James Reyes on technology, language and the human experience.

20 Apr 2007
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Wales: MySpace will fail

Wikepedia founder Jimmy Wales predicts that MySpace will fail since it doesn’t properly draw users into a community as perfectly as Wikipedia does. Wales said MySpace, “hurts my eyes.” From an interface perspective MySpace has a number of problems. The … Continue reading

26 Mar 2007
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Beryl Project

The Beryl Project is a free open source desktop user interface and is pretty neat. The desktop object orientation is 3-dimensional and is way ahead of Mac OSX and Windows Vista. Many of the features seem like overkill, but I … Continue reading

19 Mar 2007
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Social media optimization

2007’s emerging Internet marketing trend is Social Media Optimization (SMO). SMO is a method of driving traffic through social media sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook and MySpace. For years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was key to driving traffic, but as … Continue reading

14 Feb 2007
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Obama is running

Senator Barack Obama announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. I’m giving my support and money to Senator Obama. His pragmatism and delivery of a message of optimism is just what this country needs. … Continue reading