Archive for September, 2005

On the Media

Monday, September 19th, 2005

I just discovered On the Media. You have to love any outfit that attempts to keep the media H-O-N-E-S-T.

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ClearBoard

Monday, September 19th, 2005

If ClearBoard works as advertised, it’s easily worth the $100 price of admission. Try it, then (please!) let me know what you think.

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Writely — Shared Web Editing

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

I’m experimenting with Writely, a web service that allows multiple users to easily collaborate on the same document across the Internet. It’s really easy, and (at least for now) FREE. This will be big.

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SPARQL Query Language

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

The goal of SPARQL is to have a powerful yet EASY way to specify a database query. Very cool stuff.

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Two Billion, and Counting

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

We’ve either hit the two billion mark for number of mobile phone subscriptions, or we will in the next sixty days.

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Avian Flu: 55 pct. Mortality Rate

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Avian flu is a clear and present danger to civilization as we know it. ABC News has an informative (long) article by Brian Ross. Read it!

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Is JavaScript the Next PERL?

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Greg Wilson predicts in Scripting Languages: Into the Future that JavaScript could become the dominant scripting tool within five years.

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Memeorandum

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Since we don’t have enough time to read everything, a service like Memeorandum is very cool.

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MBA Toolbox

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Dr. Leon Winer’s MBA Toolbox is packed with useful information. Leon Winer happens to be Dave (Scripting News) Winer’s dad

BizWeek Best of the Web

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

The Business Week list Best of the Web is darned good. In the list they point to a small number of blogs. It’s a reasonably well-considered selection. I need to check out some great sites I’ve been missing.

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Revolution

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

The Xbox 360 is coming by Christmas; Sony’s Playstation 3 is slated for spring 2006. I had assumed Nintendo’s Revolution was dead meat, because it will (we think) be released after Playstation 3. But not so fast.

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Annotated New York Times

Friday, September 16th, 2005

Not sure how, but until now I’ve managed to ignore the Annotated New York Times by BlogRunner.

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