InfoWorld.  My take on this article is very similar to Dave's.  I would entitle the article:  “Microsoft fiddles while Rome burns”  Basically, Microsoft is focusing all their attention on enterprise computing, which is a major dog right now (and likely to remain so for years to come), while the market for PC's falters due to a… Continue reading InfoWorld

Quick – Close The Lid!. Phil Wolff outlines the library service [he] want[s]: an Amazon alternative and asks who would build it: “Version 1 Pass two elements: ISBN ZIP code This might look like: http://cardcat.com/isbn/1234567890/zip/94610/ Return: The book description and a list of libraries in or near the location that have this book in their collection. Availability… Continue reading Quick – Close The Lid!

Five years ago today was my first day working on Groove – an incredible journey, and yet it's only just begun. In 1996, I had begun to feel some frustration within the Notes customer base as they were trying to push it in ways that it hadn't been designed for – particularly outside the enterprise… Continue reading Five years ago

PC Magazine choses the NEC PowerMate eco for its editor's choice award in the “innovative PC” category.  [The Scobleizer]

Wi-Fi on Steriods. Proxim's product, priced from about $2,000 to $6,000, will include all the equipment necessary to become a small-scale network provider. The price differs depending on the quality of equipment and add-ons that a buyer may want. Each kit can serve about 250 customers. [Smart Mobs]

Techniques: Telemedicine, the Easy Way. Telemedicine can be successful without being complicated. Australian doctors describe a mother's makeshift system to care for her son at home. By John O'neil. [New York Times: Technology]

Dreamweaver on DesDev – If you haven't been to the desdev center this week, pop on by. In the next couple days there are going to be a lot more articles so if you want to get the content that is current there, you might want to take a look now. After the release the… Continue reading Dreamweaver on DesDev

Web Design World 2002: Boston – Another Thunderlizard conference coming up. Apart from TODCON and the Macromedia DevCon, the Thunderlizard conferences are about the best things out there. I have been to many of these from the first Photoshop conference on to the last Web Design World and all have been outstanding. I won't be… Continue reading Another Thunderlizard conference coming up

Brent’s Law of CMS URLs. On ranchero.com today I proposed Brent’s Law of CMS URLs: The more expensive the CMS, the crappier the URLs. Compare, for instance, StoryServer’s weird comma-delimited numeric URLs to Radio UserLand’s human-readable (and guessable) URLs. Then compare the prices—orders of magnitudes of difference. So, at least in this respect, there’s an… Continue reading Brent’s Law of CMS URLs

Steal Your Interface: A History. Apple is credited with developing the graphical user interface, which Microsoft copied, but the contribution of users and small developers has been largerly overlooked. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]