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Tim Oren writes in Be Careful What You Wish For: Open Source and Off-Shoring: I am bemused by folks who can simultaneously cheer the global spread of the Internet and the beneficence of the open source (OS) movement, and decry the offshoring of IT jobs. Whether they’re naive, or disingenous, or took Emerson a little […]
Intriguing tidbit that came across my desk from a Forrester newsletter… it led me, in turn, to BlogAds, which appears to be running a private-label ad network of top bloggers with quite a bit to recommend it. MercuryNews.com | 08/19/2004 | Company must now take steps to go beyond good by Dan Gillmor It’s also […]
It’s taken a few weeks for this to sink in: John Battelle’s post on Sell Side Advertisting (inspired by Ross Mayfield’s post on Cost Per Influence). Ross wrote: “An important facet of this format is the amount of user choice. Users decide what feeds to subscribe to and ads to block. Bloggers should be able […]
Courtesy of Mike Dierken we found Bill de hÓra’s “WWW cubed: syndication and scale”, in which he writes: The most advanced thinking that doesn’t involve throwing out the Web is probably Rohit Khare’s PhD thesis, which suggests an ‘eventing’, or push style extension to the Web model. An early example of this approach where the […]
A minor news item in the larger scheme of things, but the very fact the maneuver surprised me means I haven’t internalized what a fad it is to donate code. It doesn’t appear to be a full VoiceXML stack, nor is it the acclaimed ViaVoice desktop engine, but it’s a start nonetheless… The New York […]
Nick Wingfield has a compelling piece titled Taking on eBay on page R10 of today’s Wall Street Journal. His main point is that the dustbins of history are filled with those who tried to compete directly against eBay in the broad online-auction market; however, there are pockets of energy where vibrant challengers are able to […]
Jeremy Zawodny talks about the inevitability of search results as RSS that can be subscribed to, quoting Tim Bray: They’ve also done something way cool with their Google appliance; one of the bright geeks there has set up a thing where you can subscribe to a search and get an RSS feed. Well, duh. Anyone […]
Matt Haughey talks about the switch of the Creative Commons search engine (used to record the semantics of web page metadata) to use Nutch: “We flipped the switch last week and have been testing it ever since. Compared to the last version of our search engine, this one is blazingly fast to return results, the […]
A running joke is that Adam’s cellphone gets more and more positive comments as it gets more obsolete. It’s one of those long, flat Sharp ones — and since that form factor is dead and buried, no one’s seen one recently. This NYTimes article (by way of C|Net) talks about several retro trends in one […]
Interesting opinion/recap piece this morning on a perceived alliance of interest between libertarians and Christian millenariast (‘mark-of-the-beast’) folks to oppose RFID (specifically, when used for humans — no word on the privacy rights of cats and dogs :-) This piece is supposedly triggered by reading recent reader feedback mail about some RFID apps, including the […]