Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0 beta and del.icio.us- June 29, 2005 Yahoo launched My Web 2.0 in beta today and while I don't have time right now to pontificate on the larger meanings (take a look at John Markoff's piece in today's NYT for that), my first thought was, "cool! but gosh, I've put all this effort into tagging and sharing stuff in del.icio.us already. . . . " It didn't take long for me to realize that since you can import RSS feeds into My Web 2.0 (very nice, Yahoo folks), and del.icio.us generates an RSS feed of my stuff, then I could just import.http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001507.html IT solutions for outdoor grilling- June 29, 2005 Since we're approaching the pinnacle of grilling season with the 4th of July holiday, it only seems appropriate to take a short break from enterprise IT and point to my friend and neighbor Andrew Leonard's piece in Salon's "Object Lust" series. This week, Andrew writes lovingly about the Maverick Remote-Check Thermometer that I gave him a while back (or, as he says of the Remote-Check, it was "provided to me by a high priest of the digital age." That is a real compliment from a man who works.http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001506.html Those low-down-can't-post-my-podcast to iTunes blues- June 29, 2005 Sigh. I spent part of my evening manually typing up an RSS feed for my CTO Connection podcasts (1, 2) containing all the extended RSS stuff in the Apple iTunes podcast spec, and this is my reward: I guess I'll try again in the morning. Update: 8:30am PT: Still having "technical difficulties." I tried at 6am also. Update: 7:15pm PT: Finally got it through! (after failing all day) We'll see ifwhen it shows up in the directory.http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001505.html Asterisk, open source telephony, and the Clash- June 28, 2005 My InfoWorld column this week ("Open source calling") focuses on Asterisk, the open source PBX solution that we reviewed in InfoWorld earlier this year (very positively). Thank goodness IT and telco folks now have an open source solution that can do battle with the big boys -- we've all been suffering from big vendor lock-in for a long time now when it comes to phone systems. By the way, the headline and "dek" (what we call the subheadline in the biz) is an incredibly strained reference to...http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001503.html Podcasts from Syndicate conference last month- June 28, 2005 I'll admit -- I have fallen significantly behind on producing the third of my CTO Connection podcasts. You can listen to Jon Williams, CTO of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, or Mike Dunn, VP of Hearst Interactive Media if you haven't listened to the old ones. I do have a raw interview already in the can with Dave Simon, IT Director for the Sierra Club -- expect that one reasonably soon. In the meantime, I could at least point you to some other audio, right Mark Chernesky (Web...http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001501.html Microsoft, Longhorn, and RSS: I'm having IE4 flashbacks!- June 28, 2005 Steve Rubel's recent post ("What default feeds will IE7 and Longhorn carry") made me think about my experience back in 1997 at CNN.com and CNNSI.com when IE4 was released with the Active Desktop driven by CDF, a syndication format now in the dustbin of history (along with ICE). CDF wasn't RSS, but it also wasn't that different conceptually. It's a bad analogy from a technical purity standpoint, but if you don't remember Active Desktop, think of it as Pointcast built into the OS and driven by..http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/001499.html |