David Coursey’s back! Well, I guess I may have been the last to notice. David wrote what was my favorite punditry column when he was at Anchordesk. Then he stopped, and I unsubscribed. Now via a pointer from Kevin W.’s blog I come to see David’s back at it, and right there is his analysis of Social Networks. How apropos! David says that he’s been getting tons of LinkedIn invitiations and that he’s flattered, but he often doesn’t even remember the person. Oops. I will send him an email. Let’s see if he remembers me 🙂
Social Networking (Demo 2004 Series – 8) I’ve written a few times about Orkut and LinkedIn and the kind-of-funny-kind-of-strange infatuation with Orkut among the Digerati that seems to have peaked and now died off. Anyway, Friendster was demoing at Demo, so I had a c...
Smiley Queries. Ok, here are two for you to ponder: How do you put a smiley inside parentheses? (And by the way, I am (not) trying to be funny 🙂 And while we are on the topic, does the smiley have a nose, or not, or is it a different kind of smile? 🙂
Feeling like a Red Sox Fan. Kerry seems to have won the Democratic nomination, and convincingly. I’m rooting for him in the Big Show in November, right along many others, but, why do I feel like a Red Sox Fan?
Google Coolness. Well those wacky guys and gals at Google keep on coming out with neat new stuff. Check out http://www.google.com/help/features.html for a whole bunch of neat new searches. Among them you’ll find Vehcile ID Numbers (e.g. “AAAAA999A9AA99999”) and Patents (e.g. “Patent 5317686”) Follow the link above to see all the other cool encantations. Is this the return of the command line? After all these years distancing ourselves from the infamous command line (remember 4GLs?) how are we supposed to remember all these weird encantations. GUI anyone?
Scoble on Search. Robert Scoble (of Microsoft fame) writes about a new search utility called LookOut. Scanning the web site, it looks pretty cool. The idea of going to Outlook to search the file system, though, is a little odd to me. I recently wrote about my favorite tool in this space, X1. Check it out.
Comparing this years Demo to previous years (Demo 2004 Series – 7A) As I’ve been writing these little Demo reports from my notes, I realized that as I have been going to Demo for years (in fact I think I’ve been to almost all of them) I had perhaps an interesting perspective, and this little thoughtlet bubbled in my brain: In the last few years, the burst bubble seemed to impact Demo by showing down to earth, obvious ROI products and services. This year there seems to be a few more out-there product and service ideas. I thought that was a positive development and perhaps a sign that we are recovering somewhat from the shock of the last 3 years.
Email is not dead (Demo 2004 Series – 7) I continue to be an avid follower of what’s going on in the email space. Why? Here are some things to think about: From my eRoom and Collaboration days, I’ve been very aware of the challenges to achieving adoption. My view is ...
Just a quick note about what’s up with BlogBridge. My time has been severely drained by a new consulting project, so progress has slowed down more than I would like. The last while I was knee-deep in installation, deployment, upgrade facilities. I looked at a bunch of possible ways of distributing,i...
Forced to use Atom. Well, it’s happening… My friend Paul English has been using Blogger for the longest time for his personal blog. I often complained to him that I used a Blog Reader (FeedDemon is my current favorite, until BlogBridge comes out 🙂 and wouldn’t be a...
New in the world of Digital Photography (Demo 2004 Series – 4) The beat goes on in the world of Digital Photography. Two very nice (and one less nice) Photo Sharing products were launched at Demo this year. Quick notes on three of those. *[PhotoSite from Homestead](http://www.photosite.com/...
Real Virtual Reality! (Demo 2004 Series – 6) I am not clear as to whether Total Immersion is a product, company, research product or what. But they had the most compelling and memorable technology demonstration. It was an amazing virtual reality experience of what ...
Adobe Enterprise document control technology (Demo 2004 Series – 5) They have come up with a policy server to control and log access to pdf documents. I don’t think it has a name yet. It is very similar but much more limited than [Liquid Machine’s](http://www.liquidmachines.com/index.shtml...
Amazing little rover “calculates its own location in the universe…..on Mars”: I just can’t get enough of this amazing bit of engineering called the Mars Rover. Get this: > Opportunity also updated its “attitude knowledge,” which fine-tunes...
Key Computing’s Xkey: (Demo 2004 Series – 3) By my informal survey, this was the favorite at demo. XKey is a tiny USB port device (kind of like one of those little USB flash devices) which, by plugging into a laptop, **transforms the host computer...
Working on installation and deployment features. We will be using Java Web Start for this. We have not yet decided how open to make this yet. Most likely initially it will be via ‘secret URL’. You have to ask to get it.
Demo 2004 Series – I just returned from the Demo 2004 Conference, and I have some news and ideas that I will be writing about in the coming days. At the highest level, Demo is a conference that I’ve been going to for years. It is in the...
Search Innovations (Demo 2004 Series – 2) – Two interesting Seach products were showcased: Grokker 2 from Groxis and p-Zoom from Big On The Net. They were both variations of a similar id...
Happy Valentines Day. As you can see, there is a new web site design. This one was created by a designer in China. I just thought I wanted something a little more professional. As for the software, there are several new developments. We are diving into the questions of unread handling. This is leading to new designs in several areas: there is now a BlogBridge Preferences dialog. Included here will be settings allowing Articles to be automatically set to unread under certain conditions. Also there will be some changes required in the low level persistence handling to track unread.