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I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Brandeis University today, which was fun. Brandeis of course is my Alma Mater, so I was quite at home there. The course was about “Internet and Society” and the section was about Collaboration. Here are my slides, for those few who might be interested.
Behavior Signature Analysis (Demo Series 10) This is a little arcane but I thought it was an interesting pattern among several products launched at Demo 2004. “Behavior Signature Analysis” is the idea of learning something about the intent or higher level purpose of an activity by doing pattern ...
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Outlook 2003 Rant. What were those guys thinking? Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those Microsoft haters. I love Microsoft. I admire their work. But in this instance...
BlogBridge has spiffy new icons. More progress the last week or so, with the addition of some nicenew eye candy. It’s getting closer and closer to being usable for real. If you want to try it out, send me an email and I will tell you where to download it. (It’s not ready for prime time yet, though, just for playing around.)
The beat goes on. Now that we have Unread working, the time was ripe to add several new commands to the user interface. With the help of Everaldo, I am now using the Crystal Icon Set, which has provided a wonderful face lift for BlogBridge. Feedback welcome! Also with the help of one of our offshore developers (in the Ukraine) there are major improvements (and more coming) in the rendering of the Blog Aricles, which now include support for a larger subset of html, including images and soon links.
Stewart Alsop ” the best political columnist of the past century”: Well, that’s high praise from William Safire in a New York Times editorial today. Stewart of course has been known as a technology columnist, author of a great Tech newslet...
Read more →BlogBridgeupdate. In the last few days I’ve made some reasonable progress on BlogBridge, both from my own personal efforts coding, as well as getting another developer involved in a small way. As time frees up, I am planning to invest more of my own time as well as getting others to contribute on this thing. Still Fun! (If you don’t know what BlogBridge is, check this out.)
We made some major new progress since the last update. Unread Management. The persistent RSS layer (Informa) has been updated to support Unread management. This has been carried through the rest of BlogBridge, using Bold in the Channel Guide and in the Article list in the usual way to show read...
Read more →What you may not know about Eclipse. (Demo 2004 Series 10) If you are a Java developer and you haven’t checked out the Eclipse Development tool from www.eclipse.org, then you owe yourself a treat. Who knows if you get excited about that kind of thing, but it gives me *c...
Read more →RSS/Atom: An idea whose time has come. Dave Winer is reaching out to the Atom people to try for the grand unification of the two formats. If you look back at the history of how Atom c...
Read more →Update on Digital Photography. When I wrote a few days ago about OurPictures Network. a new service that was launched at Demo 2004, it wasn’t available yet. I just found out that they have started running a free trial. I haven’t experimented much with it yet, so I don’t know how good it is.
Flipstart from Vulcan (Demo 2004 Series – 9): This is a weird little device. It’s essentially a Windows XP computer using thumb keyboard. The dimensions are (from memory, now 4″ x 6″ x 1″) It has a 30Gig disk, and fast chip. It also has built in Wi-Fi. It has a...
Read more →Open Source, BlogBridge and Offshore Development. I’ve been using several neat offshore development options in my work on Blog Bridge, a new kind of Blog Reader that I’ve been working on (very) part time. You can read all about it: here. There’s a developer in **Ru...
Read more →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...
Read more →Howard Stern finally has found his match. You know I am a Howard Stern fan. It looks like they (‘the bad guys’) are finally going to get their way and kick him off the air. Stern Fan Bloggers Unite!
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.
