Jeffrey Veen

Senator Barak Obama visited Google today and spent about 90 minutes in our cafe talking and answering questions. He was...

This post was written on  14 Nov 2007 and has 5 comments

This week in Washington DC, my former colleagues at Adaptive Path are holding their annual User Experience Week conference. Part...

This post was written on  16 Aug 2007 and has 4 comments

The editors of xhtml.com recently invited me to participate in a series they're running titled Fixing the Web. In particular,...

This post was written on   7 Aug 2007 and has 11 comments

Combine a rich, well-designed web application with professional cycling and what do you get? Well, all of my available...

This post was written on  21 Feb 2007 and has 14 comments

Swivel launched recently, and was immediately dubbed by TechCrunch as the "YouTube for data." The service allows people to upload...

This post was written on   7 Dec 2006 and has 9 comments

Overview: reading RSS feeds in IE7 and Outlook 2007 - Kevin C. Tofel takes a look at how Microsoft is...

This post was written on  21 Nov 2006 and has 1 comments

I'm trying Technorati's new "Link Count Widget" on my blog -- it's a bit of Javascript that adds the number...

This post was written on  19 Nov 2006 and has 7 comments

For 21 years, Tom Brokaw was the anchor of the NBC Nightly News -- a tenure which saw some dramatic...

This post was written on  10 Oct 2006 and has 9 comments

I work at a big company now, and that means I wear a little plastic ID badge with my picture...

This post was written on  10 Aug 2006 and has 6 comments

Floyd Landis, a former mountain biker from San Diego, won the Tour de France yesterday. He achieved this through one...

This post was written on  24 Jul 2006 and has 26 comments

Yahoo has launched a redesign of their homepage recently, making ambitious use of Ajax-inspired design techniques and technologies. As Dan...

This post was written on  19 Jul 2006 and has 14 comments

I was waiting for a friend in the lobby of the Hilton down at Union Square. Near me was a...

This post was written on  27 Jun 2006 and has 77 comments

I couldn't be happier that Jesse James Garrett has won a Wired Rave award for his popularization of Ajax. JJG...

This post was written on   1 Jun 2006 and has 5 comments

I heard Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, speak recently as part of the Long Now Foundation's seminar series. He...

This post was written on  19 Apr 2006 and has 3 comments

Big news today: Measure Map has been acquired by Google, and we're down in Mountain View getting started on everything...

This post was written on  14 Feb 2006 and has 51 comments

The debate over the journalistic standards of bloggers is not new; it pops up with enough frequency to keep...

This post was written on  11 Feb 2006 and has 5 comments

Doing interesting Web stuff in the SF Bay Area? The SFWIN is meeting tomorrow (2 Feb 2006) at Adaptive Path's...

This post was written on   1 Feb 2006 and has 1 comments

Back when I was in journalism school in the late 80s (yikes), I remember spending about half a class period...

This post was written on   3 Jan 2006 and has 5 comments

Michael outlines the Web 2.0 product roadmap (while proving Ta-da List a capable blogging tool). Measure Map hits 13 of...

This post was written on  22 Nov 2005 and has 7 comments

I was at a sports expo this weekend -- booths of vendors set up around a marathon in San Jose,...

This post was written on   2 Nov 2005 and has 19 comments

There was a time, late in 2004, when invitations to Google's Gmail service were selling for $40 on Craig's...

This post was written on  25 Oct 2005 and has 12 comments

Last week, my old friend Kevin Lynch from Macromedia stood on stage at the Web 2.0 conference and introduced...

This post was written on  12 Oct 2005 and has 34 comments

Last week I spoke at Web Essentials '05, an invigorating conference in Sydney, Australia. The folks attending were so engaged...

This post was written on   3 Oct 2005 and has 30 comments

All of these things are probably true of the work you do online: Your web site is a tiny piece...

This post was written on  26 Sep 2005 and has 4 comments

Anil Dash makes some excellent observations in his latest post on Web Development Trends for 2006. All of them are...

This post was written on   8 Sep 2005 and has 13 comments

We did a little experiment in collaborative technology at Adaptive Path's annual User Experience Week conference. In addition to the...

This post was written on  25 Aug 2005 and has 6 comments

There is a lot going on, for sure, just not much time to write about it. So I'll point you...

This post was written on  17 Aug 2005 and has 2 comments

I like being connected. I like being able to just open up my laptop and start communicating - catch up...

This post was written on   9 Aug 2005 and has 17 comments

A friend working in IT for a large telecoms once told me, "Sixty percent of your phone bill comes from...

This post was written on   7 Aug 2005 and has 9 comments

TagCloud is a relatively new service that attempts to automate the creation of folksonomies. The service starts off by asking...

