Windows Vista release

Mini-Microsoft: “Slip!”

WCF and Atlas(t)

Steve Maine: “This release of Atlas ships with some WCF extensions that let Atlas browser clients seamlessly communicate with WCF services — no SOAP required.”

Joel on Reddit

Joel Spolsky: “The main idea is to share interesting links from around the Internet with other Joel on Software readers and with me. Anything is fair game… post whatever you want, but use your voting power to vote for things you found interesting (and vote down spam, duplicates, and boring things). If all goes well, [...]

Anil Dash @ MIX06

Anil Dash on blogging as a revolution: “No it ain’t. It’s just a tool.”
Anil had an interesting take on blogging that’s refreshing for those of us that deal with real enterprise customers that focus on what it takes to deploy software and manage it over time. He says that you want to be “cool” enough [...]

Quotes from MIX06

Marc Canter to MySpace: “Open up your APIs.”
Michael Arrington: “eBay is a Web 1.0 company.”
Definitely an interesting conversation so far.

PS3 and Linux

Linux Devices: “Sony President Ken Kutaragi confirmed that the Playstation 3 (PS3) has been delayed, at a press conference in Tokyo earlier this week. Kutaragi additionally confirmed that the gaming console will ship with an upgradable 60GB hard drive pre-installed with Linux.”
So now the PS3 is a Linux-based computer with digital video editing capabilities? There [...]

MIX06 information

I’m leaving for MIX tomorrow, but I ran across a wiki with information on the conference from various feeds and information to help people make connections with rides, rooms, events, and other people at the conference. I’ll be watching this tonight and tomorrow as the event kicks off tomorrow night…

Open Source- Not just for building software anymore

The Economist has an interesting article on the evolution of open source businesses and business models. Here’s an excerpt:
The “open-source� process of creating things is quickly becoming a threat—and an opportunity—to businesses of all kinds. Though the term at first described a model of software development (where the underlying programming code is open to inspection, [...]

Apple Riche

TechDirt: Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows
This article really screams “bubble” to me, but I know that Woz is widely respected so maybe I’m misreading this. The timing just seems a little strange to me given this recent hype bubble. As Calacanis says, maybe this is just a little “frothy”.

My schedule at MIX06

I blocked out my schedule at MIX and made my profile available to enable the scheduling of meetings through the Meeting Point tool. Here’s a summary of my schedule for sessions (if I make it to half of these I’ll be surprised). If you’re going to MIX and would like to meet, please leave a [...]