Silicon Insider: Tracking the Big Trends in High-Tech
B U R L I N G A M E, Calif., Dec. 5 -- And the Next Big Thing is . . .
One of the joys of the Web is following a thematic strand to wherever the links will take you. For all the fears a couple years ago that the Web would isolate people, enabling them to talk only to people with the same tastes and prejudices as themselves, the countervailing force — wandering from site to site without any real purpose but curiosity — seems even stronger.
The “random juxtapositions” that urban theorists claim is so crucial to the vitality of cities, is also wonderfully present on the Net.
It was following one of these trails (while wandering throughArts&Letters.com) that I stumbled over a site I’d never heard of: Andreas.com.
High-Tech, From the Inside
As near as I can make out, Andreas.com is a semi-personal site created and run by someone who has worked in Silicon Valley for about 15 years, mostly in engineering, but for the last five years in technical writing. During that time he has worked for 20 companies — an astonishing number even in this gypsy town.
On his site, next to the proud only-in-the-Valley announcement “On the Web in ’95,” Andreas offers links to his books, how-to’s on building Web sites, free fonts and wallpaper, advice on how to get a job at a start-up, and pictures of cats and himself. Pretty standard stuff.
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