Cool Tool. Konfabulator, a great MacOS utility for putting functional “widgets” on your desktop, is now available for Windows. Woohhoo! [Werblog]
Month: November 2004
Skype Stats
Skype Stats. An update on Skype's P2P voice over IP service, courtesy of Jeff Clavier: * 13M+ users registered * 1M+ simultaneous users reached for the first time a couple of weeks ago * 2,384,686,217 minutes served, as I type this – i.e almost 2.4 billion minutes. Just to put things in perspective: Vonage has… Continue reading Skype Stats
November 3rd Theses
November 3rd Theses. My brother Adam and some collaborators have put together 19 theses on the future of the Democratic Party. They plan to launch them in a provocative way on Monday. For those of you know don't know, Adam is the former president of the Sierra Club and a grassroots activist who runs a… Continue reading November 3rd Theses
Aschroft: judges shouldn't uphold the Constitution
Aschroft: judges shouldn't uphold the Constitution. John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General of the United States of America, has given a public, blistering critique of judges who strike down the Bush administration's policies as unconstitutional. “The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can… Continue reading Aschroft: judges shouldn't uphold the Constitution
'What We Owe Iraq': We Broke It, We Bought It
'What We Owe Iraq': We Broke It, We Bought It. There must be elections in Iraq, Noah Feldman says, but our responsibility does not end there. By ROBERT KAGAN. [NYT > Books]
EPRI report
EPRI report on a smart power upgrade to the US system. It would also help against a system attack by global guerrillas. “According to the latest edition of the Electricity Technology Roadmap that was spearheaded by EPRI in collaboration with many other groups, the societal benefits of upgrading the transmission infrastructure will far outweigh the… Continue reading EPRI report
A-Z Indexes for Web Sites: Usage and Implementation
A-Z Indexes for Web Sites: Usage and Implementation. What’s the level of interest among information architects and web developers in implementing A-Z indexes on their sites? Why don’t we see more indexes? I attempted to answer this question in a posting an essay to IA-WIKI Web Site Indexes, although I have not yet received any… Continue reading A-Z Indexes for Web Sites: Usage and Implementation
US railroads
Railroad companies change the rules We shown before how US railroads have shrunk in the last few decades from dozens to four, two companies that dominate the West and two that dominate the East. Traditional economics would see this as an opportunity for rigging prices for their customers, and this has doubtless happened, within the… Continue reading US railroads
Dave posted his thoughts
Disruption Will Come from the Outside. Tonight Dave posted his thoughts on Microsoft's botched search engine rollout: Was there any reason at all for us to come to the briefing? There's no difference between what we said to you four weeks ago and what the public is saying about the product now. We didn't need… Continue reading Dave posted his thoughts
Marc Canter
A Thousand Tornadoes Deep. My friends Marc Canter (independent) and Kim Cameron (Microsoft) are exchanging blogs about the benefits and dangers of doing business with Microsoft. Marc contends that people don't want to get locked into standards owned by Microsoft or Sun. Kim wants to look beyond the past and create a “big bang” of… Continue reading Marc Canter