. We spent two weeks camping out in Bostwana, a few nights in the Luangwa River valley, stopped in Johannesburg, Victoria Falls, and Lusaka, and spent days … Continue reading →

Posted in Photos, Vacation

Wikispaces is Hiring

Posted on August 9, 2007

As regular readers of this irregularly-updated blog will note, I’ve been hard at work the last two and a half years on Wikispaces alongside Adam and Dom. We set out to start a company that builds useful products for real … Continue reading →

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PHP Feed Parsing: Hello, SimplePie

Posted on July 26, 2007

For years, I’ve been using Magpie for parsing RSS and Atom feeds in various PHP projects. As of today, no more – it’s SimplePie from here on out. Magpie’s done well thus far, but it’s slipped into disrepair and lacks … Continue reading →

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Wikispaces + SourceForge

Posted on June 7, 2007

Yesterday, our team over at Wikispaces was thrilled to announce that every SourceForge.net project now comes with a Wikispaces wiki. We think every open source project can benefit from having a shared space to collaborate on documents – what better … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Advantage

Posted on November 9, 2006

I bought and next-day shipped my new MacBook Pro from Amazon on October 19. On October 24, Apple announced a new line with Core 2 Duos and other upgrades. This afternoon, by sheer chance, I noticed that Amazon had dropped … Continue reading →

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In the Water – Week One

Posted on October 30, 2006

(Why am I in the water? See Jumping Ship.) After week one, I’m still thrilled with the new MacBook Pro. Careful chronologers will note that just four days after UPS dropped off my laptop, Apple released its upgraded MacBook Pro … Continue reading →

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Jumping Ship

Posted on October 21, 2006

On Friday, I said goodbye to my five-year-old IBM ThinkPad A22P and hello to a new MacBook Pro. Yes, five years. I’ve been putting this off for a while. Now, the ThinkPad was a good laptop – great, maybe – … Continue reading →

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