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Happy (Belated) 5th Birthday to Loosely Coupled

I started blogging on January 29th, 2003 . We've been a little heads down trying to get Notches to launch and I completely forgot to write about this, but I've now been blogging for over five years. I talked last year about my motivations for blogging, and they definitely continue to hold true...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-23-2008
What exactly is "User Generated Content"?

There's an interesting discussion going on over at CenterNetworks , with Allen calling out Mike Arrington and co. for giving Digg the award for "best user-generated content". Allen says that Digg doesn't belong in that category (which he includes Wikipedia, your blog, and Flickr), but...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2008
Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership

I've sort of ignored the whole Scoble/Facebook fiasco, with people arguing on both sides who "owns" the data. Jimmy Gutterman misses the point a bit , because Facebook has already opened up the social graph through the Facebook Platform API. What they don't expose - and why this script...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2008
Creating a better 404

Jeff Atwood rants about the typical 404 page , saying "the average internet user has no idea what 404 means or what to do about it. To them, it's yet another unintelligible error message from the computer. Most 404 pages are unvarnished geek-speak." Jeff lays out 5 ways to make the 404...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-31-2007
Security implications of MyBlogLog vs. BlogRovr

According to a TechCrunch story , Citibank is putting a warning message up for users of comment and blog tracking services. As it turns out, there is a known issue with the coComment plug-in and, though I'm not familiar with the service, it sounds like BlogRovr also has a browser extension. Since...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
The Intense Debate Experiment

As some of you may have noticed, I've been trying out Intense Debate on this blog. Though the Intense Debate homepage advertises that you can import your existing comments, I haven't found a way to do so. As of now, this means I need to show all of my existing comments. In fact, right now I'm...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2007
Radio Silence

I'd like to apologize to all for the complete silence here over the past month or so. As some of you may know, I recently got married. Things were predictably busy leading up to the wedding and then we went on a wonderful honeymoon for 2 weeks in Italy (Capri and Positano). For those of you interested...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-08-2007
The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online

An interesting article in Business Week about opening up the Wall Street Journal Online in the wake of the sale to Murdoch. For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost. The daily financial newspaper is one of the few major publications to successfully charge for access to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-25-2007
Distinguishing between a platform and a destination

Charlie says that "the whole idea that you have a main site is dead". I couldn't agree more - I strongly believe that platforms are the future of the Internet. One clarification I'd like to make in this whole discussion is Facebook is both a destination and a platform. It's important...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-21-2007
Professional bloggers get journalist rights

On August 1st, a congressional panel voted to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources, and explicitly included "professional bloggers" in the category ( via Lena ). This is definitely a step in the right direction. Ultimately, I believe it should be a functional...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-17-2007

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