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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...
Read more →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....
Read more →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.
Wow, they let me change my birthday. Now that’s powerful!
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!
Jon (and many others) really like Bloglines a lot; I recommend his article – there’s a lot to learn there. I want to address just one point, which is Jon’s prediction of the coming world domination by web apps. There’s an interesting paradox, ...
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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...
Read more →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 ...
Read more →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, [...
Read more →Continuing my complaintsabout Java Web Start, as if the message displayed on Windows under Java 1.5 isn’t bad enough, here’s what a slightly older version of Java displays on Linux:  just click here.
I’ve written about this before, and after all it is fairly (no, very) esoteric. Java Web Start is Java’s approach to installation and distribution and updating of Java desktop applications. It’s a really nice idea but it just is too full of problems. With a small project like BlogBridge, I guess it saves us some work, and so we use it, warts and all. Anyway, here is a bit that I found that articulatesin great gory detail all the problems. I concur and I suffer with you.
Well we’ve been busy little beavers and are getting ready to release BlogBridge Beta 2. It has quite a few nifty new features! I will write a little more about it tomorrow or Monday. We’ve done a total overhaul of the content of the web site (the look/design is unchanged.) Take a look at our Brand New Web Site An important change in opening the kimono a bit more is that you will find a direct link from our web site to install and run the beta. You are of course invited to join the beta group, but if you just want to play, go for it. Click here to download and run BlogBridge.
Dave Winer comments on the sale of OddPost to Yahoo. I’ve been an avid OddPost fan for a while and I am glad to see them succeed. It’s an impressive tour the force, an existence proof that you can build quite a nice UI in a browser. One critical detail whic...
Read more →In tracking down a ‘bug’ in BlogBridge I discovered that my RSS feed for this blog has abbreviated items, that is, without html and limited to a certain number of words. That’s not what I wanted so with this new posting I should have full items. To test this, this line is bold - And this line is bulletted
Did you know that you (or your teenager) can buy cool new ring tones for their cell phone? They cost a buck or two and are quite the rage, especially in countries other than the US 🙂 You probably knew this. Did you know that this buck or two is actually only good for a month or two of use of the ri...
Read more →Someone whose oppinion I listen to, Karsten Lentzch, recommends these books about user interface design: [Jeff Johnson: GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Do’s for Designers](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558605827/qid=1088740910/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8578301-0353756?v=glance&s...
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