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MTA's new Trip Planner

MTA recently launched a new service called Trip Planner . I've used it a few times since I'm still learning some of the buses and trains around our new offices, and it seems to work pretty well. What I like about it more than HopStop is that it gives you multiple routes and is actually...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-20-2008
Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas

Evan Williams has an absolutely wonderful post up about evaluating a new product idea . I think Marc is spot on - the "personally compelling" criteria is the one that stands out. Last on the list, but probably the first question I ask myself is: How important to me is it that this product exists...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-26-2007
Rest In Peace, Marc Orchant

I just learned that Marc Orchant passed away over the weekend as a result of the massive coronary he suffered last week. River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home It’s a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I’ve come since I first...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-10-2007
Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team

My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2007
Marc Orchant suffers massive coronary (updated)

Oh my. I just learned that Marc Orchant suffered a massive coronary over the weekend and is in critical condition in an Albuquerque hospital. I got a chance to meet and chat with Marc back when he was writing for the Weblogs, Inc. blogs about tablets and productivity and he's just a wonderful guy...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-03-2007
Why I chose the Dash

My aging Blackberry 8700 was just getting too much for my pockets, and I needed to upgrade. I was debating between the Dash and the Pearl and decided on the Dash. Why? For starters, T-Mobile released the Windows Mobile 6 update , which adds (among many other things), HTML e-mail support. This is really...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-24-2007
Loosely Coupled's Fourth Anniversary

I started this blog four years ago . I often find it difficult to explain why I started writing here in the first place and why I continue to write given my hectic schedule. I think John sums up my personal experience with blogging perfectly . ( via Dennis ). My personal arc (over 5 years of blogging...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-29-2007
I don't want an iPhone

No, I'm not entirely crazy. There's no denying that this is a sweet device. The people and markets have spoken and most seem to be in love - or at least in lust - with it. As a device, I think that it's a game changer - but there there are some practical issues I need to get past before I can bring myself...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-10-2007
Blog for the readers, not the traffic

I recently celebrated my third year writing this blog , which I thought was a pretty big milestone. One thing I didn't really address in that post is why I have continued to write here. I couldn't agree more with Scoble's comment about weblog traffic . I’ve been getting asked “how do you get traffic...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-21-2006
Things come to a close...

A lot of things came to a close over the last week or so. We delivered the first production version of my project on Friday, and I had to complete my employee reviews (we have a rather comprehensive reviews program where I have to review everyone I work with). I'm also done with my summer semester as...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-29-2004

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