Micah's WeblogThe life of a minor minor prophet, not the rockBeta in the Age of the Internet- August 7, 2004 Jeremy Zawodny write: Looking beyond Gmail, Friendster has been in Beta since the beginning of time, but they have well over 6 million users now. Technorati was in beta for a quite a while, but recently dropped that label just before being launched into the media spotlight by CNN and the DNC. I suspect that if anyone even notices the Beta label anymore, they don't think twice about it. If the company was willing to put their service in front of millions of users, how likely is it that they're..http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002315.html Joel on Rich Internet Applications- August 3, 2004 Joel Spolsky wrote (a month ago, I'm falling behind): The Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group is working on extending HTML4 forms to make Web applications work better. In the previous rounds of HTML enhancement, the world's great graphic designers (like Jeffrey Zeldman) made the most noise and got us things like CSS which allow the kind of pixel-perfect page layout that the marketing people like, done in an intelligent way that separates content from presentation. Kudos. They...http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/06/17.html Good Talks are coming and I'm leaving- August 3, 2004 Agh! What am I doing going on vacation! I'm going to miss two excellent talks. First BayCHI is putting on a presentation about Rich Internet Applications with presentations by Macromedia, OddPost, and Lazlo and the WebGuild is hosting a talk by Adam Trachtenberg, on Developing Applications on the eBay Platform with PHP.http://www.alpern.org/weblog/2004/08/02.html#a846 What is Google building- August 3, 2004 Jon Udell wrote: Dare Obasanjo wondered, over the weekend, What is Google building He wrote: In the past couple of months Google has hired four people who used to work on Internet Explorer in various capacities especially its XML support who then moved to BEA; David Bau, Rod Chavez, Gary Burd and most recently Adam Bosworth. A number of my coworkers used to work with these guys since our team, the Microsoft XML team, was once part of the Internet Explorer team. It's been interesting chatting..http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/07/25.html#a1047 TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag Wavers- August 3, 2004 Washington Post: "if a programmer or an engineer with a bright idea has to go to Washington, hat in hand and lawyers in tow, to request permission to sell a better product -- and is then told "just wait awhile" -- we are on our way to suffocating innovation in this country. "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29428-2004Jul31_2.html |