A very thought provoking speech by Bruce Sterling at SigGraph 2004. Recommended. “When you shop for Amazon, you’re already adding value to everything you look at on an Amazon screen. You don’t get paid for it, but your shopping is unpaid work for them. Imagine this blown to huge proportions and attached to all your physical possessions. Whenever you use a spime, you’re rubbing up against everybody else who has that same kind of spime. A spime is a users group first, and a physical object second.”
Finally. Ever since we started working on BlogBridge, I’ve been talking about helping a user slice and dice and sort through a ton of blogs and other channels, finding the good from the bad, the interesting from the boring. Remember the catch phrase “… *the ability ...
So, some day we will consider BlogBridgecomplete enough to actually be worth a few bucks. But the question is, how much? I’ve said many times, that even if every single cool idea I have is perfectly realized that the most one could expect is maybe $20 or $30 per...
I’ve said (and believe) that there’s no other company on earth that has the capability to develop, debug, beta test, deliver software on a massive scale like Microsoft. The number of configurations (both legal and illegal) of hardware, system sofyware, application software, languages, etc that ...
The Internet Explorer team at Microsoft has a blog.It’s not too active yet. Still it’s an example of why I like blogs so much. I mean: how else and where else could I get up to the minute information about what’s going on with a product that affects me a lot? It’s great!
We just put up BlogBridge Beta 3. Check it out. It’s got many neat new features, most particularly the BlogBridge Service which I wrote about recently. Here are the key links of interest: BlogBridge Beta Download [BlogBridge Website](http://www....
This puzzled me. Once we released the BlogBridgesource code under the LGPL, it was out in the open, and published to the world. Had we forfeited the right to change the license? The answer depends on who owns and holds the Copyright to the code. As it is, all th...
I’ve done a little research about what the Open Source really means, legally, when it comes to BlogBridge. I wrote about this question a few months ago, and now, having consulted with people who know, here’s an update. First of all, start with the goals. - BlogBridge s...
Today I was introduced by two totally different people to two really cool little utilities. - Anagram.This application works with Outlook and pulls and structures contact information out of emails. Simply, you select the text with the name, phone numbers, address etc....
Joel writes a good analysis of some of the dynamics and strategy that apply to the evolution of the Windows APIs and programming paradigms in general. A good readl
I just came across this – MSN Sandbox – where you can find various Microsoft goodies which are otherwise not available. Notable is LookOut the search product that MS has recently acquired. Haven’t tried it myself – I prefer X1.
Here’s a nice bit of civic participation: the iTunes Music Store is offering single click, FREE, downloads of the 9/11 Commision Report’s Executive Summary, and of speeches from the 2004 Democratic National Convention. What a great way to make this accessible to us. Thanks!
Here’s a sneak preview of something a little bit different. As of the next beta, we will be running a BlogBridge service off our BlogBridge.com site. Initially all it will do ...
I was recently asked by a VC friend of mine what I thought of a certain Wiki product. I thought my response to him (with specific product and people references removed) might be interesting. He asked me, “Have you kept track of what’s going on in Wiki-land, and what do you think?” Here’s my **answ...
Years ago I was a hardcore Mac fanatic. I was one of the creators of a long-gone early Macintosh application called Jazz. I programmed on a Lisa in 68000 assembly language. As I said, a long time ago 🙂 Anyway, for years I’ve been a PC guy, but still with a warm spot in my heart for Mac. Recently we ...
In severalprevious postsI’ve wondered aloud: “I can see that Sun spends a ton of money on Java. It must be astronomical. What’s the strategy behind that? How do they make money on that?” Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s President and COO, [...
Wow, they let me change my birthday. Now that’s powerful!
Here’s a sneak preview of something a little bit different. As of the next beta, we will be running a BlogBridge service off our BlogBridge.com site. Initially all it will do ...