Jim Lipsey

Meet Moo, the newest online darling in the Web 2.0 age. Moo has all the fundamentals: a nice AJAXy interface, Web2.0 colors, gradient fills, rounded corners galore, and lots and lots of buzz. They even sell a physical product, which is downright revolutionary. Perhaps they’re Web 2.1?
So I spent a couple hours choosing, [...]

GMail does a pretty good job identifying spam. The offending messages are slotted into a ‘Spam’ folder, where they sit for 30 days before being deleted automatically.
If you’re a compulsive person (like me), this produces an obsessive need to check the spam box four or five times a day to look for false positives [...]

I’ve been using Backpack for a few months now. It’s a web application that’s hard to describe, yet has become indespensible. Basically, the service provides a very simple interface to maintain a set of pages, each of which can store notes, images, files and links. Along with these pages is a ‘reminder’ [...]