Jon UdellStrategies for Internet citizensLiveMesh and FeedSync: software above the level of a single device- May 30, 2008 When David Stutz left Microsoft, he wrote a parting essay that invoked a new kind of Internet-oriented operating system characterized by &8220;software that runs above the level of a single device.&8221; Tim O&8217;Reilly echoed that phrase here, and often used it to help explain what he meant by Web 2.0. The recently-announced LiveMesh is a nice ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/30/livemesh-and-feedsync-software-above-the-level-of-a-si... Drafting on bloggers- May 29, 2008 The word drafting has many meanings but the one I&8217;m interested in here comes from bicycling. When you ride closely behind another rider, you&8217;re drafting. The leader pushes the headwinds out of the way, and the follower doesn&8217;t have to push so hard. Blogging can work that way too. I thought of this when I reallized ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/29/drafting-on-bloggers/ In search of an ICS publishing component for Exchange- May 28, 2008 As part of my project in community calendar syndication, I would like to find a way to push an Exchange calendar to a web-accessible ICS file. Although that isn&8217;t a native function of Exchange, I&8217;m sure it can be accomplished by way of the Exchange API, as an add-in or a scheduled server process. For ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/28/in-search-of-an-ics-publishing-component-for-exchange/ Free online calendar publishing, part 3: Apple iCal- May 28, 2008 This post is part three of a series in which Ill summarize what I know about publishing calendars openly on the web, for free, using popular calendar applications including Outlook, Google Calendar, and Apple iCal. Apple iCal If you have a .Mac account you can publish your calendar there, but .Mac isn&8217;t free, and the purpose of this ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/28/free-online-calendar-publishing-part-3-apple-ical/ A conversation with Greg Wilson about doing HPC right- May 27, 2008 My guest on Innovators this week is Greg Wilson. We share common interests in collaboration and Python, but neither of those topics was the focus of this conversation. Instead, we discussed Greg&8217;s unique and somewhat curmudgeonly take on high-performance computing. In his view, the HPC industry has focused on achieving bigger and faster computation at ...http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/05/27/a-conversation-with-greg-wilson-about-doing-hpc-right/ |