The speculation/news surrounding an Amazon ad network is pretty interesting. I would definitely like to see what Amazon does in this space, and particularly what support they might lend to the developer community. I’d guess that a bunch of people will be watching to see what Amazon does here.
February 5, 2006
Web Two-Point-Oh-No
Tom Foremski: “Yes, it is official, the 14-year old programmers are back, that means concrete proof that we have a new dotcom boom emerging–but this time with an interesting twist.”
February 5, 2006
Visit the doctor… online
Healthcare IT News: “More than 5,200 Microsoft employees and about 100 doctors from Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle have teamed up to launch a pilot project that will reimburse physicians for providing non-emergency healthcare online. The 18-month pilot at Microsoft, which began Jan. 1, will begin testing a model for online doctor consultations.” [Via [...]
February 5, 2006
Book recommendations from Joe
Joe Wikert’s blog is one of my new favorites because he always has some interesting new book to talk about.
February 5, 2006
FON- interesting idea
I love the way start-up companies are forming these days. An interesting idea with a little bit of capital seems to go so much further than it did just five years ago. One example is FON. I had not heard of this previously, but apparently they’ve been building slowly for a while and now have a [...]
February 5, 2006
Superbowl prediction
Steelers, 27-20.
UPDATE- It wasn’t quite the high scoring affair that I anticipated. Congrats to the Steelers.
February 5, 2006
Are you an optimist?
Scott Adams: “While I’ve had some notable successes, the vast majority of things I’ve attempted have been flops. But I shake them off and keep on plugging. I always learn something from the flops that helps me later. For example, failing at my corporate careers made me a better cartoonist. And I fully expect that [...]
February 5, 2006
RSS versus e-mail
A VC: “And as much as I’d like to see RSS replace email, it’s just not going to happen overnight. RSS has to become brain dead simple to use.”
I actually think that RSS is already as simple to use as e-mail. What am I missing?
February 5, 2006
Designer tools in the works
eWeek: “In an interview at the VSLive conference here, S. “Soma” Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of developer tools, said the company is following up its Expression suite of designer tools with new designer tools for both its future Web services platform—WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), also known as Indigo—and the upcoming WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation).”
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