AjaxWrite - a huge missed opportunity

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 24 Maret 2006 0 komentar
So Michael Robertson has introduced AjaxWrite as a web-based word-processor. Nice idea, except what formats does it save to? MS Word, RTF, Text and PDF.How about HTML+CSS - it's how you're displaying the damn thing to me after all - how hard is it to store it in that format?This is not a new question - after all CSS is more capable than Word's internal styling.How about a Document Microformat? We...

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Deal or No Deal

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 22 Maret 2006 0 komentar
David Hornik wrote a post comparing VC and buyouts to the TV show Deal or No Deal.Now, my sons like watching this show, and I don't mind as it is a great lesson in probability. The expected value is pretty easy to calculate (sum of remaining amounts divided by number of remaining suitcases), so you have an objective valuation to compare the banker's offer against. Doing the calculation in your head...

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Microformats and Microsoft

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 21 Maret 2006 0 komentar
Bill Gates endorsed Microformats at Mix '06 yesterday. Here's the clip in Windows Media format, and QuickTime format (thanks Brian).Transcript:BILL GATES:Everything we do here has to be incredibly flexible, because you're going to be doing your own sites, you might want things that are specific to your industry that, of course, Microsoft isn't going to have those things, so you need total flexibility...

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Memetic co-option

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 14 Maret 2006 0 komentar
Podcast Delivered Originally uploaded by Mermaniac. At eTech (and apparently at SXSW too), Bruce Sterling spoke about the power of names in forming our mental representations of things. The example that leapt to mind is 'Podcasting', and seeing this AT&T billboard today brought it home for me.When we were talking about 'automatically downloading audioblogs' it took lengthy explanations...

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Ray Ozzie's microformat clipboard

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 07 Maret 2006 0 komentar
Last night at eTech, I was chatting with Rohit and Chris about microformats browser integration. With our Microformats talk today coming up, Rohit said something like "our hCard and hCalendar demos work great on the Mac, but they don't get stuff into Outlook on Windows".This morning, Ray Ozzie demoed his Live Web clipboard. This gives a way to add a scissors button to webpages to copy structured data...

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Sometimes it is Rocket Science...

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 03 Maret 2006 0 komentar
Michael Mealling works for a company that makes space rockets, and he has an idea for your next science fair - how about sending a kilogram into space and back for $250?If that sounds intriguing, they have a survey for schools (and homeschools) to fill in to see if they can get enough people together to fill a 100kg payload rocket.Technorati Tags: education, homeschool, rocket science, science fair,...

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AT&T and Suw illustrate my point below

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 02 Maret 2006 0 komentar
AT&T paid millions to run an ad that emphasises the wires in the network.If they do their job right, we are unaware of the wires.Conversely, Suw of ORG speaks clearly and coherently to DRI for 40 minutes on the threats to an open net. This is well worth watching - I learnt a lot and I've been trying to follow these issues myself.This also illustrates the deeper point - the net can as easily bring...

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