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Josh CatoneJosh works as a product evangelist for a small startup based in Rhode Island, USA. He is also the co-founder of the web's largest community dedicated to Ruby on Rails development, Rails Forum.

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SXSWi: The Great Spec Work Debate
280 North Announces Atlas: Web App Design Changed Forever?
MicroPlaza Solves Twitter Link Sharing
Mozilla Launches Very Slick Cloud-Based IDE
Advice: Offer Support Everywhere
Sign of the Times: TV Now Has Web Ratings
Blogging Can Make You Money, Even if Your Blog Doesn't
Yahoo! BOSS: Now Actually Good for Google
Passwords: Most People Do It Wrong
Why Hulu Has the Advantage
Chrome Extensions Likely by May
App Engine to Add Offline Processing, XMPP
Firefox Exec: Bundling? No Thanks
Opera Fights Back: Announces Next Gen JavaScript Engine
Data Breaches On the Rise: Bad News for SaaS
Amazon's Fine Line: Infrastructure Provider vs. Competitor
Mozilla Phone: Help Design Your Dream Phone
Lesson: Don't Bury Important Stuff in Your TOS
Facebook and Basecamp Turn 5: Which Means More to You?
Google Change Breaks Third-Party Analytics Tools
Why a Bad Economy Will Help Social Networks
Twitter Joins Digg and Slashdot in Sending Server Crashing Traffic
The Top 5 Places to Share Code Quickly
Will IE8 Be Enough to Save Internet Explorer?
Cut Costs by Saving Ink with Ecofont
Open Thread: How to Prevent Data Loss
Bridging the Digital Divide Takes More than Just Access
Adobe is Walking On AIR: 100 Million AIR Installs
The Branch: Twitter Ad Network That's Not on Twitter
Google Launches Tools to Test for Bandwidth Throttling
The Secrets to Success According to Netflix CEO
Book About Wikipedia Lands on Wikipedia
Muxtape Returns with Indie Flair
Layer Tennis Returns for Second Season
Maybe Britannica is on to Something
Monty Python Makes Money with Free Videos
PHP Framework Plans Socially Responsible Coding Contest
comScore: Web Audience Now Tops 1 Billion
Advice: Just Finish It!
Britannica Plans to Take On Wikipedia with Community Edits
Could Twitter Ever Replace Digg?
Firefox Plans Built-In Usability Platform
Is Ruby's Popularity Fading?
Microsoft Should Buy Palm, Not Yahoo!
Backing Up Your Online Life
Barack Obama's Web Wasteland
Google Testing "Preferred Sites" Personalization
Foodzie is Etsy for Food
TweetNews Mashes Up Twitter with Yahoo! News
Yahoo! Gives Wikipedia an 8th Birthday Present
Joyent Acquires Reasonably Smart to Take On Google App Engine
FeedScrub Launches New RSS Filter - 500 Invites
Totlol Offers Parental Moderation for YouTube
5 Awesome Snail Mail-Powered Art Projects
Dr. Horrible: The Future of Television
Flickr Stock - The Way Stock Photos Should Have Been
Report: SaaS to Take Off This Year
Firefox Drops Google in Russia
Surprisingly, Younger Users Care More About Privacy
The Future of Music: Don't Forget About NIN
How to Find Breaking News on Twitter
Kuler Adds Cool Data Visualization
New York Times Releases Another API
The Internet is Taking the Shine off of Apple
The Future of the Music Business: Soulja Boy?
Why Facebook Will Have a Big 2009
Are All Web App Platforms Doomed by Fatigue?
Apple's iWork.com Disappoints - Not a Google Docs Competitor
VixML: A Platform for the iPhone Platform
IE's Decline Makes 'Cross Browser' More Relevant
Poll: What Makes a Computer a Computer?
