Author: Vince Kimball

What does the future hold for UserLand? Dave is at Harvard working on his fellowship. John Robb is no longer with the company. This leaves Jake and Lawrence treading water. What will become of Frontier, Manila, Radio, XML-RPC, and RSS, not to mention all of the other great stuff that is being held by the… Continue reading X-log

A shakeup at Userland?.  Looks like things are moving over in Userland, where (except for Dave, who is after all only majority shareholder now, having given up the CEO-ship when he took his fellowship) only Lawrence’s blog and the product news page have been active in the past month. Yesterday two significant happenings: John Robb… Continue reading A shakeup at Userland?

Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we're not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radio users, and for the weblog community. We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us by writing about his departure on his weblog.… Continue reading Untitled

Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance. Two open source companies, Pogo Linux Inc., a Linux hardware vendor, and MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today a partnership to build the first MySQL® database appliance, a pre-configured, fully-integrated hardware/software offering optimized for speed… Continue reading Pogo Linux and MySQL AB Announce Partnership to Deliver First MySQL Database Appliance

Massport Hunts for Logan Contractor. Massachusetts port authority Massport expects $2.5M to unwire Logan International AirPort: Although the article focuses on Wi-Fi, it's almost certain that the “other wireless” is cellular. As Dick Snyder of Concourse Communications noted when speaking on the panel on airports I moderated at 802.11 Planet, port authorities need the whole… Continue reading Massport Hunts for Logan Contractor

ArsDigita: An Alternate Perspective. Roberto Mello, a prominent contributor to the OpenACS project, sums it up: “In 2000 everything began shifting. ACS 4 seemed an excellent thing, and everybody was excited, but it was never finished and then everything just turned to Java.” Why Java? Because that's what many of our prospective clients were asking… Continue reading ArsDigita: An Alternate Perspective

OK.  Here is a status report on the Weblog Network. Sources of revenue.  I have five in mind.  None include banner advertising or sponsored sites.  I am going to work on firming these up and will keep them under wraps for competitive reasons.  Expert weblogs.  The initial response has been great (my mailbox is full… Continue reading OK.  Here is a status report on the Weblog Network.

1. Sources of revenue.  I have five in mind.  None include banner advertising or sponsored sites.  I am going to work on firming these up and will keep them under wraps for competitive reasons. 
2. Expert weblogs.  The initial response has been great (my mailbox is full even though this is a holiday weekend).  I am working on a strategy for bootstrapping this into a structure (from both the readers and authors perspective) that provides value.  Great ideas on this front.  Will assemble a team to figure this out.
3. Infrastructure and hosting.  I am looking for ideas here.  The structure of the Weblog Network is fairly simple with relatively little centralized architecture.
4. Design and programming.  I have a preliminary conceptual design
   

I just bought a DVD burner.  Wow, what fun.  I can copy a DVD in less than 30 minutes using 4x DVD that costs ~ $1 (on eBay).  I can't believe I haven't started doing this sooner.  BTW, this software from 321 Studios works great and is totally painless.  [John Robb's Weblog]

ThePacketMaster.  What is this site all about? Primarily, ThePacketMaster Linux, which is a new flavour of Linux. Why another flavour of Linux? ThePacketMaster Linux, or TPM Linux has very specific requirements, mostly oriented towards security. These requirements include: Boot and run from the CD-ROM – This allows any machine to instantly run TPM Linux, without… Continue reading ThePacketMaster

The next frontier. O'Reilly on network-aware software. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]