Month: August 2002

Boston Globe:  Update on DNA Bay >>>There is an extraordinary concentration of today's biotech industry in Massachusetts, with 275 companies in the state – 54 of them within a mile of the MIT campus. The big pharmaceutical companies are establishing a huge research and development presence here. Most notably, a few weeks ago Novartis announced… Continue reading Boston Globe

Cable companies should be using the bandwidth reserved for these low yield movie on demand channels to cut their prices on high speed Internet access down to $19.95 a month.  This extra bandwidth could even allow them to offer tiered services.  Now, that would be the smart thing to do. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Remember, you can create your own newsfeeds even when they aren't available.  Paolo's RSS Distiller (a tool for Radio) is available on eVector's store.  This tool essentially gives you the ability to do what Yahoo and the other big news aggegator sites do (given that three years ago these companies spent tens of millions of… Continue reading store

I just finished some documentation on Radio UserLand for K-Loggers.  I am going to include how to set up a Radio Community, more concepts about K-Logging best practices, and other tips soon.  Let me know what you think. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Off to Ohio again for the weekend!

John Robb: “This next release of Frontier is going to be huuuge and provide us with a framework that will let us go the distance with our customers.” [Scripting News]

Ray Ozzie: “If you can get people to work in the open, it can be quite valuable to others.” [Scripting News]

myOnlineLife. Wow – while I was on vacation, I missed the release of myRadio. “This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework. The GUI (screenshot) is reminiscent of My… Continue reading myOnlineLife

Dreaming Big. Question: is there a way for a library to provide its own toolbar (similar to Google's) that would let users search the library's catalog and web site? I'm talking about more than just a javascript-based bookmark/favorite like the one Noble provides, although I think that's a great widget, too, and I adapted it for SLS… Continue reading Dreaming Big

More on translucent databases. A few weeks back I mentioned Peter Wayner's new book on Translucent Databases. Simson Garfinkel writes about it at more length in this oreillynet.com article: … [Jon's Radio]