Author: Vince Kimball

'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. 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. 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

Evaluating Your Internet Marketing. You can't really get where you are going unless you know where you are, right? Glenn Garnes has links to some excellent free tools for evaluating your Internet marketing efforts.  [via Dennis Kennedy] [net.law.blog]

Tools. Tinderbox allow for the creation of agents, which automatically scan your notes, looking for patterns and building relationships. It's super-fast. Best of all, it stores everything in XML! (Instead of some dumb proprietary format. [Mark Bernstein]

Groupware and software that helps groups collaborate. At my law firm we use an E-mail program called Groupwise, which was probably so named because E-mail is a  great way for groups of people to collaborate.  It has other wonderful features that make it easy for us lawyers to work together.  For example, it has a… Continue reading Groupware and software that helps groups collaborate

Laptops Rule – Desktops Drool. Laptop sales outpace desktops for the first time, which is a subtly significant thing.  The advantages of mobile computing are obviously the major reason for this trend.  But the trend that tilts computer purchases in favor of laptops doesn't yet include the Wi-Fi factor, which is going to push this trajectory even faster… Continue reading Laptops Rule – Desktops Drool

BTW, Adam Kalsey wrote me a kind email where he said. “It occurred to me that in all this mess, no one has asked you why you froze the RSS and XML-RPC specs. Why did you freeze the RSS and XML-RPC specs?” I wrote Adam a lengthy reply, but then realized my post in response… Continue reading Adam Kalsey

Gates on search.  USA Today interviews Bill Gates, and there's an interesting example for Microsoft's recent interest in search technologies: “Say you keep lists. Anytime that you've mentioned a restaurant, it automatically goes onto this list of restaurants, and your system would automatically keep track of what are the hours there, how that menu has… Continue reading Gates on search

Ethan Schoonover, Lowe Worldwide:  “Groove was a massive life saver when we couldn't travel because of SARS.”  Check out this truly fascinating case study.  (and Hugh … another happy user of Pinboard!) [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]