Author: Vince Kimball

Reuters

Reuters: “A federal appeals court sent Microsoft Corp.'s antitrust case on Friday back to a lower court to determine what remedies should be imposed on the software giant.” [Scripting News]

A new rendition

A new rendition of the block diagram I drew for the Jabber folk that got the ball rolling earlier this week. There's a new twist, I included an IM server as a Blogger-compatible server. I'd like to be able to configure Radio to mirror the flow of my weblog to IM users. This is still… Continue reading A new rendition

JabNews

JabNews: “I just successfully posted a message to a Manila-based test site with my Jabber client — the Jabber Blogging Agent is slowly getting better. I'm planning to get a version into production on jabber.org by the end of next week.” Now, let me explain what's going on there. Dave Smith, who posted that message,… Continue reading JabNews

Speaking of conserving bandwidth, have you ever looked at the HTML on Google's home page

Speaking of conserving bandwidth, have you ever looked at the HTML on Google's home page. It's the most terse coding you'll ever find. The story goes that they calculated how much each character cost them in bandwidth costs, and multiplied that by the number of hits they get, and said, “Hey, if we called our… Continue reading Speaking of conserving bandwidth, have you ever looked at the HTML on Google's home page

Predicting the Future

A friend just asked me to “predict the future” since a major magazine is asking around for ideas of what'll happen next year.

Here's what I just wrote him. I included some of their questions so you can see the format

> The time has come for us to start formulating those trends for next
> year. So, I'm contacting you and a small group of colleagues from
> industry, research, and academia to ask for your predictions for 2002.
> When you have a spare moment, please try to think of specific events
> that are likely to have a widespread impact next year. What's going to
> be on everyone's mind and in all the headlines?

George Bush will learn to use a big word properly. Oh, wait, that's not quite what you're looking for.

:-)

> 1) Will a software company start selling “web services” applications
> in volume next year, and if so, will other software companies quickly
> follow suit?

Yes. Microsoft is going to turn on its HailStorm services early next year and I know that I'll probably pay a few dollars a month so that I can upload bigger files to my MSN Train Simulator Fan Site. It looks like Microsoft is gonna be the first big fish out there, but some smaller fish will beat them to the punch (who? Wall Street Journal? AOL? http://www.plumbingsupply.com/

Predicting the Future A friend just asked me to “predict the future” since a major magazine is asking around for ideas of what'll happen next year. Here's what I just wrote him. I included some of their questions so you can see the format > The time has come for us to start formulating those… Continue reading

Predicting the Future

A friend just asked me to “predict the future” since a major magazine is asking around for ideas of what'll happen next year.

Here's what I just wrote him. I included some of their questions so you can see the format

> The time has come for us to start formulating those trends for next
> year. So, I'm contacting you and a small group of colleagues from
> industry, research, and academia to ask for your predictions for 2002.
> When you have a spare moment, please try to think of specific events
> that are likely to have a widespread impact next year. What's going to
> be on everyone's mind and in all the headlines?

George Bush will learn to use a big word properly. Oh, wait, that's not quite what you're looking for.

🙂

> 1) Will a software company start selling “web services” applications
> in volume next year, and if so, will other software companies quickly
> follow suit?

Yes. Microsoft is going to turn on its HailStorm services early next year and I know that I'll probably pay a few dollars a month so that I can upload bigger files to my MSN Train Simulator Fan Site. It looks like Microsoft is gonna be the first big fish out there, but some smaller fish will beat them to the punch (who? Wall Street Journal? AOL? http://www.plumbingsupply.com/

This Economy is Messed Up

OK, I was wrong. There are great people out of work. Even folks who have interesting blogs. Even folks who have mastered Java and Frontier/Manila. Want proof? Talk to Seth Dillingham. He's looking for a place to land and he has all those skills and more. Email him at seth@macrobyte.net

This Economy is Messed Up OK, I was wrong. There are great people out of work. Even folks who have interesting blogs. Even folks who have mastered Java and Frontier/Manila. Want proof? Talk to Seth Dillingham. He's looking for a place to land and he has all those skills and more. Email him at seth@macrobyte.net or… Continue reading

This Economy is Messed Up

OK, I was wrong. There are great people out of work. Even folks who have interesting blogs. Even folks who have mastered Java and Frontier/Manila. Want proof? Talk to Seth Dillingham. He's looking for a place to land and he has all those skills and more. Email him at seth@macrobyte.net

DHTML Hierarchical Menus: Version 4.1

DHTML Hierarchical Menus: Version 4.1. You wanted it, you got it! The latest major release of our DHTML Hierarchical Menu system features your most often requested improvement: variable width menus. Grab the new 4.1 code and read up on the latest customization options. By Peter Belesis. 0823 [WebReference News]