Web Applications Reset the Playing Field
It Was a Good Idea for the AFP to Turn Off RSS
OpenID Needs to Start Getting Real
What's On Tap: Predictions for 2009
The Top 15 Web Tech Stories of 2008
Top Ruby Frameworks Rails and Merb Join Forces
2008 Predictions: Year End Review
Mozilla's Relationship with Google "Complicated"
Opera 10's Y2K Bug: Browser Detection Goes Bad
Building on a Closed Platform? Tread Carefully
12 Ways to Keep Sane While Working from Home
Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux Ships
4 Unique Apps for Tracking Time
The 10 Most Creative Uses for Twitter
Are Social Networks Your Home on the Web?
Google Hints at App Engine Pricing
The Day Web 2.0 Died
Poll: Who Do You Trust More, Google or Facebook?
Yahoo! Pushes Out Even More Social
Google Turns its Back on Firefox
15 Must Bookmark Sites for Design Inspiration
Oh Brother, ;-) Emoticon Trademarked
Corporate Blogging: You're Doing It Wrong
Nintendo Planning to Enter eBook Fray
Google Chrome Leaves Beta
Uh oh, Facebook is About to Become the Internet
Did Google Just Patent Gears? Why?
10 Ways to Spy on Your Competitors
Google Working on Answer to Flash, Silverlight, Java
Is Online Censorship On the Rise?
Userfly: Usability From Your Actual Users
Maybe Don't Count Yahoo! Out Just Yet
Most People Still Won't Pay for Ad-free Content, Would You?
Two More Ways to Do Cross Browser Testing
The Argument Against Software as a Service
Can Closed Work for Apple This Time?
Amazon Adds New Service: Public Data Sets
Opera 10 Alpha Arrives
Codebase Launches Git-based Project Management Service
Adobe Meermeer Will Change the Way You Test Web Sites
Use Firefox, Save the Planet
37signals Announces New Business Book
Once Extensions Arrive on Chrome, Firefox Should Worry
Can Microsoft Save Blockbuster? No, Probably Not
Poll: Flash or Silverlight?
Bad News for Microsoft: Windows, IE Net Usage Dip Lower
Google's Operating System Arrives - But Not From Google
Famous Rails Screencast Gets an Update
10,000 iPhone Apps - How Many Are Good?
Australia's Net Censorship Sparks Outrage
15 Awesome Gifts for the Geek in Your Life
Yahoo! Wants to Power Your Site Search
8 Sites for Watching English Evolve
Google Makes Street View More Prominent in Maps
Google Chrome Stats, Three Months Out
10 Essential Tips For Landing Your Next Job
TV, Web, Mobile on the Rise - What's Taking a Hit?
Keyboardr: An App Launcher for the Web
5 Ways to Get Usability Testing on the Cheap
Terrible Idea: Magpie Twitter Ad Network
Illustrations: What HTTP Errors Look Like
Jeff Bezos Gives Advice on Long Term Success
Poll: Is RSS Mainstream?
Google To Launch Customizable Search Tonight
10 Must Have Tools for Communicating with Clients
HelpingKind.org: A Pay It Forward Marketplace
If Twitter Charges, Users Would Pay: Survey
NASA Tests First 'Deep Space Internet'
Yahoo! Launches BrowserPlus, Plans to Open Source It
The Downside of Free
Central Desktop Launches Enterprise Version
New Verticals for Techmeme: Business, the Environment, Cars, and Football?
Microsoft: 100 Million Silverlight Downloads in 4 Weeks
Adobe Announces CoCoMo Platform as a Service
Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference
Google Docs Use: Just a Blip
Watch Out Avril, Here Comes Obama
Me.dium Relaunches as Social Search Engine OneRiot
YouTube PPC Ads Are Smart Move, Not Desperate One
Is Google's Ad Biz Beginning to Unravel?
Poll: Should You Retire the Word "Freelancer?"
Big Victory in Fight Against Spam: Major Spam Host Axed
Zoho Launches Status: App Transparency Done Right
Google Ad Planner Opens for Everyone
12 Killer Ways to Make Extra Income On the Web
Instant Language Translation Comes to Firefox
Spam ROI: Profit on 1 in 12.5m Response Rate
Google Drops StarOffice from Pack; Firefox Next?
