After nine months of talk and fifteen months of solid work, we're done. Tonight we've released the first selling version of Tidepool and Storymill to a select group of friends. Since there's currently no content on Storymill, we're having a "mill-warming" first, wherein we dress up the place with our favorite photos and stories. After a few weeks of rummaging about the place ourselves, we'll throw open our doors to the world. We go public on March 21st. If you'd like to participate in our "mill-warming", send me an email....

Here's what I wrote tonight before I took out the snipping shears: Q) Why should I pay money when other programs and websites are free? A) Our answer is pretty simple: if you like us better, you'll want to pay our modest fees. We feel they're fair and the money lets us keep making our products better and better. We're not some corporate juggernaut, throwing money and bandwidth away just to capture mindshare to inflate our stock value. We don't secretly have an "acquisition strategy", hoping to be bought out by someone. Truth is, we've all worked for companies like...

Tonight we celebrated Immuexa's seventh anniversary by publicly launching Tidepool and Storymill while having dinner at Bubba's Pot Belly Stove in Quakertown PA. To check out our efforts, visit storymill.com. You can also read the announcement that got mailed out from Bubba's. Quite a trip it's been from our first glimpse release a year ago and project start fifteen months ago. Many heartfelt thanks to Team Realize and the hundred helpful folk who made it all happen....

We started integrating FOAF into Storymill and Tidepool more than a year ago. Like the RSS feeds that served up RDF and photos to PhotoBingo, we've hidden the FOAF fruits of our earlier efforts until we update things to be more compatible with our field-level permissions structure. You'd think with FOAF icons and the word "friend" everywhere on the site there'd be a least one FOAF file! Don't worry, they're there. They're just hidden. Every Storymill user will have an automatically generated FOAF file that gets dynamically created for each person that sees it (friends will see more info). The...

A personal request: please take a few minutes to read over Tidepool's features. If you like where we're headed, please help us spread the word by tellings friends or posting mentions of it publicly. We're a small company without much of a marketing budget that has just spent 15 months making two commercial Semantic Web apps. I believe that if we succeed even a little bit, the Semantic Web will be better for it. Thanks, Timothy...

The last eight months have been for me a forced march through some pretty awful terrain ... chloe's death, my sister's cancer, some surreal brother battles, and .. and .. and .. and .. Hard to even write about this last one, this recent, rotted, overwhelming undertow. Some things are just bigger than words allow, and so with pathetic resignation I find myself talking in a trance, watching words babble out my mouth, feeling like I'm playing a harp with oven mitts. A month ago, my wife and I were joyful beyond measure, celebrating the birth of our adopted baby...

There are moments when technology transcends mere niftiness and reaches high enough to satisfy an age-old human longing, as with the moon landings or first flight. Here's a true eagle cam. Unbelievable. We've been near the bird, but never on the bird....