Author: DXO

  • Toward a Rethinking of Tornado Warnings

    The deadly tornado in Indiana and Kentucky is another opportunity for us to consider new, innovative ways for one-to-many and many-to-many communications system in a world of Open Source Emergency Response. In this NYT article, Tornado Survivors Question Siren Warning System, people question the utility of TV warnings and land-based sirens for emergencies in the…

  • GMail as Online File Storage

    I was lucky enough to get a GMail account about 3 days after their beta launched because I met some arcane formula on my Blogger usage. I liked GMail from the start, and invited lots of people, and evangelized all over for the Google love. Then time passed, Yahoo! increased their storage space, and my…

  • Mass Affluent

    There’s something about rhyming that people love.

  • Testing out Y!Q

    What if there was a concrete incentive to play with some of the stuff we’ve been building? Like maybe a cold, hard $5,000. That’d buy you a nice new

  • Just Curious on the Trademark-Protection Front

    Um, so I was wondering why Google thinks it’s really cool that someone: Named their baby "Google" Created a website with the word "Google" in the domain name Created a logo that looks like the Google logo for their website that has the word Google in the domain name Serves Google Ads to generate revenue…