Photoshop Gets Real: Best Ad Ever
Smart Move: Get Satisfaction Adds Ads
Amazon Announces $100,000 Startup Challenge Finalists
Threadless Goes to School: College Curates Shirt Collection
Perspctv Relaunches Comparison Dashboard
US Election Breaks Records for News Consumption
Google Launches Forum Search
Microsoft Makes Pitch to Startups with Free Tools
Get Up to Speed with National Blog Posting Month
Firefox Hits 20% Browser Market Share Worldwide
Lesson: Privacy Matters
Tracking the US Election with Web 2.0
7 Places to Find the Code You Need
Online Ad Prices Set to Tumble?
When Search Engines Become Publishers
Outlook Good for Freelance Writers: Report
Do You Own Your Social Media Identity?
Google Removes OpenID Whitelist Requirement
Google Reassures AdSense Publishers via Email
How To Crowdsource Your Research & Development
Poll: How Do You Use LinkedIn?
The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID
Microsoft Plans to (Finally) Launch Web Office Suite
AdaptiveBlue Announces Glue: The Ultimate Vertical Social Network
AideRSS Relaunches Under PostRank Brand
SlideRocket Launches with Pricing, Marketplace
Microsoft Jumps on OpenID Bandwagon
Aviary SaaS Image Editing Software Leaves Beta
Microsoft Answers Amazon with Windows Azure
Yahoo! Actually Leads in Paid Search
Google Reveals App Engine Product Map
Slimy User Acquisition: Oregon Trail Becomes Dating Service
Rails Rumble: 245,000 Lines of Code in 48 Hours
10 Inspirational "How I Did It" Stories
Rackspace Ups the Ante in Assault on Amazon
Pixish To Close Down This Month
The Real Threat to Microsoft Office: Maybe Not Web Apps
Study: Email Beats the Pants Off of Social Networks for Marketing
Blogging Isn't Dead, But Linking May Be Broken
The Facebook Platform is Dead - Good, Let the Innovation Begin!
Twitter as a Tool for Social Change
Poll: What Do You Think of Apple's New Attack Ads?
BlogTalkRadio: Internet Saved the Radio Star
Microsoft Launches Open Source Web App Installer
Opera: Just 4.13% of Web's Code is Valid
Omnidrive Investors, Customers Officially Forgotten?
Google Goes to Hollywood - Produces More In-House Video Content
Silverlight 2.0 Expands .NET Support, Adds Controls
EffectiveUI and Intelligence Gaming Launch Flash-based Immersive Video Tech
Adobe Releases Flash 10 Player
Yahoo!: Mainstream Has No Idea what OpenID Is
Save Money, Fire Your PR Agency
Easily Create Printable Pages with PrintWhatYouLike.com
YouTube Expands Beyond 10 Minutes - Adds Full Length Content
SourceForge Adds Hosted Applications
Study: Want to Know Your Full Online Rights? Set Aside 8 Days
Microsoft Research Opens Social Search Engine
20 Places to Find Your Next Web Development Job
Googleplex Calendar Apparently Turned to April
Open Source Funding Site microPledge Calls for Help
Zuora Automates Subscription Billing and Payments
Citizen Journalism Needs a Filter
YouTube Adds eCommerce - Video Advertising's Future?
Facebook Finally Launches Web Search
Major US University Trials Electronic Textbooks
LiveJournal: A Cautionary Tale
Hakia Pushes Credibility Filtering - Still Flawed
The iPod, Not the Kindle, May Be the "iPod of eBooks"
12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Twitter
When Citizen Journalism Attacks: CNN Gaffe Causes Stock Drop
Poll: Can eBay Right the Ship?
Evri Attempts to Expose Content Connections
Google, Microsoft, Apple Dominate the Conversation
Google Blog Search - The Memetracker for the Mainstream?
Oops, There Goes Another Web Site: The Web Is Disappearing
What Was Search Like in 2001? Google Knows
Flash Coming to iPhone, Maybe... If Apple Says Okay
Clearspring Acquires AddThis to Bolster Reach
GNU Founder: Cloud Computing is "Worse than Stupidity"
MP3Count is AllofMP3 All Over Again
Will Links Save the Newspaper Industry?
