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I came across a fascinating article,a transcript of a speech by Christopher Alexander, architect and author of “A Pattern Language.” Alexander is the guy who invented Patterns as they have now been broadly adopted by the Software ...
Read more →Here’s an interesting link that continues on the theme from my previous post on Agent Based Modeling. This isn’t agent based, but it is kind of the most auspicious use of simulation one could imagine: “Computing the Cosmos. One of the biggest computer simulations ever run is illuminating the deepest mysteries of the universe.”
And now for something completely different. I was reading this book: “It’s Alive” over the weekend. Particularly of interest to me was all the discussion about so-called “Agent Based Modeling.” Agent based model...
Read more →Here are two very interesting posts on the question of Feed Readers: Glassdog asks “What’s wrong with Feed Readers” Rasterweb talks about “More aggregator maddness” Info Freako This is of more than passing interest to me of course, as it relates to the design ofmy Blog Reader: BlogBridge. Some of the ideas mentioned here are already planned for BlogBridge, but there are lots of good tidbits to insipre further work!
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 ...
Read more →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...
Read more →This is a really interesting new sitewhere the posters, apparently well informed folks in the intelligence, defense and state communitycomment on what’s going on in the world. (Then again, it could be a 16 year old in Argentina.) They also have a sense of humor: 
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 ...
Read more →As you know, I am quite impressed with Microsoft’s ability to build and ship and deploy and sell and support software at an absolutely mass scale. Yet, on my second XP SP2 installation, it totally destroyed and hosed my computer. It took a superhuman effort (with...
Read more →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....
Read more →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...
Read more →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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