Entries from April 2008

April 26, 2008

When does FriendFeed replace your blog?

While posting some links today between Twitter, del.icio.us and creating a few short entries on my blog today, it occurred to me that I’ve been using FriendFeed the wrong way. The short snippets, comments and links aggregated from various services that I use or posted directly to FriendFeed could directly replace my blog. In fact, [...]

April 26, 2008

Ray Ozzie on Live Mesh

Channel 9: “Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect sits down with Jon Udell to talk about Live Mesh, a new technology and platform that enables synchronization and storage “to the cloud.” You’ll hear about the history of Live Mesh, how it has been influenced by Ray’s previous work on products like Groove and Lotus Notes. Ray also [...]

April 26, 2008

FAST now part of Microsoft

The news came out this week that the FAST acquisition is complete and that we will continue to support the FAST technologies on Linux and UNIX, as a separate product from SharePoint, for the forseeable future. This also means that for the near term If you’re a customer using SharePoint and you’re interested in FAST [...]

April 26, 2008

“Controversy was… not a byproduct of the strategy- it was the strategy”

Jonathan Schwartz has pioneered executive blogging and has done a great job of keeping Sun visible and relevant during a radical transition in many of their businesses. Credit should be given where credit is due. If McNealy were still at the helm no one would be talking about Sun anymore.

April 12, 2008

Shipping container prefab - not just for shipping stuff?

Treehugger: “Proponents of modern prefab are always lamenting 1) the strop that manufacturers throw when you ask for a house without old-school traditional charm, and 2) the problem of getting the house from factory to site. Converting standard 20- or 40-foot shipping containers into housing gets round both snags: the containers are already fabricated, and [...]

April 12, 2008

Firefox logo in space

Pretty cool Hubble picture (altered a bit) that resembles the Firefox logo.

April 12, 2008

GroupTweet extends group functionality for Twitter

Mike Gunderloy: “One of the persistent complaints about Twitter is that it doesn’t offer any sort of “group” functionality: messages from everyone you follow come in as a big heap, and anything you say goes to all of your followers. GroupTweet provides a solution for the second half of this complaint, by layering distribution groups [...]