HelpWith: Social Search Without the Effort
Adobe CTO Talks Tough on Google, Microsoft
Twitter Launches Election Mashup, Could Be So Much More
Facebook's Future is as a Search Engine
Microsoft Talks Up Client + Cloud Future
Google Celebrates 10th Birthday, Gives Away Money
Gina Bianchini: The Web Is Still Walled
ISP: We Can't Stop Illegal File Sharing
Calais Semantic Web Service Adds Professional Version
Reuse Content and Make Money Twice
TV's Future is On Demand
Facebook About to Make Lexicon Way More Useful
5 Ways to Keep Tabs on Wikipedia
Two Apps that Lower the iPhone Development Barrier
Arianna Huffington: The Secret to Success is Passion
What Makes the Cloud the Cloud
Embargoes Work -- Except When They're Broken
More than 100,000 Blogging on iPhone
5 Countries Stand Between Google and World Domination
Gary Vaynerchuk: Be Happy. Build Your Brand.
Microsoft Live Search Begins Powerset Integration
Is Google Getting into Gaming?
JumpBox Launches Virtual Appliances as a Service
Zend Teams With Adobe to Marry PHP and Flex
YouTube: Online Video Will Be as Easy as A Phone Call
Tim Berners-Lee Announces World Wide Web Foundation
Yahoo! Taps Its Inner Gypsy
Game Over. Twitter Wins.
Open Yahoo! Will Play Nice with Google, Not Compete
Open Source: The Textbooks of the Future
AdSense Integration with Analytics Coming Soon
Plan B for Funding: Do It Yourself
The Future of Search According to Google
Cymbolism: The Color of Language
Adobe Announces Flash Media Encoding Server
Facebook Releases Profile Preview Mode
Adobe: 25 Million AIR App Installs, Actual Number Likely Higher
Microsoft Announces H.264 Support for Silverlight
Report: AOL to Revamp Homepage
Are DEMO and TC50 Really Worth it for Startups?
uTag: Make Money from Shortened URLs
Early Stats: Google Chrome Hurts Firefox, not IE
Report: 79% of Video Streams Not Monetized In-Video
Joost Giving Up on the Desktop
Trying to Decipher that EULA? Better Have a PhD
MySpace Dev Platform Catching Up to Facebook
Just How Powerful Is Wikipedia?
5 Ways to Fund Your Web Startup
Social Networking: Not Quite Mainstream
The Web's Top 10 Sites, 10 Years Later ...
15 Places to Sell Your Photos
IMDB Gets Musical with SoundUnwound
Google Working on Browser: What About Mozilla?
Microsoft Learns the Wrong Lesson from Apple
Awesome Inc: Y Combinator as a Reality TV Show?
6 Ways to Get Paid by Sharing Music
Better Than Free
Will Digital Textbooks Work for Students?
Marriott: Corporate Blog is Worth $5 Million
Opentape Sticks It to RIAA with Open Source Muxtape
Google Launches Search Engine Suggestions
How to Filter RSS Feeds
Is It Time to Ditch IE6?
Microsoft Releases Photosynth: Just a Novelty?
SitePoint Marketplace Reports Record Sell-Through Rate
Twitter Gets Serious About Spam
Yahoo! Runs Headlong Into Newspaper Business
Money of the Crowds: Crowdsourced Funding
eBay Is Slowly Losing Its Soul
Report: News More Likely to Go Viral than Humor
No Twitter SMS? Now You Can Pay For It
20 Sites to Get You in Shape
Simplicity vs. Features: A False Dichotomy?
Yahoo! Buzz Probably Won't Send You Loads of Traffic
The Future of News Filtering: By Credibility?
