A few other performance tips, while I'm geeking out.  During the development of Groove 2.1 (coming soon!), one of the things that we were concentrating on was reduction of disk fragmentation through work in our XML object store.  (It's awesome.  Make sure that you defrag your disk after you've installed 2.1, for a clean start.)… Continue reading disk fragmentation

Doc and Dave and David are talking about operating systems.  I somewhat take issue with the fact that the base OS is commoditized; OS issues are still quite relevant. Bottom line: if you care about getting software out to your users as quickly and as broadly as possible, the code beneath you that you can… Continue reading Doc

Dan Gillmor opines on Groove, Windows, and control.  Dan, the fascinating thing about our product and business to date is that we're experiencing both edge-effects and center-effects. I've seen enough change in this industry that I won't speculate about what the future holds.  I can tell you that I will do what it takes to ensure that Groove… Continue reading Dan Gillmor

Fascinating InfoWorld interview with Jeff Raikes about the future of Office and SharePoint, by Steve Gillmor, Ed Scannell, Jon Udell, and Mark Jones. [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

Boston Globe:  Update on DNA Bay >>>There is an extraordinary concentration of today's biotech industry in Massachusetts, with 275 companies in the state – 54 of them within a mile of the MIT campus. The big pharmaceutical companies are establishing a huge research and development presence here. Most notably, a few weeks ago Novartis announced… Continue reading Boston Globe

Cable companies should be using the bandwidth reserved for these low yield movie on demand channels to cut their prices on high speed Internet access down to $19.95 a month.  This extra bandwidth could even allow them to offer tiered services.  Now, that would be the smart thing to do. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Remember, you can create your own newsfeeds even when they aren't available.  Paolo's RSS Distiller (a tool for Radio) is available on eVector's store.  This tool essentially gives you the ability to do what Yahoo and the other big news aggegator sites do (given that three years ago these companies spent tens of millions of… Continue reading store

I just finished some documentation on Radio UserLand for K-Loggers.  I am going to include how to set up a Radio Community, more concepts about K-Logging best practices, and other tips soon.  Let me know what you think. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Off to Ohio again for the weekend!

John Robb: “This next release of Frontier is going to be huuuge and provide us with a framework that will let us go the distance with our customers.” [Scripting News]