This post was written on   7 Jul 2005 and has 9 comments

Very few successful products come to market exactly as expected, but Flickr really took it to a whole new level....

This post was written on  26 Jun 2005 and has 3 comments

Please do me a favor: the next time you're about to describe how simple a technology is to understand, think...

This post was written on  15 May 2005 and has 12 comments

I'll admit to not using Yahoo for daily news all that much, but I was recently impressed by an unknown-to-me...

This post was written on  24 Apr 2005 and has 10 comments

Recently, Matt has been collecting and posting the interesting things showing up in the new satellite imagery on Google Maps....

This post was written on   7 Apr 2005 and has 20 comments

I had a minor epiphany during a panel discussion at SxSW this week. After a lively discussion with my fellow...

This post was written on  18 Mar 2005 and has 7 comments

Bruce Sterling's keynote at South by Southwest is always very popular and very entertaining. This year, his topics bounced...

This post was written on  15 Mar 2005 and has 5 comments

We live in an old (by California standards) Art Deco building, built in 1931. We love the rich architectural...

This post was written on   2 Mar 2005 and has 17 comments

With the announcement of Odeo ("what Blogger did for publishing, we'll do for podcasting"), Ev Williams is getting a lot...

This post was written on  27 Feb 2005 and has 14 comments

Waiting for my lunch order in a restaurant near South Park. I overhear two people talking in a nearby booth....

This post was written on  22 Feb 2005 and has 7 comments

There have been some very good posts from Merlin over at 43Folders recently on the topic of email management --...

This post was written on  18 Feb 2005 and has 13 comments

The first issue of Make showed up the other day, and I can't put it down. Dale Dougherty and his...

This post was written on  13 Feb 2005 and has 1 comments

"Hey buddy, got a light?" "Uh, what? Oh, heh. No, that's just my iPod case." helixipod is a talented...

This post was written on   9 Feb 2005 and has 3 comments

There's a great discussion going on over at Jason's site debating the merits of blocking advertising in RSS. It's not...

This post was written on   7 Dec 2004 and has 2 comments

I recently came across an academic paper titled, The PowerPoint Presentation and Its Corollaries: How Genres Shape Communicative Action in...

This post was written on  29 Nov 2004 and has 18 comments

I've long been a fan of the case studies in the Harvard Business Review. Typically, the publication sets out a...

This post was written on  13 Nov 2004 and has 5 comments

http://marc.blogs.it/platform/platform.jpg http://marc.blogs.it/participation/participation.jpg http://marc.blogs.it/mediadudes/mediadudes.jpg http://marc.blogs.it/voip/voip.jpg http://marc.blogs.it/mobilegeeks/mobilegeeks.jpg http://marc.blogs.it/scarred/scarred.jpg They were all taken by the obstreperous Marc Cantor. They all depict panel...

This post was written on  10 Oct 2004 and has 31 comments

There was a panel at the Web2.0 conference today discussing the music business, and the implications of current digital trends...

This post was written on   6 Oct 2004 and has 2 comments

Open source content management software sucks. It sucks really badly. The only things worse is every commercial CMS I've used....

This post was written on   3 Oct 2004 and has 104 comments

My colleague at Adaptive Path Peter Merholz and I are heading to Boston on 13 October 2004 to conduct a...

This post was written on  29 Sep 2004 and has 5 comments

I have a feeling -- call it a hunch -- that the battery in my Powerbook might be experiencing some...

This post was written on  24 Sep 2004 and has 3 comments

"When my underemployed freelance writing friends in New York saw Blogger, they took to it like poor people to crack."...

This post was written on  21 Sep 2004 and has 1 comments

I got a note from Merlin recently letting me know about his new site, 43 Folders. He calls it "A...

This post was written on   9 Sep 2004 and has 0 comments

Years ago, I remember hearing a quote attributed to former Netscape engineer Jamie Zawinski that went something like, "All software...

This post was written on  17 Aug 2004 and has 7 comments

Over the past year, I’ve evaluated the search experiences on a number of popular content sites. With the help of...

This post was written on  13 Aug 2004 and has 4 comments

The Wall Street Journal's venerable Walt Mossberg spends some time with the unattractively-named Network Walkman NW-HD1 from Sony, and compares...

This post was written on  28 Jul 2004 and has 10 comments

When something stands between your users and their goals, one of two things typically happens. If they truly wish to...

This post was written on  18 Jul 2004 and has 10 comments

There is a certain smug satisfaction in being a Mac owner and walking into an Apple Store. Compared to a...

This post was written on  13 Jul 2004 and has 5 comments

Here's an interesting equation: Most bands and labels are posting free mp3s of their latest music on their sites. Add...

