nEcho. nEcho continues to fly off the rails. [Mark Bernstein]
Month: July 2003
Big Picture Status Report
Big Picture Status Report. I thought it would be of interest to periodically update readers what is going on at OSAF, especially since signs of progress are often invisible from the outside. Our development methodology is evolving. We are using Bugzilla to track development tasks, not just bugs. Michael Toy, OSAF's Development Manager, has written… Continue reading Big Picture Status Report
More on Hydra
More on Hydra. More on the use of Hydra in the “gathered together/logged in together” pattern, among conference goers at Apple's WWDC conference: However, those with a clue– of which I got one on Wednesday– used Hydra to take live, collaborative, notes during the various sessions. Someone in the session would start an ad-hoc Hydra… Continue reading More on Hydra
Ray Ozzie on “Extreme Mobility”
Ray Ozzie on “Extreme Mobility”. Great essay by Ray Ozzie on Extreme Mobility, on the broad effects of Laptops/pdas/tablets, phones-as-devices, Wifi, and GPRS, and where its taking us: If technology, molded into any of a variety of forms, can ultimately give us continuous awareness of the geo-location, activity, interruptability, and even potentially “state of mind”… Continue reading Ray Ozzie on “Extreme Mobility”
Food Brokers: an oligopoly in the middle
Even more dramatic than the concentration of supermarkets
Even more dramatic than the concentration of supermarkets
Food Brokers: an oligopoly in the middle Even more dramatic than the concentration of supermarkets has been the concentration of food brokers, the middlemen in the food industry. There are now just three privately held companies in the U.S. that dominate this field: Acosta, Advantage Sales and Marketing, and Crossmark. All three have quadruped in… Continue reading
Food Brokers: an oligopoly in the middle
Even more dramatic than the concentration of supermarkets
Open Government Awareness Project
Open Government Awareness Project. The LitiGator & boing boing are talking about the MIT Media Lab's ambitous new Open Government Information Awareness project. It hopes to organize information about all governmental agencies and related individuals and parties in an Internet Movie Database-type web-accessible database. This information is already known to lobbyists for the wealthy and influential. Balancing things out… Continue reading Open Government Awareness Project
About.com
One thing I always wanted to do is to pull together experts in combination with an online advertising agency to build an About.com on the cheap using weblogs. I think I have the advertising agency that would pay the bills. Would any be interested in doing this? It would be pure collaborative revenue share and I think… Continue reading About.com
'Benjamin Franklin': The Many-Minded Man
'Benjamin Franklin': The Many-Minded Man. Walter Isaacson's biography presents Franklin the scientist, Franklin the diplomat, Franklin the philosopher and others. By Joseph J. Ellis. [New York Times: Books]
RSS innovation with source GUID
RSS innovation with source GUID. We've not made much noise about it but something that Paolo and I have been doing is working within the framework of RSS2.0 to deliver what we see as useful functionality. ENT 1.0 is one of those things, another is SGUID. SGUID allows an aggregator to unambiguously identify the post… Continue reading RSS innovation with source GUID
Windows Palmtops Reviewed
Windows Palmtops Reviewed. Microsoft has introduced a new operating system for hand-helds aimed at making wireless Internet connections easier. Is it any good? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology] An interesting excerpt: Clearly, Microsoft still thinks about simplicity and directness only as an afterthought, if at all. (After my review of Pocket PC 2002… Continue reading Windows Palmtops Reviewed