Month: August 2003

Useit.Com: Mobile Devices: One Generation From Useful. The Sidekick is also known as the “Danger Device” or the “Hiptop.” When I saw an early Danger demo two years ago, I was excited about its potential. Now, after actually using it, I've concluded that one or two more generations of device designs are needed to achieve… Continue reading Mobile Devices: One Generation From Useful

Total Cost of Ownership and Technology Upgrades Law firm technology managers regularly face the question of when to upgrade software or hardware. The answer is neither easy nor obvious. Beware the Underlying Costs of Using Dated Technology from the New York Law Journal on law.com provides a good analysis of some of the hidden costs… Continue reading Total Cost of Ownership and Technology Upgrades

Why Mach II?. I've been asked this question a few times so I've written up my answer on a new Mach II page. I've also added some information about the Mach II request lifecycle to the concepts page…. [An Architect's View]

Hot Spots in Death Spiral. InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz argues that paid hot spots will be overwhelmed by cell data except in airports: I disagree with many of the premises on which Ephraim makes his argument, but I also don't think that I can prove myself correct until a few years have passed. Perhaps we need… Continue reading Hot Spots in Death Spiral

Butt ugly websites I have known. Does anyone actually use the SourceForge web site for any serious activity?  It's goddamn awful.  You'd think given how many projects they have and how long it's been going that they'd spend a little time on actually making it either user friendly, or stylish, or both. [Curiouser and curiouser!]

Validating work blogs.. How I would implement weblog in business. Lee LeFever has written a short article on the value of weblogs to share knowledge. To quote: In retrospect- a Weblog could have been extremely valuable to me and the company. Using a Weblog, I could chronicle the daily activities,… [Column Two] » More validation… Continue reading Validating work blogs.

Dan Gillmor: “Robert Scoble is a good guy, and he's good for Microsoft. But there's some kool-aid seeping out of this piece.” and “The monopoly is safe for now. Customers are not, and the world's wealthiest and most powerful monopoly should care more.” Dan: all of our executives are now compensated based on how many… Continue reading Robert Scoble is a good guy, and he's good for Microsoft. But there's some kool-aid seeping out of this piece

Randy Holloway is confused by WinFS in Longhorn. We'll talk a LOT about this after the PDC. It's one of the key pieces of Longhorn and makes it a lot easier to store, find, open, save, move, copy, and retrieve your files.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

New Scientist – Online document search reveals secrets . Many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely… Continue reading Online document search reveals secrets