This post was written on   7 Jul 2004 and has 48 comments

I've written before about the del.icio.us social bookmark manager, and how to take the data you store there and repurpose...

This post was written on   7 Jul 2004 and has 2 comments

Many years ago, veen.com was born in a HotWired server closet, running MacHTTP on a IIci. It was a very...

This post was written on   9 Jun 2004 and has 1 comments

I'm sitting in a usability session for a Web site with streaming audio. The woman at the computer says, "Oh,...

This post was written on  25 May 2004 and has 5 comments

When our friends over at Blogger asked us for help with the user experience of their site, we jumped at...

This post was written on  10 May 2004 and has 18 comments

I've been talking to a lot of folks who have been through content management projects recently. It's easy to find...

This post was written on   5 May 2004 and has 8 comments

Have you clicked "no" yet? You know, you get that email that says so-and-so has asked to be your friend...

This post was written on  29 Mar 2004 and has 12 comments

Two notable occurrences on yesterday's Accessibility is for Everyone panel at SxSW. First, schedule changes and a late flight conspired...

This post was written on  14 Mar 2004 and has 7 comments

Last Fall, Eric Raymond published "The Art of Unix Programming" -- a book I'm going to have to buy, since...

This post was written on   8 Jan 2004 and has 5 comments

But it's a message worth repeating. "The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to...

This post was written on   1 Jan 2004 and has 0 comments

Speaking of music and the music industry, a number of sites are linking to the WalMart Music Download site's End...

This post was written on  22 Dec 2003 and has 2 comments

In the continuing saga of publishing my del.icio.us links, I've taken a turn towards Perl. For those of you following...

This post was written on  12 Dec 2003 and has 8 comments

I've taken the links from the right column of this site and moved them inline with content items. This gives...

This post was written on   9 Dec 2003 and has 6 comments

It was but a week ago that I toyed with the idea of collecting daily links while surfing, but ultimately...

This post was written on  30 Nov 2003 and has 3 comments

What happens with everything gets smart? As Moore's Law curves towards ever cheaper, smaller, and more powerful processing, the notion...

This post was written on  22 Oct 2003 and has 0 comments

I've made a few changes to the sidebar on this side over the last couple of weeks. I've done some...

This post was written on  17 Oct 2003 and has 2 comments

Adaptive Path project manager Merlin D. Mann III gets some good ink in the New York Times on how camera...

This post was written on  13 Oct 2003 and has 2 comments

And there it is. The welcome screen. An exquisite downtempo chill soundtrack and the world "Welcome" swimming over the monitor...

This post was written on   1 Oct 2003 and has 3 comments

This post was written on  19 Sep 2003 and has 8 comments

Merlin D. Mann III on successful project management, in free verse: I remember telling a friend that being a project...

This post was written on  17 Sep 2003 and has 1 comments

I've been using a Treo 300 for about a year now -- mostly as an extremely large and awkward phone...

This post was written on  11 Sep 2003 and has 5 comments

"Remove the PCI slot panel cover(nomatter it with screw or not,if with screw please keep the screw if not with...

This post was written on   9 Sep 2003 and has 0 comments

It's been nearly nine months since my switch back to the Mac, and I've certainly reached the point where the...

This post was written on  31 Aug 2003 and has 8 comments

I've recently finished a collection of essays titled "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First...

This post was written on  28 Jul 2003 and has 0 comments

A while back, I attended a lecture given by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive project. Brewster has an...

This post was written on  26 May 2003 and has 0 comments

Last night, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive gave a lecture at, of all places, our church (I'll post more...

This post was written on  12 May 2003 and has 0 comments

How's this for ease of use? Want to add a file server to your home network? Get the Martian NetDrive...

This post was written on  21 Mar 2003 and has 1 comments

I was just having a look at the new superthin Actius MM10 laptop from Sharp. I used an Actius a...

This post was written on  10 Mar 2003 and has 2 comments

I still find it a rare exception when a mobile Web technology proves useful. Generally, it's easier to make a...

This post was written on  17 Feb 2003 and has 1 comments

As we marched down Market Street in today's peace rally, I was impressed with examples of mobile technology at work....

This post was written on  18 Jan 2003 and has 0 comments

Count me among the converted. Or, rather, the returning prodigal son. I'd been using computers from Apple since 1982, when...

This post was written on   5 Jan 2003 and has 0 comments

Creative Commons has launched today, offering you the ability to put your content under more a progressive and descriptive license...

This post was written on  16 Dec 2002 and has 0 comments

My wife, Leslie, posts weekly to a much more interesting blog than this one. In fact, she even got a...

This post was written on  28 Nov 2002 and has 0 comments