Entries from December 2005

December 31, 2005

Jarvis on White House web site “bugs”

Jeff Jarvis: “It is an issue only with the tin-hat society.”
A classic case of the ignorance of the media. The people writing the stories don’t know how web sites work and how common this practice is.

December 31, 2005

A good year end milestone

My contributions to the DSI book are all submitted. We’re in review and edit mode from here on out and things should move pretty fast. There is a lot to do, but the heavy rocks have been lifted. Thanks to Jim Minatel for his support and patience. Working with Jim has been a great experience- [...]

December 24, 2005

Ray Ozzie- “looking forward”

Ray Ozzie: “If 2005 was a year of “changeâ€? for me, 2006 will be a year to “buildâ€?.  Much of what I seek to accomplish here is already clear; some is emergent thinking.  As plans gel, I very much look forward to interacting with some of our largest customers so they can play an active [...]

December 24, 2005

More predictions on Google

Interesting predictions this year, especially surrounding Google. In this one, Dave predicts Google’s Hailstorm.

December 24, 2005

Blogging’s naked truth

InformationWeek has named Robert Scoble as a change agent that will affect IT in the coming year. He’s changed Microsoft to be sure- I’ll be interested to see what he does in 2006.

December 24, 2005

Advances in PowerPoint

Brendan Busch: Welcome to PowerPoint 12!

December 24, 2005

Xbox Live Diamond Card

There’s a perks program for Xbox Live users- check it out.

December 23, 2005

Google and AOL- what’s the deal?

John Battelle: “Er, you’ve been an AOL partner - in a very major way - for more than five years. And you’re NOW just getting around to this? AOL has never talked to Google about redirects? Indexing non HTML content? Robots.txt? I find that, well, hard to believe. Something is not quite adding up.”
While Google [...]

December 23, 2005

Xbox/Atari 3600 Mod

Looks like fun- but I wouldn’t want to risk it on my box.

December 23, 2005

Indie blog search dead?

Jason Calacanis: “Half of the indie blog search engines will shut down, go out of business, or just stagnate as the major portals take over this space.”
A bunch of Jason’s predictions seem like “look at how smart I am for selling to AOL”, but this one really resonates. There is just no need or demand [...]