Information Silos are Bad for the Web
TV Slowly Learning to Play Nice with the Web
For the Best SEO, Google Says Think Text
reCAPTCHA: Awesome Use of Wasted Time That Works
Surprising: Web Shows Growing US Interest in Football (Soccer)
Why People Pirate Software
Video Ad Network Shifts Focus, Raises Money
Who Knew There Was A Market for $100 T-Shirts
Digg Sucks at Finding Breaking News
That Crushing Wave of Broadband Use? Actually Not So Crushing
Facebook Encroaches Further on FriendFeed's Turf
Paul Graham: Microsoft Couldn't Handle Y Combinator
News Flash: The Cloud Will Go Down
Twitter's Follow Limit Makes Twitter Less Useful
Why Closed Platforms Could Ruin the Web
Will the iPhone Kill the Kindle?
Olympics Online a Modest Hit for NBC
Is John McCain Encouraging Comment Spam?
Poll: Will You Opt Out of Google, Yahoo! Ads?
15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging
Study: Kids No Longer Into Social Networking
Are YouNoodle's Startup Valuations Worth Anything?
8tracks — The Legal Web Mixtape
Microsoft Community Projects: A Page from Google's Playbook
WebEquity: Australia's Sweat Equity Marketplace
Adobe Wins Gold in Online Olympics
Mozilla to Designers: Help Us Create the Future Web
Central Desktop Adds Database API to Collaboration Suite
Can You Make A Living As an iPhone Developer?
Yahoo! Releases Music API
Adobe CTO: Interactive Flash Video Coming
Digitizing Paper is a New Cottage Industry
Yahoo! Is Becoming A Leading Semantic Web Pusher
Advice: Microsoft Should Invest Y Combinator-style
Addicted to Email? You're Not Alone
The New Delicious is Finally Here
Scrabulous Reborn as Wordscraper (Sort Of)
Yahoo!: Web 3.0 is All About Desktop RIAs
You Don't Have to Kill Google to Make a Killing
Watch Out PayPal, Amazon Gets Serious About Payments
Scrabulous is Toast: Did Hasbro Really Have a Case?
Looking to Flip a Web Site? Try SitePoint.
W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices
Microsoft's Answer to PageRank: BrowseRank
Did Facebook Flub their Redesign?
4 Ways to Beat Google at Search
Hasbro Sues Facebook App Scrabulous
CenSEARCHip: Visually Comparing the Effects of Online Censorship
Knol: Google vs. the Internet
What the Heck Happened to our Attention Spans?
Finally, Facebook Reportedly Adding Web Search This Fall
Facebook Connect is Beacon Done Right
GitHub Gist is Pastie on Steroids
Just What Is the Open Web?
Webmasters.org Sells for $50k on SitePoint
Glam Media Launches App Platform
Sometimes You Have to Say No to Your Users
Twitter vs. Congress
Google Maps Launches Walking Directions
Will Facebook’s New Design Hurt App Developers?
For a Startup, Is a Virtual Office Enough?
Don’t Get Burned When the Cloud Goes Down
Top 10 Ways to Track Buzz
Yahoo!’s Last Ditch Effort to Save Itself
Interview: L. Lee Lowe—A Blogging Novelist
Study: Why Most Online Communities Fail
Zembly: Social Development for Social Apps - 100 Invites
Microsoft Wants Ad Volume: Try AOL, Not Yahoo!
Use Google Gears for Fast Client-Side Search
Microsoft Opens Live Mesh to All
LinkedIn Tries Facebook-Style Ads
Report: Small Publishers See eCPMs Drop
Potential Buyers for Digg: Print Media?
Google Offers Glimpse at Future Video Search
Any Way You Slice It: YouTube Dominates Online Video
Trent Reznor and the Theory of “True Fans”
Xbox 360 + Netflix: Another Nail in the Blockbuster Coffin
Is the World Ready for Digg-Style Government?
How to Pitch a Blogger
Wridea: Online Idea Management Application
Is Google Heading Down the Yahoo! Path?
ScrnShots: A Gallery of App Design Inspiration
RSS Filtering Now an API with PostRank
Can A Million Niche Yahoo!s Beat Google?
9 Ways to Put Site Screenshots in Your Web App
Google Adds Search Volume to Keyword Tool
3 Big Changes to SitePoint's Blogs
Social Search is Not the Future
How to Speak Directly to Your Customers
What Facebook Should Do Next
Let the Crowd Build Your App

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